Documents and publications

A practical, non-technical guide helping humanitarian workers keep health centres and schools cooler through low-cost, energy-free building strategies suited to hot climates.

This review examines how extreme heat affects women’s well-being and highlights everyday adaptation practices across Africa, Asia and Oceania.

This study investigates historical trends in heatwave characteristics across New South Wales (NSW), identifies regions with increasing exposure in recent decades, and assesses risks to vulnerable populations using a combined heatwave risk framework.

The report addresses the escalating climate crisis in Southern Africa, where the region has swung from severe El Niño-driven drought in 2023-2024 to devastating La Niña floods and cyclones in 2025-2026, affecting nearly 1.9 million people.

The study examines how older farmers (aged 60–69) in drought-prone areas of Buriram Province, Thailand, perceive and respond to drought risk.

The 2026 GPMB report finds that as infectious disease outbreaks become more frequent they are also becoming more damaging, with widening health, economic, political and social impacts, and less capacity to recover from them.

This publication explores how generative language models combine social media, news and weather data to detect disasters quickly and accurately, using satellite data to validate results from flood and wildfire case studies.

This review analyzes peer-reviewed studies to examine how risk communication strategies vary across temporal dimensions, hazard groups and intended purpose.