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2023
This Synthesis Report (SYR) of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) summarises the state of knowledge of climate change, its widespread impacts and risks, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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2023
This nexus brief synthesizes the findings of recent publications on mountains and climate change, in particular IPCC Cross-Chapter Paper 5: Mountains (2022) and a related OECD Development Co-operation Working Paper.
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
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2023
This report presents the disaster impacts of 2022.
Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters Université Catholique de Louvain United States Agency for International Development
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2023
This briefing note aims to promote and explore ways that digital public goods can support disaster risk reduction.
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the
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2023
This study analyzed temporal changes in snow avalanches and examined the impacts of climate change on snow avalanches under continental snow climate conditions along the transportation corridor in the Tianshan mountains.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
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2023
This paper uses remote sensing data on forest fires and remaining tree cover to estimate the effectiveness of a project targeted at reducing fire incidences in twelve protected forests in arid Burkina Faso.
World Bank, the
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2023
This paper suggests that economic fragility and resilience against climate-related natural shocks are shaped by the elasticity of input substitution in resource-intensive sectors, the trade regime, and the property rights regime in nature-based assets.
World Bank, the
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2023
The objective of the assessment is to develop a model-based estimate of the direct physical damages to residential buildings (houses) and non-residential buildings caused by the event, and to evaluate the spatial distribution of damages.
World Bank, the