OPINION: From COVID-19 crisis comes opportunity to rethink risk

Resource guides

• The business case for DRR
  Explore the economic, social and environmental dividends of investing in disaster risk reduction.
• Assessing and disclosing climate-related financial risks
  Physical climate risk has emerged as a prominent threat to the financial sector and the global economy. Understanding investments’ exposure to risk from climate hazards is a critical step toward building resilience.
• Building resilient bridges
  Disasters can damage or entirely destroy bridges and cause widespread destruction and social mayhem. But factoring risk into design and maintenance can help ensure the safety of the millions of people who cross bridges on a daily basis.
• Building resilient grids
  Disasters can impact electric grids with damaging economic, environmental, and public health consequences. Grid resilience can help ensure that power disruptions are minimal and do not affect critical services.
• Building resilient ports and harbours
  When disasters disrupt port operations, they can cause significant economic losses on a global scale. Adapting ports to a changing climate and investing in disaster resilience is critical to reduce the economic impacts from catastrophic events.
• Building resilient roads
  Access disruptions on roads following a disaster can cause significant social and economic losses. Risk informed infrastructure investment is critical to ensure the construction and maintenance of resilient road networks.
• Fragility and disasters 
  This collection analyses the nexus between disasters, conflicts and fragility.
• Half a degree matters to curb disaster risk
  The difference between 1.5°C and 2°C of global warming may not seem significant. But research shows that failing to limit global warming at 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels will significantly increase disaster risk.
• Understanding evacuation behaviour
  While evacuation saves lives, many people choose not to leave when faced with a disaster. These resources explore the multiple factors influencing the decision to evacuate.