News and announcements

The Year 1 narrative report highlights progress in strengthening disaster risk reduction, early warning systems and transboundary cooperation across the Western Balkans.

The impacts of climate change are escalating, compounded by urban expansion into fire-prone areas. Eight cutting-edge technologies have the potential to revolutionize wildfire risk reduction strategies.

This paper aims to review and synthesise the current state of knowledge on NbS for FRM in Australia, with a particular focus on identifying key barriers, enablers, and future directions.

A pioneering study has revealed that by the turn of the next century at least half a million more people in the UK will be exposed to risk of coastal flooding – a 25% increase compared to now.

Climate models show warmer winters, with precipitation rates staying about the same but producing more rain and less snowpack, which leads to summer drought.

SLF forest fire expert Julia Miller joins us for an interview to explain why so many forests in Europe are burning, why the situation is not going to improve - and why such extreme events will become more frequent in the coming decades.

Millions of people in Australia are about to feel their phones buzz with a message and hear a loud, siren-like warning. It’s a preview of how the country plans to warn its population when the next bushfire, flood or cyclone comes down.

The European summer of 2026 has so far been characterised by exceptional heat and widespread dryness.

This report analyses how the energy sector can overcome challenges and build climate-resilient energy systems that safeguard livelihoods and underpin sustainable growth.

This solution brief looks at how community resilience action groups (CRAGs) in Bangladesh are strengthening local governance and promoted sustainable, long-term community resilience in highly flood-prone districts.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has had some bad press. However, AI is also showing its value as a transformative technology that could change the way we manage threats. One such threat is wildfire. Discover AI innovations in managing wildfire risk.

The protection gap — the difference between total economic losses and the share that insurance actually covers — is a widening, systemic risk. Here is why it matters, who absorbs the cost, and how catastrophe models can help bring it into view.

The state’s first Superfund research center is looking into how climate change is resurfacing industrial pollution.

Transportation resilience depends as much on coordination as infrastructure. Josh Rodriguez of AASHTO explains why effective preparedness begins long before a disaster occurs and how formal mutual aid transforms emergency response into planned capability.

This thesis examines how different forms and degrees of institutionalization of anticipatory action influence the effectiveness of disaster governance, conceptualized along the dimensions of timeliness and coherence of the Philippines and Bangladesh.

There’s no way to close off the open-air stadium where stars Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal are slated to square off.

This report constitutes a synthesis of field observations collected during the Greek scientific mission in Venezuela, published information obtained from international scientific organizations, governmental agencies, and the scientific literature.

The main objective of this policy brief is to offer evidence-based and concise findings, and policy recommendations to strengthen coherence between CCA and DRRM at the Provincial Level in Nepal.

This study examines how hazard intensity, exposure and vulnerability shape tropical cyclone mortality and direct economic losses worldwide, using globally recorded disaster loss data from 1990 to 2019.

This article critically reviews Pakistan's first National Adaptation Plan (NAP) and draws lessons from past major flood events, including the 2010 and 2022 floods, to assess the effectiveness of current flood risk management strategies.

Flash flooding has been tearing up communities across the U.S., with heavy downpours sending creeks and rivers rushing over their banks from Texas to Kentucky , across the Midwest and into the Mid-Atlantic states and the Northeast.

This policy brief examines Nepal's opportunity to leverage the Barbados Implementation Modalities (BIM) start-up phase to access the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD).

This 14-country African study finds that perceived climate impacts significantly boost public support for government action, meaning the challenge is translating existing demand into effective policy—not creating it.

This Power Presentation presents updates regarding the incorporation of displacement related issues into the Treaty for the Protection of Persons in the event of Disasters.

This policy brief examines the increasing challenge of disaster-related displacement and argues that the proposed Treaty on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters (PPED Treaty) should explicitly address the protection of displaced people.

This summary report presents the key insights from the technical briefing and a summary of the presentations and exchange among participants.

This study investigates the perceived impacts of extreme climate events particularly floods, heatwaves, and droughts on food security, public health, energy systems, and water resources in the Greater Accra Region (GAR), Ghana.

This study assesses cell broadcast alert messages in France, showing gaps between recommended practice and real use, and highlighting how clearer, more complete message content can improve public warning and protective action.

This two-pages resource brief provides concrete recommendations and entry points to incorporate displacement into the Treaty on the Protection of Persons in the event of Disasters.

This guide introduces the ongoing process to develop a legally binding convention on the protection of persons in the event of disasters (PPED) and explains why feminist and gender-justice advocates need to be paying attention.

Mountain snow and meltwater from glaciers in the Himalayas determine how much water is available for drinking, farming and hydropower for millions of people in India, Pakistan, Nepal, China and Afghanistan.

Most emergency alerts and warnings are not provided in languages spoken by Indigenous peoples, placing them at greater risk during fires, floods, and other disasters.

This study examines how rainfall forecast errors during Typhoon Khanun shaped public emotions online, showing that underestimated and overestimated forecasts can increase anxiety, confusion and fatigue in risk communication.

This article examines emergency communication in the Pacific, highlighting how national broadcasters are relied on during disasters but often lack the resources, infrastructure and formal support needed to stay on air.

This study examines how cultural worldviews shape support for climate and biodiversity policies in Japan, finding that biodiversity conservation may face less worldview-driven resistance than climate action.

More than 900 wildfires are burning throughout Canada, with devastating impacts for First Nations. Thirteen Nations remain under evacuation orders that have forced 2,182 people from their homes.

Climate-related disasters are becoming one of Asia’s most important economic and fiscal challenges.

This research article examines how intercity connectivity strengthens urban mobility resilience during extreme rainfall, using mobility data from 366 Chinese cities.

The Nueces River of South Texas flowed at twice the rate of Niagara Falls last week during the region’s second flood disaster in two years.

In anticipation of future flooding, Australia could combine traditional structural and flood mitigation measures, such as dams and levees, with nature-inspired designs.

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.