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Displaying 15 of about 19 resultsThis systematization report seeks to briefly document and summarize the implementation of the 2020 Action Plan of the Climate Change and Resilience Issue-Based Coalition, identifying lessons learned and contributing to informing the 2021 Action Plan. This document is organized into four sections. The first section describes the coalition's Framework of…
Pandemie und Klimakrise haben viele Gemeinsamkeiten. Ursache ist jeweils die Naturzerstörung. Die Folgen sind global, langfristig, vielschichtig und verschärfen soziale Ungleichheit. Sie sind Ausdruck von Marktversagen, führen zu einer Rückbesinnung auf die Bedeutung des Staates und lassen sich nur multilateral lösen. Wenn die jetzt aufgelegten Konjunkt…
This study provides an analysis of the linkages between multi-hazard exposure, lack of resilience, resulting disaster risk with related loss and damage, sovereign debt risks, and the lack of investment into resilience building. The COVID-19 pandemic has come on top of the climate crisis, the existential threat of our time. Debt is pushed to new hei…
This rapid review looks at areas and population groups in Pakistan most exposed to the combined effects of climate change and natural disasters, food insecurity and malnutrition, and COVID-19. There are strong interlinkages between the effects of climate change and natural disasters in Pakistan, food insecurity, and exposure to COVID-19. Areas…
This Commission staff working document is the second edition of an overview of the natural and man-made disaster risks that the EU may face, prepared under EU legislation on civil protection. The aim of the overview is to capture the trends in the ever-evolving disaster risk landscape, discuss the major drivers shaping it, take a closer look at 12 selec…
In this paper, the authors summarize some shared characteristics of COVID-19 and climate change impacts and interventions and discuss key policy implications and recommendations. The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are complex existential threats, unpredictable in many ways and unprecedented in modern times. There are parallels between the scale an…
The current issue of UMID magazine presents European heat action plans and shows heat precautions in federal states and municipalities. Another focus is COVID-19: disease severity in the first wave, corona and the effects on air quality, wastewater monitoring, disinfection by means of UV-C radiation and the BfR corona monitor on risk perception in the p…
This report constructs its analysis of the future in several stages. First, it examines structural forces in demographics, environment, economics, and technology that shape the contours of our future world. Second, it analyzes how these structural forces and other factors—combined with human responses—affect emerging dynamics in societies, states,…
This study provides information to be used to raise the ambition of Georgia's NDCs and to consider adaptation targets for the Black Sea coast of Georgia. The study also highlights how supporting a Blue Economy could accelerate the implementation of adaptation measures required to reduce climate risks and contribute towards the region's socioeconomic dev…
This policy brief seeks to better understand the nexus between COVID-19, climate change/hurricane season and human mobility in the OECS region. The Eastern Caribbean region is currently faced with a dilemma: On the one hand, the region is struggling with the management of the COVID-19 pandemic which has necessitated extended State of Emergency peri…
This report discusses how communities across Canada are presently experiencing about $2B per year in damages from severe weather and residents continue to experience adverse health outcomes from climate change. There is evidence that this is related to insufficient efforts towards adapting to a warming climate.
As warming is projected to continue at th…
Every year the Allianz Risk Barometer identifies the most important risks for companies for the next 12 months and beyond.
The 2021 edition is based on the insight of more than 2,700 risk management experts from 90+ countries and territories. Business interruption ranks #1 while natural catastrophes and climate change are both in the top 10 perils.
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This policy brief addresses how climate change is threatening the overall progress made in reducing the global burden of diseases and injuries. Climate change has a serious impact on human lives and health. It threatens the basic elements we all need for good health and will undermine decades of progress in global health. In this paper, several pathways…
The sixth edition of the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report: The Gathering Storm looks at how the world is doing in adapting to these intensifying impacts. Even as the world looks to step up efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the need to adapt to the impacts of climate change already locked in are just as important.
The report finds that there is an…
This paper was commissioned by the IFRC and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre as an update of a first scan of the overlapping impacts of COVID-19 and climate-related disasters in September 2020, complemented by select illustrative case studies on how these compound risks have been playing out in practice around the world, to inform policy discus…