The United Nations has launched a new Disaster Risk Financing Platform at the COP31 climate conference in Antalya, Türkiye.  The initiative brings together six UN agencies and aims to mobilise more than three billion US dollars by 2030 to help protect 75 million people and their livelihoods from climate-related disasters. It seeks to shift the focus from responding after disasters strike to making funding available in advance, allowing communities to prepare and act earlier. For more on how the platform will work, and what it could mean for vulnerable communities in Africa, we spoke to Mathieu Dubreuil, the World Food Programme's Global Lead Advisor for Disaster Risk Financing, from Rome.

<p>The United Nations has launched a new Disaster Risk Financing Platform at the COP31 climate conference in Antalya, T&uuml;rkiye. &nbsp;The initiative brings together six UN agencies and aims to mobilise more than three billion US dollars by 2030 to help protect 75 million people and their livelihoods from climate-related disasters. It seeks to shift the focus from responding after disasters strike to making funding available in advance, allowing communities to prepare and act earlier. For more on how the platform will work, and what it could mean for vulnerable communities in Africa, we spoke to Mathieu Dubreuil, the World Food Programme's Global Lead Advisor for Disaster Risk Financing, from Rome.</p>