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Click HERE for registration and more information: Date & Time   Date: 15 June 2021 (Tuesday) Time: 8:00 Rio de Janeiro | 13:00 Barcelona/Brussels | 14:00 Nairobi | 20:00 Incheon Duration: 45 minutes Language: English, with simultaneous interpretation into French   Event Description   The project lab is part of the Eur…
Webinar Recording     Event Description   C40 Cities is one of the Core Partners of the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030). This webinar aims to provide an introduction to C40 and the service offered by its Adaptation Programme and Climate Finance Facility which can support cities to progress along the resilience roadmap.…
This report details the development of a Forecast-based Financing plan for typhoons and flooding in the Philippines. An Early Action Protocol (EAP) for Typhoons was approved in November 2019. This EAP supports early action in an average five high-risk municipalities within each of the 26 provinces most affected by typhoons. In the event of a typhoo…
Food systems around the world are increasingly at risk from the impacts of climate change. At the same time, these systems, which include all activities from food production to consumption and food waste, are responsible for about one-third of the human-caused greenhouse gas emissions warming the planet.  To drive research-based innovation that wi…
Examples of innovative DRR initiatives supported by citizen science and crowd-sourcing.
Welcome to the 5th European Climate Change Adaptation Conference! Bringing adaptation solutions to life: Inspiring climate adaptation action today for a resilient future.  The 5th European Climate Change Adaptation Conference (ECCA 2021) takes place from 25 May to 22 June 2021. A series of 9 webinars is organised from 25 May to 10 June, in the ru…
This guidance note aims to provide practical step-by-step guidance on how to translate international commitments relevant to improving the gender-responsiveness of Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) solutions into action at the national and institutional level. These international commitments include the United Nations Framework Con…
The WHO Regional Office for Europe is initiating a new Regional Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Network, with the aim of establishing a permanent dialogue with civil society to expand knowledge and skills for emergency preparedness and response. The setting up of the network will follow on from a one-year pilot WHO/Europe initiative, which came to an…
The Asia-Pacific Partnership for Disaster Risk Reduction (APP-DRR) Forum concluded with a strong commitment to accelerate the implementation of the Sendai Framework by leveraging upcoming opportunities and with a confirmation of the dates for the 2022 Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, which will be hosted by Australia in th…
REGISTER HERE Today’s climate impacts affect nearly every region of the world. But the worst impacts are felt in developing nations that are the least prepared to weather them. To address this growing threat, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) recently released new climate chang…
In the Kwara Kwara state of Nigeria, two young women have campaigned for resilient recovery from the pandemic and mobilised youth in the fight for greener, stronger and healthy communities. Azeez Abubakar reports. This is the forty-ninth in the series of stories from Voices from the Frontline initiative by ICCCAD and CDKN. In Nigeria, young people are…
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The findings and case studies in this report paint a picture of the impacts and scale of the challenge councils face, but also outline a pathway to overcome them. Additionally, it offers 22 recommendations for all levels of government, chief of which is for all levels of government to set more ambitious net-zero targets and act to drive down the burning…
MORE SUPPORT and funding is needed to help local governments cope with the costs of climate change, a new report from the Climate Council and Cities Power Partnership has found. The Neighbourhood issue: Climate costs and risks to councils report found climate-fuelled extreme weather is compounding costs for councils. The bill for local govern…
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Under the PEER program, the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) organized a consultation meeting to develop a National Community Volunteers Guideline on 23 September 2021. Representatives from the Department of Disaster Management (DDM), Fire Services and Civil Defence (FSCD), Cyclone Preparedness Partnership (CPP), Bangladesh Scouts, and Banglade…
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The disaster risk reduction (DRR) status report provides a snapshot of the state of DRR in Indonesia under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. It also highlights progress and challenges associated with ensuring coherence among the key global frameworks at the national level; and makes recommendations f…

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