The tiny country contributes less than 0.1 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions—but is experiencing the consequences of climate change firsthand.
The interplay of water, infrastructure, and danger drives home the central lesson of disaster risk reduction: there is no such thing as a ‘natural’ disaster. A natural hazard becomes a disaster only when people are placed in its path.
A new regional platform launched in Honduras is gathering lessons on disaster preparedness, evacuation and risk management in vulnerable communities across the Northern Triangle, helping strengthen evidence-based, people-centred resilience efforts.
Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR)
Recurrent floods have forced Juneau to confront a problem that communities around the world are increasingly facing: How do you prepare for a natural disaster when you know it will come back?
Hawaii’s Lahaina Fire killed over 100 people and destroyed thousands of buildings. California’s Eaton Fire triggered the evacuation of over 100,000 residents. Texas’ Smokehouse Creek Fire burned over one million acres.
Albania is strengthening its capacities to collect, manage, analyse and use disaster loss and damage data through the DELTA Resilience platform, with a technical training held in Tirana on 17 September 2026.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
An IRDR-UNDRR webinar examined the 26 August 2026 China-Nepal flash flood, highlighting cascading transboundary risks, monitoring and data-sharing gaps, and calling for a Himalayan Monitoring Centre, FORIN study, and stronger multi-hazard risk assessment.
Following a series of major disasters and inquiries that questioned New Zealand’s capacity to deal with them, the new Emergency Management Act 2026 is the most significant improvement in more than two decades.
Stretching across much of eastern England, the Fens produce a third of the country’s vegetables and support tens of thousands of jobs. Yet around 33% of the region lies below average sea level, while 87% is below the highest spring tides
