A new attribution study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) shows that such adaptation other than structural flood defenses has reduced economic losses from flooding by 63% and fatalities by 52% since 1950.

Traditionally, early warning systems (EWS) have focused on saving lives. While reasonable, this narrow framing often leaves potential co-benefits untapped.

Backed by a $250 million loan from the World Bank and implemented between 2016 and 2024, the initiative constructed a flood-defense system along the Can Tho and Khai Luong rivers to shield the city’s urban core.

This paper presents a data-driven methodology for quantifying the regional-scale benefit of seismic interventions that leverages the methods, tools, and language of causal inference.

On a narrow atoll barely rising above the sea, sits one of the most remarkable pieces of infrastructure in the world, not because it is the largest, or the busiest, but because of what it means for a country that might otherwise be stranded.