Documents and publications

The UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR 2024) looks at present and future trends, showing how forensic analysis can enable more targeted and more effective risk reduction.

Climate change is increasingly threatening the exercise of the right to vote by making it harder for people to register to vote, to get to the polls, and to have their ballots counted.

This practice note pushes for a proactive shift from reactive crisis response to preventive action, emphasizing the understanding of disaster risk as an interplay of hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and capacity.

Using statistical models trained on a large multi-country household survey dataset, this study projects AC adoption and energy use to mid-century at fine spatial resolution worldwide.

Swiss Re Institute projects excess mortality in the US and UK over the next 10 years under different scenarios, by analysing excess mortality trends globally and disaggregating the underlying factors driving them.

This report underscores the urgent need for transformative change and sets out a bold guide to strengthen our ability to understand and tackle systemic risk.

The factsheet shares insights on factors that are important for disaster risk reduction strategies in urban areas based on the example of Beau Bassin-Rose Hill in Mauritius.

This Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) report provides a synopsis of the estimated direct economic damage in Grenada following the passage of Hurricane Beryl.