Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the inaugural session of the International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (ICDRI), 2022.

• Heads of states from CDRI member countries including India attended the conference.
• India initiated CDRI as a global partnership of 27 countries. India officially launched the CDRI at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit in New York on 23 September 2019.
• It is an international coalition of countries, UN agencies, multilateral development banks, the private sector, and academic institutions.

Aim: To promote disaster-resilient infrastructure. Headquarters: New Delhi, India (Interim Secretariat) Founders: 

• India,  Australia, Bhutan, Fiji, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Maldives, Mexico, Mongolia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom. (13 countries).
• The World Bank and the Green Climate Fund also supported the launch.
• As of March 2021, 29 members, consisting of 22 national governments and 7 organisations have joined CDRI.