Thailand
The first Asian Science and Technology (S&T) Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) was held at Bangkok in Thailand on August 23-24, 2016. The purpose of the conference was to discuss the key issues, challenges, needs and opportunities in application of science in policy making and share good practices from the regionFrom India, Union Minister of Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju, a UN designated DRR Champion for the Asia Region, addressed the conference.