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Between 20–22 June 2026, the coastal regions of the countries bordering the Gulf of Guinea, particularly Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Nigeria, experienced exceptionally widespread and severe flooding following intense and persistent rainfall.

This working paper examines how Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten finance disaster recovery and why they make limited use of modern disaster risk financing instruments despite their high exposure to natural hazards.

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the spatiotemporal dynamics of disaster events, with a focus on water-induced disasters and their associated impacts across Nepal for the period 2011–2025.

This report captures the outcomes and impact of the Urban Climate Resilience Program (UCRP) in Spain between 2023 and 2026.

This report reviews the current state of extreme event attribution and the emerging field of extreme event impact attribution, examining how these approaches can improve understanding of climate risks and inform planning, policy and decision-making.

An assessment says climate attribution science has moved beyond asking if human-caused global warming is driving deadly heat waves, floods and wildfires. The focus is now on how severe future impacts will become as extreme events increasingly overlap

Monitoring is expensive and labor intensive. But it helps public health officials stop outbreaks.

This manual aims to strengthen the capacity of facilitators, local authorities and community stakeholders to conduct participatory climate risk assessments and develop locally led climate adaptation actions.

Forest fires will continue, meaning we need ongoing investment in prevention, land management and firefighting resources. But we also need to pay more attention to human behaviour.

A government program elevates some Louisiana homes at no cost, but skepticism and unanswered questions are slowing participation.

Firefighters, military personnel, police officers and medics mobilised to a simulated aircraft crash on 26 June 2026, as Fiji Airports Limited conducted its first-ever large-scale night-time airport emergency exercise.

Extreme heatwaves increasingly force power plants to reduce output, a problem often misattributed solely to nuclear safety. In reality, nuclear curtailment stems from environmental regulations preventing thermal pollution and reduced cooling efficiency.

In this study, the authors introduce the Schroders Capital Insurance-Linked Securities (SCILS) model that leverages projected climate proxies to estimate category-specific North Atlantic landfall rate changes for different global warming levels.

The main aim of the study is to identify, analyze, document, and improve indigenous knowledge and local practices for managing cyclone and storm-surge risks.

Sufficient sleep quality and duration are essential for people’s health and well-being, but hotter nighttime temperatures are making it harder for people to get the rest they need.

This report shows how disaster risk financing reaches – or fails to reach – frontline actors, and identifies practical ways to close the gaps that keep timely, adequate, locally led financing out of reach.

Using the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI), the study shows that hazardous heat is becoming more frequent, more intense and more widespread, with hotter nights, longer heat stress seasons and increasing numbers of people exposed to hazardous heat.

The following Standard Operating Procedures are intended to help catalyse and guide earlier humanitarian and development action to future ENSO-related extreme weather events.

For millennia, fire was humanity's greatest tool. Today, it’s one of our greatest threats. Recovering control will require learning from the past while confronting the political choices of the present.

A new paint job on your house could be an opportunity to make your home look – and feel – a little cooler.

This report reveals that supporting First Nations women in fire and land management is a critical, yet untapped, strategy for protecting Australian communities from escalating climate disasters.

Heavy precipitation becomes more intense with every degree the Earth warms. This has an impact on flooding.

This paper reviews resilience as the capacity to “bounce back” and introduce transilience as the capacity to “bounce forward” in the context of disaster risk reduction.

This research evaluates the operational utility of Fire Warnings—tactical National Weather Service (NWS) alerts issued at the request of local emergency management agencies—by examining how exposure and training influence practitioner adoption.

Early warning for all is not achievable without local power. The choice facing policymakers is clear: reinforce centralised systems that fail the most at-risk, or invest in locally led solutions that save lives, livelihoods, and dignity.

This report provides a summary of the state of the UK's climate in 2025

Already, tropical cyclones are peppering the Pacific and skipping the Atlantic, and U.S. temperatures are topsy-turvy.

Using a pandemic as central illustrative example of an emergency this paper merges the emergency management cycle with the socio-ecological model and offers a behavioural framework that captures the complex temporal and social dimensions of preparedness.

As El Niño intensifies, evidence from across the Amazon basin shows why Amazon wildfire prevention depends on Indigenous knowledge and fire governance built from the territories up.

This briefing warns that climate disinformation is spreading through European media and online platforms, undermining public trust, distorting debate on climate action and highlighting the need for stronger policy and regulatory responses.

This operational guidance provides direction for designing and implementing people-centred, inclusive multi-hazard early warning systems that effectively reach and protect mobile populations and other groups affected by changing locations or circumstances

The AER methodology guidance provides a practical, structured and learning-oriented framework to guide countries and stakeholders in conducting comprehensive and consistent reviews of EWS performance after hazardous events.

The likely impact of the expected El Niño on South Africa’s agriculture and food prices in 2027 is a major point of discussion among analysts and economists in the country.

Ocean tides push upstream along coastal rivers, in some cases reaching hundreds of kilometers inland. These inland stretches are known as tidal rivers, and they’re the scene of complex interactions between the river current and tidal oscillations.

Can a board game help children understand wildfire risk? Can an escape room teach them how to respond to a chemical incident?

This study compares media coverage of Spain’s 1982 Tous dam disaster, showing how national and regional newspapers framed the event through human impact, economic losses and growing attention to political and institutional responsibility.

The manual provides practical guidance for designing and implementing participatory climate risk assessments and locally led adaptation processes.

The Country Climate and Development Report: Fiji summary examines how climate change could affect Fiji's ambition to achieve high-income status by 2050 while identifying opportunities to strengthen resilience and support sustainable economic development.

Private equity firms are treating climate adaptation as a value creation tool rather than simply a sustainability issue, according to a paper from climate technology firm Unwritten.

This study examines associations between ambient temperature and hospital admissions for mental health disorders among children, adolescents and young adults, and to project future heat-attributable admissions under various climate change scenarios.

As summer temperatures climb, city agencies and community groups are partnering to protect workers against extreme heat.

This paper reviews the current status of artificial intelligence (AI) in assessing and predicting landslides, emphasising Malaysia and Vietnam landslides.

As scientists learn more about how climate change could trigger catastrophic flooding, wholesale collapse of food supplies and millions of heat-related deaths, there is a growing realisation that such risks need to be more widely understood and acted on.