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Every week the PreventionWeb team of editors selects the latest news and research, reports and publications on disaster risk reduction – here is their selection of the latest must-read content.

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24 September 2021

China joins lower Mekong River countries to study impacts of climate change, dams

China and the countries of the lower Mekong River are teaming up for their largest joint study yet of the impacts climate change and hydropower dams are having on one of Asia's great waterways.

Voice of America

Update

27 September 2021

Long-term plans needed to protect Metro Manila’s most vulnerable from rising seas

In the Philippines and most Southeast Asian countries, traditional disaster risk reduction measures aren’t holistic and sufficient to deal with the warming planet.

Inquirer.net, Philippine Daily Inquirer

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27 September 2021

Children face life with far more heatwaves, floods, droughts and wildfires than grandparents

Children born over the past year[1] will on average face seven times more scorching heatwaves during their lives than their grandparents under original Paris Agreement emission reduction pledges.

Save the Children International

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23 September 2021

ADB approves $251 million for integrated flood management in India

The project will establish climate-resilient urban flood protection infrastructure, enhance stakeholders’ involvement in flood preparedness, and help ensure sustainable operation and maintenance of stormwater drainage systems.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

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Community announcement

24 September 2021

Join the 2021 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction campaign

Host an event to showcase DRR projects where international cooperation played a role. Share your event via PreventionWeb to feature it on the International Day site.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

A man and a woman use a kayak to travel up a flooded street in McGraths Hill, Australia (2021)

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23 September 2021

Remote sensing technology in claims assessment – lessons learned from the 2021 Australia East Coast floods

Remote sensing satellites can be an ally in building a more sustainable future, by providing granular information to insurers for real-time disaster monitoring with a view to improving the insurance industry’s risk understanding and intelligence.

Swiss Reinsurance Company (Swiss Re)

The city of Khartoum, Sudan flooded in 2020

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22 September 2021

What does it take to reduce flood and drought risks and build climate resilience in Eastern Africa?

The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) plays a strategic role in providing advanced information services such as flood and drought forecasts to all its member countries.

World Bank, the

Documents and publications

23 September 2021

Climate indicators and sustainable development: demonstrating the interconnections

The aim of this report is to demonstrate the connections between the global climate and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which go far beyond SDG 13 for climate action.

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23 September 2021

Water governance for climate resilient food systems

To mark the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit a group of 31 globally diverse practitioners and researchers, sound a clarion call for water resilience to be brought to the forefront of building resilient and sustainable food system.

International Union for the Conservation of Nature

Documents and publications

23 September 2021

Road map to community resilience: Operationalizing the framework for community resilience through the Enhanced Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (EVCA) v2

The Road Map to Community Resilience via EVCA provides step‑by‑step guidance on how to operationalise the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ Framework for Community Resilience using the EVCA process.