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Displaying 60 of about 806 resultsThis climate risk profile is intended to serve as a public good to facilitate upstream country diagnostics, policy dialogue, and strategic planning by providing comprehensive overviews of trends and projected changes in key climate parameters, sector-specific implications, relevant policies and programs, adaptation priorities and opportunities for…
This report discusses how Climate change and anthropogenic pressures are widely expected to exacerbate coastal hazards such as episodic coastal flooding. This study presents global-scale potential coastal overtopping estimates, which account for not only the effects of sea level rise and storm surge, but also for wave runup at exposed open coasts.
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This publication outlines rapid onset and long-term changes in key climate parameters, as well as the impact of these changes on communities, livelihoods, and economies—many of which are already underway. Georgia is located in the South Caucasus Region, sharing land borders with Russia to the north, Turkey to the southwest, Armenia to the south and…
A 90-fold increase in the frequency of monthly heat extremes in the past ten years compared to 1951-1980 has been found by scientists in observation data. Their analysis reveals that so-called 3-sigma heat events, which deviate strongly from what is normal in a given region, now on average affect about 9 percent of all land area at any time. Record dail…
The GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning (CM4EW) is an international and transparent multi-source, consensus assessment of the crop growing conditions, status, and agro-climatic conditions that are likely to impact global production. The CM4EW reports on climate hazards, such as drought, flood, and extreme weather, as well as pests and crop diseases,…
During the early morning hours of September 14, 2018, the eyewall of Hurricane Florence crossed onto the shore of Wrightsville Beach with 90 mph winds. Over the next few days, the storm produced record-breaking rainfall across the state and catastrophic flooding that caused 42 fatalities, as well as more than $16 billion in damage to nearly 75,000 struc…
Washington—Over the past four decades, the time between tropical storms making landfall in the Gulf Coast has been getting shorter. By the end of the century, Louisiana and Florida could be twice as likely to experience two tropical storms that make landfall within nine days of each other, according to new model estimates.
As global climate changes, mo…
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has joined with the Government of Tonga to showcase findings of a groundbreaking report analyzing climate and disaster risk management in the Pacific nation, one of the most vulnerable in the world to the impact of climate change.
The findings, part of an upcoming report by ADB, were discussed at an event at COP26 hoste…
The recent eruption on La Palma, in the Canary Islands, has stimulated speculation that the volcano might collapse, creating a tsunami that would devastate the east coast of North and South America. But is such a scenario possible or likely?
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The Canary Islands “mega-tsunami” scenario assumed a single, coherent, massive collapse block that reache…
“Tsunamis happen rarely. So, in our day-to-day struggles with life, many of us put it on the back burner. This can prove unfortunate if one occurs.” Words of Mika Odido, the Africa coordinator for UNESCO – Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), in an interview with the DIRAJ editorial team on World Tsunami Awareness Day 20…
This report aims to update knowledge of water stress (a general term that includes drought and water scarcity) in Europe to inform policymakers and interested stakeholders about the current state of play. It presents arguments for a shift from crisis management to risk management, including by putting more emphasis on demand-side measures, such as incre…
This study aims to quantify the impact of climate change induced flood risk on the transport network in Argentina. The country's vast networks of national, provincial, and rural roads, spanning more than 240,000 kilometers, are critical for the country’s growth and development. However, climate change–induced hydrological extremes often disrupt road tra…
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The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes damaged municipal government office buildings, which was a large obstacle during evacuation and reconstruction. We need to develop technology that enables us to inspect municipal government offices, fire departments and other hub buildings for disaster control activities immediately after an earthquake occurs. The…
To examine the impacts of intensive versus extensive events, the authors investigated the loss structure of global flood-induced mortality by using the cumulative loss ratio, marginal benefit chart, and cumulative loss plot. Drawing on the flood-induced mortality data for four decades (1976–2016) from the international disaster database EM-DAT, they def…
This paper assesses flood resilience in the UK. There is much riding for the government on the back of its ‘Building Back Better’ agenda as a ubiquitous mantra. Equally, having set in law the world’s most ambitious climate change target to cut emissions more than three quarters of the way by 2035 compared to 1990 levels, departments are being commi…