Climate change

Climate adaptation for disaster resilience and climate change as a risk driver.

Latest Climate change additions in the Knowledge Base

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Documents and publications
This paper estimates that the macroeconomic damages from climate change are six times larger than previously thought.
A Syrian girl at Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan.
Update
The economic damage wrought by climate change is six times worse than previously thought, with global heating set to shrink wealth at a rate consistent with the level of financial losses of a continuing permanent war, research has found.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Irrigation system on a field
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The world needs effective strategies to adapt to climate change, and how the world grapples with its effects can turn to Israel's innovative water management technologies and desert farming techniques as an efficient climate adaptation solution.
Climate Adaptation Platform
Logistics and transport of container ships and cargo aircraft with crane bridge in the shipyard
Research briefs
A new study led by the CMCC also highlights the possible effects on production and prices of agricultural commodities.
Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Mosquito
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The relationship between climate and malaria transmission is complex and has been the subject of intense study for some three decades.
Conversation Media Group, the
Hurricane winds battering a coast
Research briefs
A new study estimates that climate change could cost $38 trillion per year, but emissions mitigation and adaptation strategies could limit future damages.
Eos - AGU
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Documents and publications
This early action plan has been closely monitoring the climate situation in Afghanistan since January 2024 to assess the risk of drought conditions.
Field of dead corals, due to warming oceans
Research briefs
A recent study led by Koll on future projections for the Indian Ocean, published in Science Direct, projects marine heatwaves as increasing from 20 days per year (during 1970–2000) to as much as 250 days per year.
Science and Development Network

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