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This article proposes enhancing tabletop exercises. These exercises, designed to highlight needs and gather resources to resolve vulnerabilities quickly, can be improved with a new dual-track (or “dual-world”) approach, not known to have been done before.

Meteorologists say climate change and the amount of heat being added to the oceans make predictions based on the past less reliable

Compared to other forms of support, premium support directly reduces the price of insurance and has the potential to provide a more direct route to financial protection. However, the current approach has yet to deliver sustainable impact.

Climate change is forcing people to adapt to changing environmental conditions. But what really makes the difference is how they do it. The recently published Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 shows that only sustainable adaptation can succeed.

Five Central Asian nations – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan – reaffirmed their commitment to safe and resilient schools for children this week – with four endorsing the Comprehensive Safe Schools Framework.

The Locust Pesticide Management System developed by the FAO is an advanced digital tool designed to support countries to better manage and monitor pesticide stocks and equipment used for locust control to enhance preparedness.

The main objectives of the nation strategy and contingency plan are aligned with those of the Turkmenistan's agricultural goal to improve the sustainability of wheat production and resilience of agriculture in the country.

With over two-thirds of the world’s population expected to live in cities by 2050, new global data on the 1,000 largest cities highlights growing hazards and the urgent need for climate adaptation investment.

Temperature increases associated with human-induced climate change do not manifest as small, even increases everywhere on the planet. Rather, they result in more frequent and severe episodes of heat waves, as the world saw in 2024.

Analysis of geographically granular data is essential to identify vulnerable areas and optimize resource distribution.