Risk identification and assessment

In this study, the authors introduce the Schroders Capital Insurance-Linked Securities (SCILS) model that leverages projected climate proxies to estimate category-specific North Atlantic landfall rate changes for different global warming levels.

Using the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI), the study shows that hazardous heat is becoming more frequent, more intense and more widespread, with hotter nights, longer heat stress seasons and increasing numbers of people exposed to hazardous heat.

Heavy precipitation becomes more intense with every degree the Earth warms. This has an impact on flooding.

Already, tropical cyclones are peppering the Pacific and skipping the Atlantic, and U.S. temperatures are topsy-turvy.

Ocean tides push upstream along coastal rivers, in some cases reaching hundreds of kilometers inland. These inland stretches are known as tidal rivers, and they’re the scene of complex interactions between the river current and tidal oscillations.

The manual provides practical guidance for designing and implementing participatory climate risk assessments and locally led adaptation processes.

As scientists learn more about how climate change could trigger catastrophic flooding, wholesale collapse of food supplies and millions of heat-related deaths, there is a growing realisation that such risks need to be more widely understood and acted on.

Cuba is strengthening DRR through anticipatory action, risk-informed planning and inclusive Cooperation Frameworks that address climate hazards and social vulnerabilities.