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⭕️ PM Modi, addressed the 5th International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (ICDRI) 2023
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❇️Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is a multi-stakeholder global partnership of national governments, UN , private sector etc

❇️India initiated CDRI as a global partnership of 27 countries at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York in 2019.
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❗️❗️Today it has around 40 countries

📌Two important initiatives related to CDRI

1️⃣Infrastructure for Resilient Island States initiative[IRIS]

2️⃣Infrastructure Resilience Accelerator Fund

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➡️IRIS initiative is a part of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) that would focus on building capacity, having pilot projects, especially in small island developing states. Launched by India, Australia, UK and Small island developing states
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➡️Infrastructure Resilience Accelerator Fund

It is multi-donor trust fund estblshd at Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt COP27 with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNODRR)
Around $50 million
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💸Fund managed by the United Nations Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office (UN MPTFO) to support global action on disaster resilience of infrastructure systems, especially in developing countries and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
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⭕️ PM Modi inaugurated the Global Millets Conference Shree Anna conference

📢To promote and spread awareness about the benefits of millets (Shree Anna) for the cultivator, consumer and climate.

➡️To make India as the ‘global hub for millets’
*Awareness
*value chain development

*Health and nutritional aspects of millets
*Market linkages, research and development
International Year of Millets' being celebrated in 2023.
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⭕️PM Modi addressed ‘One World TB Summit’ at Varanasi by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) Along with the Stop TB Partnership organization a United Nations-hosted organization
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📢Reaffirm that India has set a goal of eradicating TB by the year 2025
five years ahead of the global target of 2030.

📢Also initiatives like TB-Mukt Panchayat initiative to leverage the support of over 2.5 lakh gram panchayats to raise awareness about TB were launched
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Other 📢

*Ni-kshay Mitra Initiative to ensure additional diagnostic, nutritional support to TB patients
*Ni-kshay Digital Portal for TB patients

*TB caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis

*Moscow Declaration is related to end the TB globally by 2035

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⭕️ PM Modi inaugurates & addresses 3rd session of National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in New Delhi

✅️National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR)
➡️It was a multi-stakeholder platform constituted by the Government of India on 26th February 2013

➡️To facilitate dialogue, sharing experiences, views, ideas, action-oriented research & explore opportunities in the area of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).

➡️Based on Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

➡️Chaired by the Union Home Minister and the Minister of State in-charge of Disaster Management in the Ministry of Home Affairs

➡️Conference Jointly organized by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), NDRF,NIDM

✅️NDMA The National Disaster Management Authority apex statutory body for disaster management in India
Established under Disaster Management Act, 2005 with Prime Minister as its Chairperson

⭕️PM Modi addressed the 'No Money for Terror' Ministerial Conference on

💸✖️™️“No Money for Terror” conference was started in 2018, as an initiative of the French government, to specifically focus on cooperation between countries to choke terror funding.

🔅Earlier conference in Paris (2018) and Melbourne (2019), it is 3rd conference on 'No Money for Terror' (NMFT) Ministerial Conference on Counter-Terrorism Financing held in New Delhi, India

🔅Together representatives of 78 countries and international bodies attended it
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❗️❗️PM highlighted Dark Net and Private currency rising threat

➡️The darknet is a part of the internet that cannot be accessed through traditional search engines like Google nor is it accessible by normal browsers like chrome or safari.

➡️Private currencies are units of value issued by a private organization to act as an alternative to a national or fiat currency, eg Cryptocurrency etc

Conference also discussed abt FATF
FATF ?

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➡️FATF is the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog set up in 1989 out of a G-7 meeting of developed nations in Paris.

It is 39-member body representing most major financial centres in all parts of the globe
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It maintains 2impt lists
Grey list and Black list

⚪️Grey List
Countries that are considered to be supporting terror funding and money laundering are put on the FATF Grey list

⚫️Black List:
Those countries which support terror funding and money laundering activities are added in the list ,Countries in the list are known as Non-Cooperative Countries or Territories (NCCTs)

⭕️ India Energy Week 2023 “(IEW 2023), was organized at the Bangalore

➡️Discussed about ‘Dance to Decarbonise ' where renewable energy generated through dance was used to charge electric vehicles

➡️Global Biofuels Alliance
Alliance created under the leadership of India, it would've multi governmental & private stakeholders, come together in order to increase the use of biofuels, create more awareness about them
Right now, Brazil,India, & US decided to work on it.
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➡️PM also launched IOC UNBOTTLED initiative of Indian Oil Corporation

➡️E-20 fuel to 84 retail outlets

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