Risk identification and assessment

This report is one of the main outputs from UNDP DDC's activities of the Africa-Asia Drought Risk Management Peer Assistance Network (AADP), funded by the Government of Japan, in 2011. It reviews the current drought risk management (DRM) institutional and

UNISDR today welcomed the full publication of the Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) and said "it provides us with the impetus for action to save the world from the worst that climate change can bring to our planet in the coming years."

'Our chapter was the only one by Working Group 1 in the report.' 'The main message is that there are already changes in extremes that we can observe. How sure we are with regard to these changes depends strongly on the considered extremes and regions,' said ETH-Zurich professor Sonia Seneviratne...

The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, today discussed with the Bangladesh Government the country's huge shortfall in cyclone shelters and the protection of the country's coastline from rising sea-levels at the start of a three day mission to Bangladesh where the cyclone season starts on April 1.

Sigma 2/2012:

This study reports on the worldwide economic losses from over 300 natural catastrophes and man-made disasters recorded in 2011 and the cost to the global insurance industry. It specifically analyses the catastrophes cost to society, the

Working Paper # 2012-07, March 2012:

This paper discusses a methodology that makes use of advanced probabilistic catastrophe models to estimate benefits of disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures, especially for low- and middle income countries, which have

Mayors and other representatives from some of Asia's largest cities are gathering for three days in Manila to focus on urban resilience across the disaster-prone region.

'It would be advisable for the government to first put in place a reliable and well-functioning disaster risk financing mechanism for frequent but relatively small catastrophic events before moving forward with the plans to deal with less frequent highly catastrophic events,' the World Bank report said...