This brief, developed by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office for Asia-Pacific: • Builds on early lessons from Cyclone Harold in the Pacific. • Examines ongoing prevention and preparedness measures at the national and local level in other high-risk countries. • Provides recommendations on how to address climate and disaster risk in an era of COVID-19. • Points the way forward with a massively reinvigorated localization agenda. The brief reflects the interventions and feedback from the 16 April webinar under the same title, which UNDRR co-organized with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).