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Displaying 45 of about 1442 resultsBackground and contextThe Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is a multi-stakeholder global partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector, and academic and knowledge institutions. It aims to address the challenges of building resil…
Apply hereAbout CDRI:The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is a partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector, and knowledge institutions that aims to promote the resilience of new and existing infrastructure systems to climate and disaste…
Last year, Typhoon Hinnamnor, which caused 36 fatalities, gained notoriety as the first super typhoon that developed at a high latitude as 25°N since Korea Meteorological Administration records began. This year in Osong, Chungcheongbuk-do, an unanticipated intense downpour caused rivers to suddenly overflow, resulting in numerous casualties.Earth's risi…
As climate change drives more frequent and intense weather, finding new ways to adapt can be a matter of life or death. A new Stanford-led study reveals a steady increase in the number of people at risk from tropical cyclones and the number of days per year these potentially catastrophic storms threaten health and livelihoods. The findings could help re…
Ce diagnostic sur la gestion des risques climatiques et de catastrophe en Algérie présente un profil rapide des risques auxquels fait face le pays, décrit l’impact macroéconomique des catastrophes, couvre les avancées faites en Algérie ainsi que les défis persistants dans le cycle de la gestion du risque de catastrophe (GRC). Ce document vise principale…
Farmers in Bangladesh’s coastal region say a changing coastline, erratic rainfall, high temperatures and rising sea levels as a result of climate change pose a threat to the livelihoods of millions.“I sowed lentils in 2022, but I was not able to harvest the crop as incessant rain wreaked havoc on my field during the chaitra [last] month of the Bengali c…
The training is intended to help Resident Coordinator Offices and UN Country Teams integrate disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework. Millions of people are falling back into poverty each year due to shocks ranging from both localized severe weather to major disaster events includin…
BackgroundOver 165,000,000 people live in Bangladesh; approximately 97% of Bangladeshis drink well water. Approximately 49% of Bangladesh’s area has drinking well water with arsenic (As) concentrations that exceed the 10 micrograms per liter (μg/L) World Health Organization (WHO) guideline. This exposure to a potent carcinogen is a significant threat to…
Deteriorating flood defences mean more than 200,000 homes in England are at risk of flooding, with MPs blaming Environment Agency budget shortfalls.[...]New houses were being built on floodplains without checks being carried out to make sure suitable flood defences had been put in place, the MPs said. They described the failure as “unforgivable”.[...]So…
Improved mapping gives decision makers a new tool for protecting infrastructure as Arctic warmsNew insights from artificial intelligence about permafrost coverage in the Arctic may soon give policy makers and land managers the high-resolution view they need to predict climate-change-driven threats to infrastructure such as oil pipelines, roads and natio…
There are many indicators that can measure threats that climate change poses to financial stability. The macroprudential challenge is to corral these indicators into a coherent surveillance framework for managing risk. This column harnesses a growing body of evidence on indicators into three primary categories: climate shocks, exposures to these shocks,…
Sea-level rise – along with increasing temperatures – is one of the clearest signals of man-made global warming. Yet exactly how rising water levels affect the coast is often misunderstood.A new coastal hazard assessment for Victoria’s Port Phillip Bay has again thrown the spotlight on the impact of sea-level rise on coastal communities in Australia. Sh…
The year 2023 has marked a significant milestone in our ongoing fight against climate change. Scientists have declared that 2023 was the hottest year on record, with scorching temperatures driven by climate change and further amplified by El Niño, a naturally occurring climate phenomenon that takes place every two to seven years.The year 2023 has a…
In 2022, Abia’s homeland Pakistan experienced the worst floods ever to hit the country. In 2005, a disastrous earthquake devastated the Kashmir region. In 2011, unprecedented, torrential monsoon rains caused severe flooding in 16 districts of the Sindh province. “Our country, and the whole of South Asia, is a disaster-prone area,” Abia says.…
Register hereBackgroundMonitoring and Evaluation (M&E) are essential management processes that allow project/program managers to track the progress of project activities and capture results and value addition of the program to the development agenda. In other words, it can help an organization, including managers, verify whether the objectives and i…