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**In early October 2020, widespread wildfires raged in Syria’s coastal regions, in a country already ravaged by conflict. Some people had to evacuate rapidly, others were seriously injured and many...

Communities across East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) face recurrent extreme weather events and natural hazards—such as earthquakes, floods, storms, and volcanic eruptions—that can lead to sudden-onset...

Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) experience a range of natural hazards, including droughts, earthquakes, floods, forest fires, hurricanes, landslides, tsunamis, and volcanoes. In FY...

In October, UNHCR facilitated three convoys transferring COVID-19 related assistance to non-government controlled Donetsk and Luhansk where serious shortages of medical supplies were reported. The...

Introduction Within the Red Cross Red Crescent, ambition and capacity to take climate action addressing the needs of the most vulnerable are rapidly growing. Climate change is now a key driver of...

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INTRODUCCIÓN Dentro de las responsabilidades de la UNGRD se encuentra el hacer seguimiento y reportar las acciones realizadas en el marco de la ejecución del PNGRD, con un informe semestral tal como...

Anexo 1. DIAGNÓSTICO DE LA GESTIÓN DEL RIESGO DE DESASTRES La elaboración del diagnóstico de la gestión del riesgo de desastres en Colombia partió de la base elaborada por el estudio del Banco...

Extreme weather driven by climate change cost the world billions in 2020 - report A new report by Christian Aid, Counting the cost 2020: a year of climate breakdown identifies 15 of the most...

Over the last twenty years, 7,348 disaster events were recorded worldwide by EM-DAT, one of the foremost international databases of such events. In total, as seen in Figure 1, disasters claimed...