Regional authorities, experts working on disaster preparedness and adaptation to climate change, as well as the wider public can now access harmonized, region-by-region data on climate risks and their impacts for different warming scenarios.
This study uses co-design and household willingness-to-pay evidence to inform multi-hazard microinsurance for low-income Buffalo City households, proposing community distribution, public co-financing and rapid payouts; the design remains untested.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
This report examines barriers to climate adaptation finance, estimating annual costs could reach $1.2 trillion by 2050, with $460 billion deployment ready and $690 billion facing barriers including affordability, incentives, execution and finance.
This report assesses greenhouse gas emissions, climate hazards and policies across OECD and partner countries, finding emissions rising globally, many countries off track on NDCs, and calling for faster mitigation and stronger adaptation.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Building on long-standing hypotheses of a hurricane-fire interaction, this study assesses empirical evidence for hurricane-driven increases in wildfire activity along the Gulf Coast of the United States.
As temperatures rise and development expands, the number of homes and other structures damaged or destroyed by wildfires across the U.S. is on pace to triple by mid-century, my colleagues and I found in a study published.
