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A group of five children from a village in Pakistan playing in the green field.
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The role of businesses in keeping children safe from disaster & climate impacts in East Asia Pacific

The Asia-Pacific Consultation brought diverse business networks together to explore how the private sector can support resilience of children and their families
United Nations Children's Fund (Global Headquarters, New York)
Tourists traverse the side of a road eroded by floods in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand
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Climate extremes make NZ’s supply chains highly vulnerable – it’s time to rethink how we grow and ship food

Over the decades, New Zealand has centralised its food system and increased the risk that a single regional event could reverberate nationally. But it’s not too late to diversify and increase resilience across our food supply system.
Conversation Media Group, the
Research briefs

Supermarket shelves were empty for months after the Lismore floods. Here’s how to make supply chains more resilient

New research found that shortening supply chains will be vital to make regions more resilient to these shocks – as well as drawing on community efforts such as farmers’ markets.
Conversation Media Group, the
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A 5-step rapid approach to climate resilient investment planning

In the Solomon Islands, the approach combined short-term actions with low potential for future regret with long-term options for future climate conditions.
Development Asia
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Heatwaves, cyclones are impacting Indian, other Asian stock markets

Stock pickers in some of Asia’s key markets are being battered by a series of extreme weather events from heat waves to flooding, signaling the difficulties ahead as El Nino-related risks rise and climate change accelerates.
Times of India, the
ADB
Documents and publications
2022

Accelerating private sector engagement in adaptation in Asia and the Pacific

This working paper outlines how to scale up the private sector's involvement in climate adaptation and harness its financial clout, technical know-how, and ingenuity to help build climate resilient economies in the Asia and Pacific region.
Asian Development Bank
THE BACKBONE OF REGIONAL AND RURAL ECONOMIES: SMALL BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE
Documents and publications
2021

The backbone of regional and rural economies: small business and community resilience

This study assesses the impact of natural disasters to small businesses, using two case studies, the Townsville floods of 2019 and the ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires of 2019-20, as well as the role that insurance plays in the economic recovery of the regions.
SGS Economics and Planning
Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) for Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai Volcanic Eruption
Documents and publications
2022

Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) for Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai Volcanic Eruption

This is the Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation report on the January 15 eruption, providing estimated costs of the physical damages caused by the volcanic eruption and tsunami.
Tonga - government World Bank, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)

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