Documents and publications

This report examines opportunities to strengthen community resilience through locally led climate action, with a focus on empowering local governments and communities to address climate risks while improving alignment with national climate priorities.

This report assesses how climate change is reshaping human security in the Hindu Kush Himalaya, examining risks to food, water, energy, livelihoods and mobility, and calling for integrated, regional and systemic adaptation responses.

This study provides the first global, country-level picture of future housing construction demand and its associated costs and identifies where the needs for resilient construction are most urgent.

This study examines the relationship between flood exposure, coping behavior, and vulnerability to poverty in rural Bihar, one of India’s most flood-prone regions.

This brief examines both the escalating human rights crisis and the binding international legal obligations that apply as climate-driven sea level rise intensifies.

This paper presents a framework for disaster communication capacity development that combines audience research, engagement and scenario-based vulnerability analysis to address barriers to accessing, understanding and acting on hazard information.

This study advances an equity-centered approach by centering informational equity as an underexamined dimension of disaster vulnerability. Findings show informational inequities emerge from systematic misalignments across the risk communication ecosystem.

The LRP 2026 aims to respond holistically to the multiple crises facing Lebanon including residual humanitarian needs in conflict affected areas and presents an appeal of $1.62 billion to support coordinated interventions across nine sectors.

The WMO State of Global Water Resources Report shows that the water cycle has become more erratic and unpredictable, swinging between too little or too much. The past seven years have seen the fewest rivers with “normal” flows since 1991.

This report presents findings from a survey of 3,700 U.S. adults on disaster preparedness. Most respondents are concerned about natural disasters, but few feel very prepared, with cost identified as the leading barrier to preparedness.

This report draws on a survey of 1,300 stakeholders assessing 28 global risks. Large-scale war, AI and frontier technologies gained prominence, while climate change inaction remained the most important global risk.

Paper assesses 16 community resilience outcomes among flood-vulnerable people in Bangladesh. Vulnerability mapping, community participation and precautionary measures scored highest; NGO support, DRM awareness and post-disaster health safety scored lower.

The Heat Impact Assessment (HIA) Framework as a strategic instrument to strengthen heat risk management in the country.

This survey is a nationally representative survey of adults in the UK, carried out in order to understand what people think about different types of emergencies, and what steps – if any – they have taken to prepare for them

This brief identifies key policy implications based on a systematic review of 49 studies covering 53 nature-based interventions across 26 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) worldwide.

Drawing on experience from Armenia, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal, these lessons explain how strategic climate diagnostics can identify priority risks and how economic, fiscal, and financial analysis can build the case for investment.

This report examines how extreme heat affects students, educators, families, and school systems and provides practical, evidence-informed guidance grounded in psychological science to help school communities respond.

The brief compiles information from various sources to provide an updated, consolidated picture and monitoring of El Niño's effects on global food security.

This study leverages the first long-term, sub-kilometer, sub-hourly observational network in equatorial Singapore (730 normal k meters squared" data-speech-attached="true" data-semantic-braille="⠅⠍⠘⠆" data-braille-attached="true" has-speech="true"> normal k meters squared" data-semantic-summary=" product with 2 factors" data-semantic-braille="⠅⠍⠘⠆"> normal k" data-semantic-summary=" identifier" data-semantic-braille="⠅">k⁢ meters squared" data-semantic-summary=" power" data-semantic-braille="⠍⠘⠆"> meters" data-semantic-prefix=" Base" data-semantic-summary=" identifier" data-semantic-braille="⠍">m 2" data-semantic-prefix=" Exponent" data-semantic-summary=" number" data-semantic-braille="⠆">2), with 122 rain gauges reporting 5 min intensities for 2020–2024 and 82 stations with hourly accumulations for 1980–2024, combined

This study proposes a new temporal merging method for seamless climate forecast information of climate extremes.

This paper shows that heat impacts emerge from the interaction of biological differences and gendered social roles.

This inside story examines how VESA groups in Ethiopia’s South Omo strengthened climate resilience, women’s leadership, livelihood diversification, access to climate information and more inclusive household and community decision-making.

This editorial uses the 2026 Gyirong–Rasuwagadhi rock–ice avalanche, debris-flow and flood cascade to argue for integrated transboundary warning systems linking monitoring, detection, impact forecasting and pre-authorized action.

This study shows how nature-based solutions help residents of an informal settlement in Fiji adapt to growing climate risks. Located in a coastal area, the community faces recurring flooding, sea-level rise, extreme heat, and variable rainfall.

This report documents an integrated DRR field mission conducted by the GRMI in Katcha Ward, Niger State, on 10 July 2026. The mission combined agricultural support with geospatial flood risk assessment to better understand the exposure of rice farmers.

This guidance note provides a framework for evaluating whether climate and disaster risk models are fit for climate and disaster risk financing decisions, covering model transparency, hazard, exposure, vulnerability, loss and uncertainty assessment.

This report examines how extreme heat is affecting women informal workers in Thailand. Based on surveys, workshops and focus groups, it finds major impacts on health, income and livelihoods, and highlights locally identified resilience solutions.

This case study explores how climate-related mobility and flood risk intersect in Dakar, highlighting community-based disaster risk reduction, nature-based solutions, flood governance reforms and lessons for evidence-based planning.

This case study explores community-based responses to climate mobility in Moundou, Chad, highlighting water management committees, mediation training and women-led initiatives that strengthened social cohesion, conflict prevention and resilience.

This practitioner’s brief synthesises lessons from GIZ’s Global Programme on Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change and provides recommendations on governance, data, financing, rights-based approaches and cross-regional learning.

This paper calls for a shift from Bridge Management Systems to Bridge Resilience Systems, integrating disaster governance, critical infrastructure, climate risk, ecosystem management and connectivity to protect essential functions during disruption.

This case study examines the current state of the heat early warning system in Pakistan, including how heat risk is understood and monitored, and how warnings are issued, communicated, and acted upon across institutions.

This report documents how the Urban Climate Resilience Program strengthened extreme heat resilience in Greater Western Sydney through community action, applied research, policy influence and cross-sector partnerships from 2023 to 2026.

This case study examines the current state of Senegal’s heat early warning system, including how heat risk is understood and monitored, and how warnings are issued, communicated and acted upon across institutions.

This study examines community-based disaster management in Chandpur, Bangladesh, identifying six capacity-building initiatives and 13 governance- and society-driven challenges affecting sustainable community resilience.

This paper develops an Adaptive AI-Enabled Drought Risk Reduction Framework, showing how AI can improve drought governance, water allocation and anticipatory decision-making when supported by trusted institutions and reliable data.

This article compares typhoon communication in the Philippines and Vietnam, showing how political structures, corruption, propaganda and media control shape disaster visibility, often prioritising regime preservation over public safety.

This article investigates forces shaping what becomes visible during typhoon disasters across contrasting regime types and develops a model examining how political structures and propaganda machinery determine information flows when disasters strike

This updated Disaster Management Reference Handbook provides a comprehensive picture of Fiji’s disaster management architecture, socioeconomic vulnerabilities, hazard profile, and logistical infrastructure.

This study examines nine case studies across the Mediterranean to analyse different mechanisms that contribute to institutional mainstreaming of nature-based solutions (NbS) for climate resilience in urban and peri-urban areas.

This landscape report examines how misinformation, disinformation and other forms of information pollution are affecting climate action and responses to climate-related disasters, and how different actors are responding.

Using social media and meteorological data, this study quantifies the mismatch between physical heat exposure and public emotional responses from 2010 to 2024 in China.

By analysing global subnational net migration data, this study shows that associations between climate extremes and migration vary by hazard type, timing, consecutive events, income level and pre-existing migration context.

Combining Global Fire Atlas records with Afrobarometer surveys of more than 100,000 people in 34 African countries, this study shows that people living close to wildfires are more likely to vote, contact local councillors and attend community meetings.

This study assesses earthquake-related tsunami hazard across the Anguilla bank through numerical simulations of selected seismic rupture scenarios.

This paper examines the relationship between climate risks and education through a systems lens, combining evidence on impacts with an analysis of policy frameworks and implementation constraints.

This policy brief draws on a mixed-methods study comprising a national survey of 1,097 adults in England and semi-structured interviews with 29 heat risk communicators.

This report compiles global best practices on industrial hazard mitigation and management, drawing lessons from major incidents, safety frameworks and international experience to strengthen risk-informed governance, preparedness, resilience and safety.

Study assessing the exposure of Brazil’s Social Assistance Reference Centers (CRAS) to flood and landslide risks. By integrating IDCRAS and BATER data, it identifies vulnerable facilities and supports preparedness, contingency planning and DRR.