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Economics of DRR

Τhis theme covers economic analysis supporting risk-informed investments and better investment planning and financing strategies for disaster risk reduction. It also adresses post-event economic loss and impact assessments, cost benefit analysis and other DRR investment appraisal techniques, ex-ante economic impact assessments.

Latest Economics of DRR additions in the Knowledge Base

Rain clouds at the coastline
Update

The impacts of El Niño go far beyond water

While most attention surrounding El Niño focuses on drier conditions and water shortages, cascading effects impact food and energy production, air quality, human health and more.
World Resources Institute
Business meeting
Update

Seven guiding principles for preparing financing strategies for climate change adaptation in developing countries

As developing countries transition from planning to implementation in their National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes, a critical step is securing financing to implement priority adaptation actions articulated through the NAP process.
National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network
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Documents and publications

The economic commitment of climate change

In this study, authors use recent empirical findings from more than 1,600 regions worldwide over the past 40 years to project sub-national damages from temperature and precipitation, including daily variability and extremes.
Sand storm hitting the city of Basra in Iraq, 2022
Research briefs

Climate is one culprit in spread and growth of Middle East dust levels

Climate change is transforming dust storms—a natural phenomenon in the Middle East—into a more frequent and widespread threat to health and economies throughout the region, a new study shows.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
A Senegalese woman harvests crop from her farm
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Race to resilience in action: Strengthening climate resilience in Senegal through digital agricultural finance

In Senegal, the impact of climate change is acutely felt across its vast agricultural landscapes, where smallholder farmers – many of whom are women – face increasing vulnerability due to erratic weather patterns.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
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Documents and publications

Angola disaster risk finance diagnostic 2024

The Angola DRF diagnostic aims to support a better understanding of the fiscal impact of disasters and crises and in planning and implementing options to strengthen financial resilience for government, rural households, and micro- and SMEs.
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Documents and publications

Enhanced scenarios for climate stress-tests

This paper explores how a newly developed methodological framework for enhanced climate stress-tests can be used by central banks and financial supervisors to inform the design of prudential measures.
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Learning from past shocks to scale up disaster and climate resilience in Algeria

A study titled “Diagnostic on Climate and Disaster Risk Management in Algeria” provides the country disaster and climate risk profile, estimates the macro-economic impacts of disasters, and evaluates Algeria’s current disaster risk management efforts.
World Bank, the

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