Governance

Climate vulnerability is often associated with cyclones and disappearing coastlines, but major climate risks are also affecting landlocked countries, where climate change is altering glaciers, lakes and rivers that sustain lives and livelihoods.

This study applies regional scoping framework, a risk-to-action chain that follows risk as it moves through a system from information, to decisions, to finance, to action, to impact.

Using a qualitative key informant interviewing design, this study examined how flood risk management (FRM) is implemented in Rize through the perspectives of 51 senior civil ser-vants, appointees, technical experts, and managers involved in FRM

This scoping review maps peer-reviewed evidence on drought adaptation in the SADC region, which exhibits an observed downward trend in precipitation, making it a valuable case to study diverse approaches to managing changing risk.

The Himalayan flood exposed a risk that begins beyond Nepal’s borders – and demands a response that does too.

Bosai is a Japanese concept that encompasses all stages of disaster management. In a country where natural hazards are a frequent threat, understanding bosai is one of the most practical ways for individuals to protect themselves and those around them.

The report assesses current context of sea level rise, key challenges and ongoing efforts by Member States and the UN system to address such challenges. The report builds on the Sep 2024 high-level plenary meeting to address sea level rise threats

This toolkit examines how extreme weather events fuel mis- and disinformation and provides frameworks for assessing readiness, triaging threats, building partnerships and strengthening information resilience before, during and after disasters.

Japan is facing growing disaster risks while population decline reduces local response capacity. Following failures in delivering relief supplies after Kumamoto earthquake, the article urges stronger public-private partnerships and national coordination.

The report examines pathways to limit and reverse1.5°C overshoot. While limiting warming to 1.5°C remains central to the Paris Agreement, current policies and near-term trajectories say exceeding this threshold is now widely considered unavoidable.

The new mayor wants to invest in coastal resilience, but he will have to decide which areas of the city to protect. New York City has more than 500 miles of coastline, no two miles of the waterfront are quite the same and are vulnerable in different ways.

A deadly Nepal-Tibet border flood highlights how limited cross-border data sharing, restricted access to Tibet and weak early warning systems can hinder disaster preparedness. The article calls for greater regional cooperation on climate and flood risks.

The disaster in Rasuwa has once again exposed the vulnerability of Himalayan communities to climate-driven hazards and highlighted gaps in monitoring and early warning systems.

Climate change has amplified Europe’s heatwaves and increased the severity of the 2026 drought . With these effects expected to intensify, Europe can learn a lot from African leaders – and share resources and knowledge in turn. They have been here before.

Based on 21 NDC 3.0 submissions from ADB developing member countries, with a cutoff date of 14 November 2025, this paper finds encouraging progress in adaptation ambition but uneven implementation readiness.

This report reviews India's growing heat risk, the evolution of Heat Action Plans, financing mechanisms, and emerging governance approaches to strengthen climate resilience and public health protection.

As climate change increases aridity worldwide, the article explores how Rio Conventions and Sendai Framework can support coordinated adaptation through better land and water management, risk monitoring, inclusive governance and resilience-building.

This report provides an independent assessment of the implementation and effectiveness of the New Zealand Government’s national adaptation plan.

Governments are facing increasingly frequent, complex, and costly disaster risks, while the systems used to manage them are fragmented across agencies and jurisdictions, causing states and localities to adopt comprehensive resilience plans.

Adapting to the new hot dry summers is not difficult. Many countries deal with these sorts of extreme conditions ever single year. But it takes planning and investment in basic infrastructure, not just another emergency Cobra meeting.

The National Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (2025–2030) and Short and Medium Term Action Plan provides a comprehensive, forward-looking framework to strengthen Nigeria’s resilience to disasters.

This paper summarises lessons from major flood events since 2007 using a harmonised framework aligned with Integrated Flood Risk Management (IFRM).

The Island Innovation newsletter of 4 June 2026 referred to "the Falepili Mobility Visa, the world's first climate-linked migration pathway." The text of the 2023 Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty is clear that the visa offer is different.

A paper published in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences in April 2026 uses the 2025 California wildfires as a starting point to discuss broader systemic failures in disaster risk reduction (DRR).

A severe heatwave in Libya exposed the country’s weak infrastructure, triggering prolonged power cuts, water shortages and protests. The crisis highlighted how climate risks, poor preparedness and governance failures can amplify public vulnerability.

In the Torres Strait, sea levels are rising twice as fast as the global average. Scientists predict several low-lying islands in the Torres Strait will be uninhabitable by 2050 if global warming continues on its current trajectory.

The economic ramifications of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz are much discussed. But so far, the risk of ecological damage following a long blockade of ships has been overlooked.

Facing severe geological disasters, China is expanding risk management from individual hazard points to entire zones and deploying advanced technologies to minimize casualties and property losses.

Call it plurilateralism or coalition building, climate governance is increasingly carried by an ecosystem of actors convening faster than formal institutions and, at its best, connects expertise across domains that institutions still keep separate.

Researchers argue that their Cooling with Consent framework addresses the fact that not all communities are the same as to which cooling initiatives they will accept and so AI-driven heat adaptation solutions residents' buy-in.

A CMCC study analyses how wildfire risk is governed in Italy, Greece and the German federal state of Land Brandenburg, revealing how the institutions responsible for managing this risk actually work together

Whether the subject is violence against women, mental health, toxicity on our coasts, or perhaps now bird flu, we must ensure the duty of care to audiences keeps pace with the realities being reported.

This paper shows the need for sustained, context-sensitive strategies and policy reforms that address power dynamics and foster inclusivity. Strengthening participation across all disaster phases can enhance the effectiveness and sustainability of DRR.

Globally, river deltas are sinking and shrinking due to altered freshwater and sediment flows. Relying solely on structural interventions and engineered adaptations may be counterproductive.

This diagnosis involved the collation and synthesis of reported and observed interactions of the behavioural, cultural, disciplinary and regulatory dimensions of flood-risk governance that explain the persistence of inaction.

For millennia, fire was humanity's greatest tool. Today, it’s one of our greatest threats. Recovering control will require learning from the past while confronting the political choices of the present.

This working paper examines how the vertical integration of climate change adaptation can be strengthened, using Indonesia, Brazil and India as comparative case studies.

This article conducts a structured institutional and policy analysis, combining a focused review of Türkiye’s disaster governance architecture and legal framework.

This technical report presents the findings of the Crisis Preparedness Gap Analysis (CPGA) conducted in the Kyrgyz Republic.

Paul Müller from the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) explores climate adaptation, governance challenges, and the future of coastal fisheries in Europe

This handbook provides a disaster management (DM) profile of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) as a resource for civilian and military personnel.

Turkey, particularly its northern, northeastern, and eastern regions, possesses mountainous areas with topographic and meteorological conditions suitable for avalanche formation

Heatwaves still bring large parts of Europe to their knees.

When disruption strikes a modern enterprise, the greatest damage often comes not from the initial event but from how failures spread through connected systems.

This paper outlines commonalities across domains & a phased roadmap (governance, platform, operations, scaling), with KPIs & measures e.g legal mandates, integration units, CAP interoperability, blended finance & PPPs to embed early warning in eGovernance

A senior Indian bureaucrat shared a copy of India’s Disaster Management Act with a Pakistani bureaucrat. What happened next was a cut,copy, paste job which made history in Pakistan’s policy circles.