Disaster losses

City Heat Solutions Calculator

HERA’s first-of-its-kind tool and analysis estimates how extreme heat affects economic output and mortality in cities around the world. It shows the likely impact on workers today and how those impacts could grow by 2050.

This report outlines the geography and scale of household energy burden across the United States of America, with particular attention to the impacts of extreme heat and cooling costs.

What's an accurate hurricane forecast worth?

FIU researchers developed an expanded economic model to measure the value of hurricane forecasts. They included injuries, evacuation costs and the long-term consequences of forecast errors into their calculations and found a single injury costs ~$133,066.

This report estimates the human cost of disaster displacement in Bangladesh and shows how this evidence can inform disaster risk reduction, recovery planning and investment decisions.

How will El Niño hit the world economy?

A blow to Indian production may push up global sugar prices, reckon analysts at Morgan Stanley, while copper mining could be disrupted in Zambia by drought and in Chile, in contrast, by flooding.

The study shows new methodology to estimate human costs of internal displacement using a life-year approach. Developed for researchers and practitioners, it gives a framework to quantify impacts of displacement to inform policies and investment decisions.

"Climateflation": As the climate breaks down, costs go up

Climateflation is expected to keep raising costs in the years ahead. Reducing emissions to net zero, limiting further warming and investing in climate-resilient infrastructure will be essential to ease long-term economic pressures.

Europe: €439 billion already lost to droughts

As Mediterranean countries face another summer of extreme heat, research led by CMCC examines the economic costs of prolonged drought exposure.