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In the Solomon Islands, the approach combined short-term actions with low potential for future regret with long-term options for future climate conditions.
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.
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.
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.
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
The report examines the frequency and distribution of natural disasters and analyzes their economic and trade effects, both at a macroeconomic and sectoral level.
The new law will require banks, insurers and investment managers to report the climate impacts of their businesses and explain how they will manage risks.
Back in 2014, CSIRO published ‘Australia’s Biosecurity Future: Preparing for future biological challenges’, which identified major biosecurity trends facing Australia’s biosecurity landscape, with a focus on an agricultural, environmental and marine
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
