Floods, storms, and wind account for large proportions of displacement compared to other disasters. Floods are the most frequent type of disaster whereas wind-related disasters constitute the biggest losses in terms of economic damage, displacement, and number of affected people.

Finally, UN entities can help realize improvements in prevention and mitigation through the UN Issue-Based Coalition on Building Resilience, including workstreams on health-DRR integration, risk analysis, resilient recovery, and disaster displacement.

Recent technology has advanced to aid predicting and alerting of disasters around the world which has resulted in early warning and evacuation measures as well as opportunities to react and prepare for incoming threats to countries.