Governance

Alongside early warning systems, public messaging and longer-term measures such as urban greening to reduce temperatures, governments need to do far more to help people stay cool when extreme temperatures hit.

Property flood resilience (PFR) measures could play a far greater role in helping communities adapt to rising flood risk across the UK, but major gaps in evidence, public understanding and long-term performance data continue to limit uptake.

As climate change intensifies across Southeast Asia, the institutional capacity of governments to translate climate commitments into coordinated policy and funded action has never been more critical.

When a major disaster strikes, countries and organisations either have to raid their health, education and social spending budgets, take on more debt or rely on slow and unpredictable humanitarian aid.

Fiji is moving to standardise how disaster risk is understood and managed nationwide, following the validation and pilot testing of a new Risk Profiling Methodology designed to guide planning, investment, and resilience-building across sectors.

For decades, cooling strategies have relied heavily on air conditioning, but this approach is increasingly strained by rising temperatures and growing energy demand.

The Arctic has reemerged as a dynamic yet unsettled governance arena.