STORY HIGHLIGHTS In fiscal year 2020, the World Bank Group allocated nearly $21.4 billion to climate-related investments, surpassing its climate-finance target for the third year in a row. Bank Group...
This report systematically assessed the global natural disasters occurred in 2019 and over the last 30 years, and analyzed the ranking of China in Asia and worldwide, using Global Disaster Database...
The Government of Switzerland has pledged USD300,000 in contributions for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Tsunami,...
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Effective governance is one of the most essential elements of an overall disaster risk management strategy. Our world has been witnessing a consistent rise in water-related disasters in recent years...
Parts of Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire remain dry while heavy rainfall triggers flooding across West and East Africa Africa Weather Hazards Desert locust swarms remain present across parts of Ethiopia,...
Cities are home to 55 per cent of the world’s population, all jammed together cheek-by-jowl. Little wonder, then, that cities are being hit hardest by COVID-19: an estimated 90 per cent of all...
Executive Summary In 2019, 396 natural disasters were recorded in EM-DAT with 11,755 deaths, 95 million people affected and 103 billion US$1 in economic losses across the world. The burden was not...
The current COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented event that tests the ability of health systems and governments to manage health risks. For instance, the capacity of medical services such as...
Understanding hazards first step in addressing them, says scientific community More than 800 scientists and experts contributed to a new report which defines and classifies hazards which was launched...