Join the high-level virtual launch of the UNDRR–ISC Hazard Information Profiles (HIPs) 2025 update – a vital tool for building a safer, more resilient world.
Date: 18 August, 8:00-9:00 UTC
Format: Online (Zoom)
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The 2025 edition of the Hazard Information Profiles (HIPs) provides a comprehensive, science-based overview of 281 hazards relevant to disaster risk reduction – from floods and wildfires to pandemics and cyber threats.
It reflects a major shift toward a multi-hazard understanding of risk – recognizing that hazards often interact, cascade, or occur together in ways that intensify their impacts.
With contributions from over 330 experts across 150+ organizations, the HIPs are a trusted reference for governments, agencies, researchers, and practitioners worldwide.
The UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profiles Steering Group was chaired by Virginia Murray, Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction at Public Health England, and a member of the CODATA Executive Committee.
CODATA is now working with UNDRR and other partners to ensure that the HIPs are made more readily reusable in software-based solutions and services following current good practice and the recommendations made in ‘10 Simple Rules for Making a Vocabulary FAIR’. This means making them available online in a way that facilitates the referencing of individual HIPs by means of a unique, persistent and resolvable identifier, and encoding the semantics and structure of the HIPs in a standardised way (using SKOS, the W3C’s standard for describing such concept schemes). This makes it easier to use the HIPs in disaster events and loss accounting databases in a consistent way, streamlining disaster-related statistics. Furthermore, their publication in a canonical, machine-readable form, and their increased uptake in disaster-related data, will make it easier for the HIPs to be used in the training of LLMs. Equally importantly, the machine actionability process will clarify the usage rights of the HIPs, encouraging innovation in research, administrative, operational, and commercial sectors.
Read more about the HIPs and CODATA’s involvement here.