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Lorenzo Guadagno, Capacity Building Officer, International Organization for Migration

With more than 250 million people living and working abroad, addressing migrants’ vulnerability is key to reducing the number of people affected by

Maarten Van Aalst, Director, Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre

That Bangladesh was relatively unlucky in this year’s monsoon is surely a measure of just how much progress the South Asian country has made in the

Kai Matturi, Concern Worldwide
The extreme rainfall, combined with construction on flood-prone areas, poor waste management leading to water blockages and human encroachment on creeks and wetlands that act as a natural drainage system for flood water all contributed to this disaster.
Shashanka Saadi, Head of Emergency Response Programme, BRAC International

Tropical storm Roanu hit Bangladesh on 21st May 2016. While it was not a big storm, the impact of Roanu surprised us all. Twenty-four people were

Colin Walch, University of California, Berkeley

Co-authored with Sabrina Stein, program manager at the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF)

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on

Erik Kjaergaard, Disaster Risk Managment Specialist, Asian Development Bank

While international media provided extensive cover of the devastating flooding in Texas, triggered by tropical storm Harvey, a much larger

Maria van Veldhuizen, Communications Officer at REEEP

While there is a wealth of climate information available, many decision makers struggle to find what they really need to make informed decisions for a

Erin Biehl, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Last summer, I returned home from vacation to find a deck full of scorched plants—apparently they just couldn’t take the heat during Baltimore’s

David Britton, Met Office

Whilst there may be similarities, weather warnings from around the globe rarely look the same and have often been developed in different ways. The

Walter Kaelin, Nansen Initiative, the

Disaster displacement ranks among the biggest humanitarian challenges of the 21st century.

In 2016, new disaster related displacements stood at 24.2

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