The Fifth World Landslide Forum and the final draft of the Kyoto 2020 Commitment

Abstract

Progress of the Fifth World Landslide Forum 2020 and the Kyoto 2020 Commitment for global promotion of understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk is reported in this editorial and also in the News/Kyoto Commitment of this issue following a series of report of WLF5 (Sassa (2017a) in Landslides 14 (3), Sassa (2017b) in Landslides 14 (4), Sassa (2017c) in Landslides 14 (5), Sassa (2018a, c) in Landslides 15 (3)).