Inclusion

The World Bank Group has unveiled a new plan that calls for $16 billion in funding to help African people and countries adapt to climate change and build up the continent’s resilience to climate shocks. 'Sub-Saharan Africa is highly vulnerable to climate shocks, and our research shows that could have far-ranging impact on everything,' said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim...

Z-EVET, a project launched by AFAD’s local office in Kütahya, will allow the authorities to store information about the needs and permanent addresses of disabled individuals in the area to be used in cases of emergency. Using educational materials customized for people with mental, auditory, orthopedic and visual disabilities, AFAD Kütahya provided basic disaster preparedness training to 445 individuals...

Governments meeting in Paris next week must agree a strong new deal to curb global warming because they owe it to the world's children, with hundreds of millions highly exposed to the impacts of climate change, the U.N. children's agency said...

Britain's Prince Charles has pointed to the world's failure to tackle climate change as a root cause of the civil war in Syria, reports Reuters. 'We were saying 20 something years ago that if we didn't tackle these issues, you would see ever greater conflict over scarce resources and ever greater difficulties over drought, and the accumulating effect of climate change,' he said.

With children still traumatized and families struggling to prepare for winter, UNICEF is helping to provide psychosocial support following the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Afghanistan on 26 October.

This document presents the national summary of the first-ever analysis of state level preparedness for climate-driven, weather-related threats facing all 50 states in the United States. It identifies states with considerable and significantly increasing

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hosted a meeting on the links between water management and DRR today, stressing that floods, droughts and cyclones have caused more than $1 trillion in damages and affected over 4 billion people since 1990. 'The poor and most vulnerable have suffered first and worst,' he told the second meeting convened as part of the UN High-Level Water and Sanitation Days 2015...

This paper aims to discuss possible adaptation policies and current climate change and development policy structures on human mobility. It presents available national policy channels for positive adaptation, as well as the ways in which proactively