Documents and publications

This paper reviews 130 studies on climate risks and real-estate valuation, finding evidence concentrated on flood-related physical risks, US housing markets and single-family housing, while highlighting research gaps on transition and compound risks.

This paper uses a generative machine-learning model to show strong evidence that global emissions since the 2015 Paris Agreement intensified Europe's recent heat extremes, including the high-impact June 2025 heatwave.

This paper estimates that epidemics were associated with an average annual loss of 17,549 health workers globally from 1990 to 2019, with the greatest burden in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and lower-income countries.

This factsheet, produced by IFRC in July 2026, summarizes expected El Niño impacts across Asia Pacific through 2027 and the preparedness and response activity already underway across the region.

This assessment examines climate hazards in Kamwenge District, highlighting increasing drought, heat and localized flood risks and their implications for refugee and host communities.

This report analyzes climate hazards and future projections in Terego District, Uganda. It highlights rising heat stress, unpredictable rainfall, seasonal drought, and localized flooding affecting rural host communities and refugee settlements.

This report provides a comprehensive spatial analysis of historical climate trends and future projections for Obongi District, Uganda. It evaluates key climate hazards—specifically seasonal droughts and flood susceptibility.

This summary presents downscaled climate projections for Madi Okollo District under the SSP2-4.5 moderate emissions scenario, evaluating shift patterns between the historical baseline (1970–2000) and mid-century (2041–2060).

This assessment examines climate hazards in Isingiro District, highlighting increasing heat, seasonal drought and localized flooding and their impacts on refugee and host communities.

The report assesses climate hazards in Uganda's Lamwo District, analyzing historical trends and future projections for seasonal drought and localized flooding.

This assessment examines climate hazards in Kyegegwa District, focusing on drought, flooding, rainfall variability and rising temperatures, and their impacts on refugee and host communities.

This report evaluates the climate hazard vulnerability of Koboko District, Uganda, a region hosting over 31,000 formal and self-settled refugees near the borders of South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

This report evaluates climate risks in Kiryandongo District, Uganda, where rising temperatures and erratic rainfall threaten over 165,000 refugees and local host communities.

This report evaluates climate hazards in Uganda's Kikuube District, where rising temperatures and unpredictable rainfall fuel severe seasonal droughts and localized flooding.

This assessment maps drought, heat, and flood risks in Uganda's Yumbe District to help guide climate adaptation and disaster planning for local communities and Bidibidi Refugee Settlement residents.

This climate hazard assessment highlights how rising temperatures, unpredictable rainfall, and recurring seasonal droughts and floods threaten livelihoods and food security for refugee and host communities in Uganda's Adjumani District.

This report examines communication and engagement for compound natural hazards in Australia, highlighting the need for two-way, locally grounded approaches to strengthen preparedness and resilience.

The Planetary Health Check is a yearly report on the state of our planet.

This study presents an AI-physics hybrid framework that couples five AI weather prediction models with Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF)-Urban Canopy Model (UCM) for high-resolution city-scale extreme wind prediction.

This bulletin examines how communities in Somalia are coping with a “double shock” drought, highlighting failing coping strategies, declining trust in official warnings, reduced aid, and the importance of supporting community-led responses.

This brief highlights Save the Children Nigeria’s Community-Led Early Warning Systems (EWS) and Anticipatory Action approach, which helps communities prepare for and respond to predictable hazards before they escalate into crises.

The Emergency Management Act 2026 establishes New Zealand’s framework for hazard management, preparedness, emergency response, recovery, governance, planning, essential infrastructure, compliance, and compensation arrangements.

This study explores the rationalities that have competed in shaping finance for loss and damage toward specific ends, and how the fund is designed as a result.

This study presents a novel five-step ensemble machine learning approach to improve predictive accuracy in assessing climate change impacts on inflow patterns and hydropower generation across seven dam basins in West Africa.

This study evaluates opportunities to enhance the Mali Red Cross Early Action Protocol (EAP) for riverine flooding by comparing global flood forecasting systems against the country's current trigger model.

This article extends debates at the intersection of infrastructure, adaptation, and vulnerability by exploring everyday practices of climate adaptation through people’s attempts to weatherize their houses during climate-related emergencies.

The report has been prepared upon request of the General Assembly in its resolution 80/137 on DRR, providing an overview of progress towards the goal, global targets and priorities for action of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030.

Power systems remain vulnerable to natural disasters that cause widespread outages. Leveraging outage records from recent large-scale blackouts, this study establishes an empirical relationship between daily nightlight-intensity loss and power outages

This publication details notable highlights from the Resilience Initiative Africa Project, which was implemented by UNDRR's Regional Office for Africa between August 2023–March 2026.

This report examines opportunities to strengthen community resilience through locally led climate action, with a focus on empowering local governments and communities to address climate risks while improving alignment with national climate priorities.

This report assesses how climate change is reshaping human security in the Hindu Kush Himalaya, examining risks to food, water, energy, livelihoods and mobility, and calling for integrated, regional and systemic adaptation responses.

This study provides the first global, country-level picture of future housing construction demand and its associated costs and identifies where the needs for resilient construction are most urgent.

This study examines the relationship between flood exposure, coping behavior, and vulnerability to poverty in rural Bihar, one of India’s most flood-prone regions.

This brief examines both the escalating human rights crisis and the binding international legal obligations that apply as climate-driven sea level rise intensifies.

This paper presents a framework for disaster communication capacity development that combines audience research, engagement and scenario-based vulnerability analysis to address barriers to accessing, understanding and acting on hazard information.

This study advances an equity-centered approach by centering informational equity as an underexamined dimension of disaster vulnerability. Findings show informational inequities emerge from systematic misalignments across the risk communication ecosystem.

The LRP 2026 aims to respond holistically to the multiple crises facing Lebanon including residual humanitarian needs in conflict affected areas and presents an appeal of $1.62 billion to support coordinated interventions across nine sectors.

The WMO State of Global Water Resources Report shows that the water cycle has become more erratic and unpredictable, swinging between too little or too much. The past seven years have seen the fewest rivers with “normal” flows since 1991.

This report presents findings from a survey of 3,700 U.S. adults on disaster preparedness. Most respondents are concerned about natural disasters, but few feel very prepared, with cost identified as the leading barrier to preparedness.

This report draws on a survey of 1,300 stakeholders assessing 28 global risks. Large-scale war, AI and frontier technologies gained prominence, while climate change inaction remained the most important global risk.

Paper assesses 16 community resilience outcomes among flood-vulnerable people in Bangladesh. Vulnerability mapping, community participation and precautionary measures scored highest; NGO support, DRM awareness and post-disaster health safety scored lower.

The Heat Impact Assessment (HIA) Framework as a strategic instrument to strengthen heat risk management in the country.

This survey is a nationally representative survey of adults in the UK, carried out in order to understand what people think about different types of emergencies, and what steps – if any – they have taken to prepare for them

This brief identifies key policy implications based on a systematic review of 49 studies covering 53 nature-based interventions across 26 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) worldwide.

Drawing on experience from Armenia, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal, these lessons explain how strategic climate diagnostics can identify priority risks and how economic, fiscal, and financial analysis can build the case for investment.

This report examines how extreme heat affects students, educators, families, and school systems and provides practical, evidence-informed guidance grounded in psychological science to help school communities respond.

The brief compiles information from various sources to provide an updated, consolidated picture and monitoring of El Niño's effects on global food security.

This study leverages the first long-term, sub-kilometer, sub-hourly observational network in equatorial Singapore to produce a high-resolution gridded rainfall reanalysis.

This study proposes a new temporal merging method for seamless climate forecast information of climate extremes.

This paper shows that heat impacts emerge from the interaction of biological differences and gendered social roles.