Heat Wave Updates

Brief Analysis The predominant themes among the calls from across the country to Radio Ergo’s audience feedback platform in the week 9-15 January 2025 were drought and the need for aid. Livestock...

Brief Analysis This is the first weekly report to be issued for 2025 based on calls to Radio Ergo’s nationwide audience feedback platform. The platform is open for people anywhere in the country to...

Africa Weather Hazards Mozambique and Madagascar are experiencing continued hot and dry conditions, whereas central Southern Africa is experiencing an increase in rainfall. Inundation remains in the...

December 2, 2024 by BRAC Reading time: 5 minutes When Bashonti Mondol started planting rice on a plot of land next to her house in the remote coastal village of Majgurkhali, she was ridiculed. They...

November 3, 2024 by Faruq Hasan Reading time: 6 minutes With the hottest months of the year finally behind us in Bangladesh, we’re reflecting on the multiple months of extreme heat we faced in 2024...

Key messages – Extreme weather reached dangerous new heights in 2024. This year’s record-breaking temperatures fueled unrelenting heatwaves, drought, wildfire, storms and floods that killed thousands...

New study: Top 10 climate disasters cost the world billions in 2024 Study identifies the year’s 10 costliest extreme events influenced by the climate crisis - each caused more than $4 billion in...

Abstract This report highlights the critical yet underexplored intersection between social protection policies and climate change policies and events in the Maldives. Despite their potential, social...

How can communities manage the disasters and health crises associated with their region better and move towards resilience? Are the interventions infused by the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement...

Brief Analysis Among calls to Radio Ergo’s audience feedback platform this week (12-18 December 2024) there was an increase on previous weeks in the number of people speaking of concerning levels of...

DG ECHO Emergency funding to respond to the drought in the Amazon basin Peru EUR 300 000 Brazil EUR 200 000 Source: DG ECHO

Highlights Immediate action needs to be taken to fulfill children’s inalienable right to a healthy environment. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) urges governments, donors, development...

Brief Analysis Calls this week (5-11 December 2024) to Radio Ergo’s nationwide independent audience feedback platform included concerns about drought and water shortage expressed by callers in...

RISK ANALYSIS AND EARLY ACTION SELECTION Prioritized hazard and its historical impact. There has been a general increase in temperatures across Myanmar over the last six decades. This has resulted in...

Alisher Mirzabaev, Ronald Jeremy Antonio, Melanie Connor, Katherine Nelson, Kazuki Saito, and Bjoern Ole Sander December 2024 Executive Summary Confronting Climate Change in Southeast Asia’s Rice...

Some of the greatest impacts of climate change worldwide arise from increasing extreme weather events, including hot temperature extremes. As global warming is projected to further intensify in...

INTRODUCTION As 2024 sets new temperature records, this issue of Southasiadisaster.net titled “Evaluating Extreme Heat Projects and Programmes: Key Lessons” provides a deep dive into the growing...

As climate shocks hit harder, more often and in more places, displaced people are increasingly finding themselves forced to move again and again in search of somewhere safe and habitable – even as...

RISK ANALYSIS AND EARLY ACTION SELECTION Prioritized hazard and its historical impact Over the past few decades, Burkina Faso has faced a series of "extreme" weather events of unprecedented magnitude...

Highlights UNFPA is responding to the reproductive health and protection needs of women and girls displaced from eastern Aj Jazirah State. Since 20 October 2024, more than 343,500 people have fled...