WB
As the coastal cities of Africa and Asia expand, many of their poorest residents are being pushed to the edges of livable land and into the most dangerous zones for climate change. Their informal settlements cling to riverbanks and cluster in low-lying areas with poor drainage, few public services, and no protection from storm surges, sea-level rise, and flooding...
UNISDR AP
We mainly think about sea level rise and cyclone risks when we talk about Small Island Developing States but drought is also threatening thousands of communities. We need to make better use of weather forecasts for early drought warning. There is also a need for improved rain water harvesting and other community-based measures...
AlertNet
El Salvador, which suffered through three years of unprecedented damage from storms and flooding, now asks school children to do maths problems that help them calculate how high rivers might rise if a certain amount of rain falls over a certain number of hours...
