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The UNDRR ARISE Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies co-organized an event called 'Businesses on the Frontlines of Crises: Lessons Learned from Türkiye and Beyond' as part of the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks in Geneva.
UNDRR Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies (ARISE)
Properties exposed to flooding experience up to 50% slower price growth compared to unexposed properties.
Loughborough University
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2023
This report discusses the current landscape of adaptation financing, the role of the private sector, and the hurdles impinging on the finance flows from the said source.
Asian Development Bank
The private sector has a huge potential role to play in the achievement of Early Warnings for All, through leveraging the outreach of Big Tech and the power of Artificial Intelligence
World Meteorological Organization
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2023
This research highlights that increases in burned forest area across the western United States and southwestern Canada over the last several decades have been partially driven by a rise in vapor pressure deficit (VPD).
Environmental Research Letters (IOP)
Japan's Diet has revised legislation so that weather companies and other private businesses that pass screening can forecast floods and mudslides.
NHK World, Japan International Broadcasting
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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.
Development Asia
Testing improves and validates organizations' disaster recovery capabilities and identifies required changes to planning documentation and procedures.
CisionWire Info-Tech Research Group