Executive Summary Compared to the average over the last 30 years (1990-2019), the occurrence and intensity of global natural disasters were generally at a lower level in 2020. Major natural disasters...
Summary Adapting humanitarian action to the effects of climate change: an ALNAP lessons paper Humanitarian agencies need to reflect on the past, learn from the present and actively imagine the (near...
Globally, September 2021 was one of the four warmest Septembers, for the reference period 1991-2020, along with those of 2020, 2019 and 2016. In Europe, temperatures were warmer than the 1991-2020...
5 October 2021, Geneva/New York – On this World Teachers’ Day, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, announced it has reached...
REGIONAL SUMMARY: For the thirty-ninth (39th) week of 2021, a total of 19 disasters (1 earthquake, 12 floods, 4 landslides, and 2 wind-related) affected the region. Indonesia, Malaysia, and the...
Continued above-average rainfall has maintained flooding over Sudan and South Sudan Africa Weather Hazards Hopper bands and swarms have formed over eastern Ethiopia which are expected to continue...
KEY MESSAGES • Tajikistan is projected to experience temperature rises significantly above the global average. Under the highest emissions pathway (RCP8.5), warming could reach 5.5°C by the 2090s,...
Climate Crisis – Children face life with far more heatwaves, floods, droughts and wildfires than grandparents Children born over the past year[1] will on average face seven times more scorching...
Africa Weather Hazards Hopper bands and swarms have formed over eastern Ethiopia which are expected to continue through September and October. Abnormal dryness persists over Uganda, western Kenya,...
Heavy rainfall is forecast over western Ethiopia next week Hopper bands and swarms have formed over eastern Ethiopia which are expected to continue through September and October. Abnormal dryness...