Collections of topic and resource guides

Airports are a key sector for which the potential impacts of disaster, natural hazards and climate change could be particularly challenging. Understanding and strengthening airport infrastructure is a critical step toward building resilience.

This collection compiles solutions implemented in LDCs to prevent disasters and reduce risk.

These are key resources to understand more on how climate change increases disaster risk.

Physical climate risk has emerged as a prominent threat to the financial sector and the global economy. Understanding investments’ exposure to risk from climate hazards is a critical step toward building resilience.

Working with nature and green infrastructure can improve the management of water resources and contribute to reducing risks associated with water-related disasters and climate change while restoring and protecting ecosystems.

As the pandemic exacerbated existing vulnerabilities, inequalities, poverty and exclusion also impaired efforts to contain the outbreak.

Technology can help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. From early detection to contact-tracing apps, patient triaging via AI, and robotic hospital sanitisation, technology solutions can help through all stages of pandemic preparedness and response.

From landslide to floods, from drought to extreme heat, deforestation drives disaster risk.