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Displaying 105 of about 329 resultsThis map shows hot days and waves and cold days and waves hazards in Europe. These four indicators are classified into categories and their mean values are used to build the map. In EU 27+2 where both, extreme coldness and extreme heat appear in the same area.
The map shows a general trend of an increasing extreme temperature hazard from west to east.…
This BAMS special report presents assessments of how human-caused climate change may have affected the strength and likelihood of individual extreme events.
The ninth edition of the report "Explaining Extreme Events in 2019 from a Climate Perspective", presents 15 new peer-reviewed analyses of extreme weather across four continents and one sea during 2…
This DRR Tool Kit for Constituent Assembly members is produced jointly by the following organizations, with funding support of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department (through DIPECHO V partners–ActionAid with AusAID co-finance, Care Nepal, Handicap International, Mercy Corps, Practical Action and UNDP–BPCR South and South–West Asia), Oxfam…
This report shows that the natural catastrophe statistics for 2012 were largely dominated by atmospheric events, with no catastrophic earthquakes. Due to a number of major weather-related catastrophes, including severe tornado outbreaks in the spring and a record drought in the US Midwest, the USA accounted for an exceptionally high proportion of natura…
This report focuses on the risks of climate change to development in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia and South Asia. Building on the 2012 report, Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided, this new scientific analysis gives a more detailed look at how the negative impacts of climate change already in motion could create devastating…
This report examines four topics: (i) disasters in 2012, with a focus on recurring disasters; (ii) the role of regional organizations in disaster risk management; (iii) wildfires; and (iv) the important role of women in disaster risk management. It highlights the value given by governments and other actors in working together to prevent disasters and, t…
Better, quicker action in response to forecasts of extreme temperatures could reduce the risks and discomfort endured by five billion people – two thirds of humanity – in heatwaves and coldwaves, according to research led by the Climate Centre and Columbia University and published yesterday in Environmental Research Letters.
Virtually the entire w…
The first half of 2018 was fortunate in that natural disasters across the world caused significantly lower losses than usual. According to provisional figures, overall losses were around US$ 33bn, the lowest level since 2005 (US$ 29bn after adjustment for inflation).
However, individual events did cause high losses for those concerned, for example cr…
The latest catastrophe report from Aon finds that the combined cost of winter storms and extreme cold led to billion-dollar damages across the United States throughout January 2019, torrential seasonal rainfall prompted a USD 2.3 billion economic loss to agriculture in Argentina and Australia records its warmest month on record; it's the first time…
This report assesses inequalities in the exposure to and health impacts of selected environmental health hazards (air pollution, noise and extreme temperatures) on European society and discusses how these are addressed in policy and practice.
This report has four main objectives:
To assess the links between socio-demographic inequalities and exposur…
This study finds that 17 million people were newly displaced by sudden-onset disasters worldwide in 2009, and over 42 million people in 2010. To meet this challenge, the study recommends that greater collaboration is required between those working in the fields of humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and development. I…
The purpose of this report is to provide guidance to World Bank staff involved in the implementation of hydrometeorological-related early warning systems through the modernization of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs). It considers the practical implementation of multi-hazard early warning; and how some of these best practices in…
This extreme events technical report represents one of five major components of research undertaken as part of the Climate Futures for Tasmania project. It (i) covers projected changes to the frequency, magnitude and duration of temperature and precipitation extremes across Tasmania for the 21st century; (ii) describes extreme events in the Tasmanian re…
By Carl Meyer
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The climate resiliency of electricity grids across North America is coming under closer examination following a winter storm in the United States that has killed 47 people and has left millions of others in the freezing cold.
While Canada’s electrical grids don’t face nearly the same set of problems faced by Texas — for one, Canad…
By Jeannette Cwienk
As Germans shiver through double-digit negative temperatures and more than 80 centimeters (30 inches) of snow in parts of the country, climate science deniers have taken to social media to argue that global warming is a hoax.
Their claim — which has been repeatedly debunked by climate scientists — is that extremely cold weather sho…