Kamal Kishore has been trying for more than 30 years to get the world to worry about disasters before they happen. He is a special representative of the UN for Disaster Risk Reduction and his message, repeated for years, is uncomfortable: he spends much more on repairing the disaster than on avoiding it. In an interview with EL PERIODICO, he also insists that the response to extreme weather cannot stay in the offices: he has to go from the admin…
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Kamal Kishore has been trying for more than 30 years to get the world to worry about disasters before they happen. He is a special representative of the UN for Disaster Risk Reduction and his message, repeated for years, is uncomfortable: he spends much more on repairing the disaster than on avoiding it. In an interview with EL PERIODICO, he also insists that the response to extreme weather cannot stay in the offices: he has to go from the admin…