Executive Summary In 2023,1 the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded a total of 399 disasters related to natural hazards.2 These events resulted in 86,473 fatalities and affected 93.1 million...
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Executive Summary In 2023,1 the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded a total of 399 disasters related to natural hazards.2 These events resulted in 86,473 fatalities and affected 93.1 million...
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This report provides an analysis of food security and evolving needs and an update on WFP’s response and priorities. The convergence of multiple crises – conflict, extreme climate patterns and...
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The monthly risk briefing reports on new, emerging or deteriorating situations; therefore, ongoing events that are considered to be unchanged are not featured and risks that are beyond the scope and...
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CONFLICT OVERVIEW PLACES TO WATCH FOR VIOLENT CONFLICT These are selected areas where the model predicts the likelihood of at least 10 fatalities in the next 12 months in a first subnational...
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This report provides an analysis of food security and evolving needs and an update on WFP’s response and priorities. Hunger persists for as many as 333 million people who are acutely food insecure...
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CrisisWatch is our global conflict tracker, an early warning tool designed to help decision-makers prevent deadly violence by keeping them up-to-date with developments in over 70 conflicts and...
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Climate change impacts increase in Asia Bangkok, Thailand 27 July 2023 (WMO) – Extreme weather and climate change impacts are increasing in Asia, which ricocheted between droughts and floods in 2022,...
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New report: Top 10 climate disasters cost the world billions in 2022 Study identifies the year's 10 costliest extreme events influenced by the climate crisis - each caused more than $3 billion in...
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While facing the day-to-day news stream, the most recent tragic events, such as heat waves, droughts, forest fires, and monsoon floods last July and August, tend to supersede the recollection of...
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Author(s) : Simon Addison, Ritu Bharadwaj, Anna Carthy, et al. This paper presents a detailed overview of the nature of loss and damage risks affecting low-income countries, marginalised groups and...
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En vísperas del Día Mundial de los Refugiados, UNICEF insta a los gobiernos a fortalecer la protección y el acceso a los servicios para los niños y niñas refugiados, migrantes y desplazados NUEVA...
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À la veille de la Journée mondiale des réfugiés, l’UNICEF exhorte les gouvernements à renforcer la protection et l’accès aux services des enfants réfugiés, migrants et déplacés NEW YORK, le 17 juin...
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Ahead of World Refugee Day, UNICEF urges governments to strengthen protection and access to services for refugee, migrant and displaced children NEW YORK, 17 June 2022 – Conflict, violence and other...
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Heavy rain continues to affect south-eastern India and Sri Lanka, resulting in floods and landslides, and leading to an increased human impact. In Sri Lanka, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC)...
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Developed by UN University with Google and other partners, free online World Flood Mapping Tool will help plan urban and agricultural development, effective flood defences, disaster readiness,...
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2021 is “make or break year” for Climate Action 2021 must be the year for climate action – “the make it or break it year,” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres at the launch of...
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Abstract: On top of a decade of exacerbated disaster loss, exceptional global heat, retreating ice and rising sea levels, humanity and our food security face a range of new and unprecedented hazards,...
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Without drastic efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the humanitarian impacts of climate change will be far worse in the decades to come. Climate change is not a distant vision of a troubled...
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Extreme weather driven by climate change cost the world billions in 2020 - report Report identifies ten extreme events, influenced by climate change, that each caused $1.5 billion damage or more...