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Women walking on Malo Island, Vanuatu
The main cause of the flooding is the improper disposal of rubbish. People do not throw their rubbish in the right place and it’s their carelessness that is blocking the drainage and causing the flooding
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Events in the stratosphere are making long-range weather in Northern Europe easier to forecast, researchers at LMU have discovered.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Two women Tea Laborers plucking Tea leaves in a Tea Garden in Hatton, Sri Lanka.
Smallholder farmers are embracing climate-adaptive agriculture, innovations and partnerships.
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
A family observes the aftermath of flooding on the banks of the Danube
The European Commission has today published a Communication on managing climate risks in Europe. It sets out how the EU and its Member States can better anticipate, understand, and address growing climate risks.
European Commission
A 7.8 earthquake struck Turkiye and Syria in February 2023.
Rapid population growth in disaster-prone regions concentrates people where recovery after extreme events is costly. Investment in resilience is crucial.
World Bank, the
A group of Indian women sitting in colourful dresses on the floor in Bihar.
The Sendai GAP aims to accelerate implementation of the Sendai Framework by substantially increasing resource allocations, activities and impacts of gender-responsive DRR and substantially decreasing gender-related disaster risk by 2030.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
How growing battles over real estate development and flood risk are playing out in one community on the U.S. East Coast.
Context
A farmer tends to his maize crop in Talquezal, Guatemala
A recently published feasibility study identifies potential disaster risk finance and insurance solutions that could provide basic financial protection at scale for family farmers in northern Central America.
World Bank, the

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