A biennial conference on disaster and risk reduction and climate change adaptation is held in Davos, Switzerland, as a global gathering, complemented in the years between with regional conferences hosted in different global locations with a regional focus.

The IDRC conferences promote the integral risk management approach – across subject areas, professions, and sectors – encompassing scientific understanding with business, policy responses, the media and citizen participation, encouraging stronger ties with adequate public-private partnership models and devising approaches for moving towards a more truly integrated way of thinking about disaster and risks.

Additional conferences and workshops dealing with specific disaster and risk topics may be organized in Davos or elsewhere. The conferences and workshops will provide solutions for effective and efficient global disaster and risk management and for climate change adaptation, which needs the involvement of all stakeholders of the public and the private sector.