Climate Change, driven by the burning of coal, oil and gas is supercharging our weather systems. While climate change affects all Australians, the risks are not shared equally. In the most extreme instances, areas may become uninhabitable.
This report outlines the top 20 most at-risk federal electorates to climate change-related extreme weather events, providing a brief profile of the top 10. The report also outlines the most at risk electorates for each state and territory.
The costs of natural hazards have risen dramatically over the last decades. Besides the escalating climate crisis, this rise in costs is largely explained by urbanisation in exposed, often flood-prone, areas.
Floods have caused significant losses in the past year – in Europe, Asia and Australia. Extreme weather, overflowing rivers and dams, poor drainage and urbanisation, have all led to increased property damage, lives lost and economic disruption.
WFP is making climate risk insurance solutions work for food-insecure populations. This annual report highlights WFP’s main achievements in the area of climate risk insurance in 2021.
With co-financing from a World Bank administered multi-donor trust fund (MDTF), the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company (CCRIF SPC) offers sovereign insurance for earthquakes, tropical cyclones, and excess rainfall.
