Latest news on Disaster Risk Reduction
- Amid record cold temperatures and skyrocketing energy demand, utilities across the central U.S. have ordered rolling blackouts to ration electricity.
- The Marketplace provides space for public and private sector solution providers to showcase their knowledge or technology products online.
- A new study predicts an increase in the frequency of flash droughts in India towards the end of this century.
- Our cities, designed for one set of climatic ranges, are increasingly “out of place” as average temperatures rise. The days above 40℃ are increasing.
- COVID-19 has caused more than 109 million confirmed cases, claimed more than 2.4 million lives, and brought nations and well-run healthcare systems to their knees.
- A cross-cutting approach is needed to tackle neglected diseases as COVID-19 diverts attention.
- IPWEA has released a resource for infrastructure managers wanting to know the impacts of climate change on assets an infrastructure.
- On Tuesday 16th February 2021, the Australian High Commissioner to Tonga with the Minister for MEIDECCofficially commissioned the new warehouse.
- This paper analyses the extreme rainfall in East Africa between October 2019 and January 2020 and contextualises it with future climate change. The 2019 October–December rains over East Africa were one of the wettest seasons on record, with many locations receiving more than double the climatological rainfall, leading to floods and landslides....
- The Climate Coalition Health Report addresses the severe health issues related to climate change which are a reminder of the need to rapidly reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and reach a zero carbon economy. It is only through successful global action to reduce emissions we will stop climate change – and we must reduce our emissions...