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Displaying 15 of about 1446 resultsThis report provides a snapshot of the status of building regulatory frameworks in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. It aims to support policy makers, city officials, building industry professionals, researchers, and planners in identifying entry points for national dialogue to improve building regulatory frameworks and implementation mechanisms.The recomm…
This study investigates the intricate nexus between climate change, conflicts, and human mobility in the Moyale-Moyale Borderlands and in most cross-border pastoral areas in the region. The Moyale-Moyale Borderlands, situated between northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia, represent a unique confluence of challenges associated with climate change, human m…
This report examines how well-prepared the country is for future extreme weather events. Given the cross-cutting nature of these risks and their impacts they require coordinated action to be taken across government and beyond. The report sets out how central government coordinates, leads, supports and assures local activity, but does not cover…
In this publication researchers conduct an appraisal of the Glacial lake outburst flood (GLOFs) risks by combining high-resolution satellite images, case-by-case high-precision GLOF modeling, and detailed downstream exposure data. Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) are among the most severe cryospheric hazards in the Third Pole, encompassing the Tibet…
This publication examines recently collected data from Haiti’s social registry new shock module to measure the scale of the August 2021 earthquake’s impact on households and assess the adequacy of the relief response. In the aftermath of the earthquake, a survey module was promptly developed for the national social registry to evaluate the impacts and c…
This report is a companion piece to the Major Incidents Report 2022–23, drawing upon some of these findings. Using the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) societal, economic, environmental, geopolitical, technological risk categories, and their global risk projections for 2022, a range of factors were identified as potentially having an influence on an individ…
This report outlines key lessons from the funding call and indicates possible areas for funders and partners to consider as they conduct their own work at the intersection of climate change and health. We know that health is the human face of climate change. Heatwaves, droughts, floods, and other climate events are putting immense pressure on cities, fo…
XDI has analysed over 200,000 hospitals around the world for risk of damage from 6 different climate change hazards from 1990 until the end of the century. The risk arising from two different emissions scenarios (i) RCP 8.5 (around 4.3 ºC) and RCP 2.6 (1.8 ºC or under) was compared. The analysis was published ahead of the inaugural Health Day at the COP…
The Pakistan National Adaptation Plan (NAP) envisions a climate-resilient Pakistan made up of communities with socioeconomic and environmental adaptive capacities—collaborating to pursue prosperity, promote personal and national wellbeing, and protect their ecosystems through inclusive sustainable approaches.Its goal is to enhance the sustainable develo…
This publication covers the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) software, which now has a new plug-in to calculate water stress by catchment area. This tool, developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with SEI, can help countries meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 6.4.2, which measure…
This paper assesses the factors that influence willingness to enroll for crop insurance among farmers in irrigated and rainfed farming system in the drought-prone North Central Province of Sri Lanka using a logistic regression model. The study sample consisted of 149 irrigated farmers and 51 rainfed farmers selected randomly. Regression results show tha…
The objective of this paper is to give guidelines to policymakers, researchers, and agricultural stakeholders for taking proactive actions to address the immediate and lasting impacts of El Niño and enhance the resilience of the agricultural industry. This brief paper provides prospective strategies for farmers to anticipate and counteract the El Niño-i…
Enhancing urban resilience to climate change is a complex problem. Top-down, linear design, implementation and monitoring programmes are not sufficient. Instead, interventions that work with civil society organisations, policymakers and academics in the co-production of more inclusive representations of urban risk and resilience priorities can more effe…
This publication details how eight counties in Southeast Texas formed a non-tax authority flood control partnership to provide a forum for communication, create a regional database and improve flood modeling, early warning, and flood mitigation decisions. This partnership is able to successfully deploy and manage an early warning flood system network at…
The report highlights how disasters exacerbate existing inequalities and stresses the importance of inclusive policy development, sensitive communication strategies, and legal considerations tailored to the needs of these communities. It also underscores the need for better research, community and ally capacity building, and ensuring equitable and effec…