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The Colombian government has worked on legislative instruments to increase resilience of their health sector. With support from GFDRR, a technical team has been supporting Colombia in using innovative analytics to inform its resilience-building efforts.

The Americas Climate Challenge follows previous Challenges in Africa, the Near and Middle East and Asia, supporting 28 pilots to date.

By examining the link between disaster risk conditions in the host communities and the vulnerability of migrants, the report aims to highlight the potential of reducing risks by incorporating risk-informed development approaches.

By examining the link between disaster risk conditions in the host communities and the vulnerability of migrants, the report aims to highlight the potential of reducing risks by incorporating risk-informed development approaches.

This seismic risk profile of Colombia, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.

This publication argues that a health sector response to climate change is especially urgent in Colombia due to geographic vulnerabilities which impact the health risk to its people.

PLOS highlights recent studies published in PLOS ONE including one on an informal settlement in northwestern Colombia and a paper looking at how heat waves affect visitors to the Grand Canyon National Park. The authors give PLOS insights on their work.

The authors systematically examine in this study how landslide risks develop over a 24-year period from 1994 to 2018 taking into account three time steps, with respect to the citywide exposure and in particular with respect to different social groups.