HONOLULU (Oct. 27, 2020) -- Higher temperatures, stronger typhoons, coral reef loss, and coastal flooding are among the major challenges detailed in a new report on climate change in the Republic of...
The World Bank developed a report identifying challenges facing the Sava and Drina Rivers Corridors in Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, and outlined recommendations...
Operational Updates COVID-19 response The number of food insecure people who are at risk of falling into food insecurity has risen since the peak of the global pandemic (COVID-19), due to restrictive...
Philippines According to National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), Typhoon MOLAVE (local name “Quinta”) affected a total of 27,960 families or 108,977 persons in 445 barangays...
Good disaster risk governance can help prevent and reduce existing disaster risks and build resilience of agriculture and food systems To commemorate the 2020 International Day for Disaster Risk...
Context The African continent has a very diverse climatic profile ranging from equatorial to desert with variable levels of rainfall and water flow. In the last 50 years, this variability has been...
Governments are quick to blame devastating floods on climate change. But many reasons for these floods are to do with what governments have not done. Arif Hasan reviews why disastrous floods are...
2.3 million people in need assisted by WFP operations in August 2020. 11.8 million vulnerable people face acute food insecurity in 2020. USD 213 million (October 2020 - March 2021) net funding...
In Numbers || September 2020 860,000 Rohingya refugees in the camps* (51% children, 45% adult, 4% older persons and 1% persons with disability) 113,072 households (570,000 people) in the host...
Policy Research Working Paper 9447 Jun Rentschler Melda Salhab This study provides a global estimate of the number of people who face the risk of intense fluvial, pluvial, or coastal flooding. The...