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Explore a comprehensive collection of publications, reports, and documents that focus on disaster risk and resilience.

These resources offer insights, best practices, and research aimed at mitigating the impact of disasters. Whether you're seeking the latest research, policy recommendations, or case studies, this library supports knowledge sharing and informed decision-making in building safer, more resilient communities.

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Forecasts for pastoralists: increasing demand for weather forecasts to support adaptation in northern Kenya

This policy brief explores the low demand for formal weather forecasts by pastoralists.
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Stories of resilience: Lessons from local adaptation practice 2024

This year’s Stories of Resilience lays out the need for urgent and rapid reform in how global and national climate finance is delivered, in the power dynamics between providers and recipients, and in how success is measured.
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Climate finance for the urban poor: A review of global climate funds

The new Cities Alliance report Climate Finance for the Urban Poor: A Review of Global Climate Funds highlights a critical funding gap that must be addressed to better support climate adaptation and mitigation efforts for low-income city residents.
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Agrifood systems in nationally determined contributions: Global analysis

This publication provides an overview of the major climate-related risks and greenhouse hotspots in agrifood systems and synthesizes in seven key findings the main climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies being set forth in NDCs.
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COVID-19 increased existing gender mortality gaps in high-income more than middle-income countries

This study draws on recent data that were not available for earlier studies to examine the extent to which the gender gap in mortality shifted in high- and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Information brief: The platform on disaster displacement and planned relocation

These brief displays frameworks, processes and guidance relevant to planned relocation that exist at the global, regional and national level, offering an overview of the Platform on Disaster Displacement's engagement on planned relocation from 2016-2024.
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Young people’s guide to climate change and children’s health

This report is a global summary of the existing literature on how six key climate-related hazards – extreme heat, wildfires, droughts, floods and storms, ecosystem changes and air pollution – impact children’s health and well-being.
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European flood awareness system – A technical assessment of CEMS EFAS performance during the floods in Northern Germany in December 2023/January 2024

This report verifies the performance of EFAS service with regard to forecast accuracy; communication clarity and timeliness. In December 2023/January 2024 extensive flooding occurred in Northern Germany in the Ems, Weser and Elbe catchments.

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