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Every week the PreventionWeb team of editors selects the latest news and research, reports and publications on disaster risk reduction – here is their selection of the latest must-read content.

Update

16 November 2022

How climate change is affecting women in the Amazon

Droughts and floods have radically altered family farming, but women leaders are finding solutions for themselves and their communities.

Eos - AGU

Documents and publications

17 November 2022

State of the Climate in South-West Pacific 2021

The State of the Climate in the South-West Pacific 2021 shows how weather-related disasters are undermining socio-economic development, and threatening health, food and water security.

Update

15 November 2022

Climate change will clearly disrupt El Niño and La Niña this decade – 40 years earlier than we thought

New research sheds light on how climate change will influence the El Niño-Southern Oscillation by 2030. This has big implications for how Australians prepare for extreme weather events.

Conversation Media Group, the

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Research briefs

10 November 2022

Study shows how to boost early intervention for climate-related health risks

This study evaluates barriers to the implementation of early warning systems for proactive responses to outbreaks of climate-related diseases in the Tropics.

Duke University

Villagers going home on an improvised raft during the monsoon flooding in Thailand, 2010

Update

15 November 2022

UNICEF calls for investment in world’s first child-focused climate risk financing solution

Focusing on eight cyclone-prone countries across multiple regions, the $30 million risk transfer financing platform seeks to support 15 million children, youth and women over an initial three-year pilot.

United Nations Children's Fund (Global Headquarters, New York)

Mr Christos Stylianides, Greece's Minister Climate Crisis speaking during the Action-Oriented Dialogue organized in Athens, Greece on 21 October 2022.

Interview

15 Nov 2022

“The climate crisis is already here, it's real” – and Greece is taking it seriously

Christos Stylianides, Greece’s Minister for the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, tells PreventionWeb about his unique role, and how his ministry is tackling adaptation and resilience.

Indigenous people at an assembly in Brasil

Update

15 November 2022

Effects of climate change such as flooding makes existing disadvantages for Indigenous communities so much worse

Spring is here, and with it comes the threat of more floods. Australia is currently experiencing its third consecutive year of a La Niña weather cycle. This means we expect more rainfall than average over the spring and summer months.

Conversation Media Group, the

Research briefs

15 November 2022

Dam safety: study indicates probable maximum flood events will significantly increase over next 80 years

Industry-funded research says existing models for potential maximum rainfall are out of date and suggests existing dams are at greater risk due to spillway inadequacy.

University of New South Wales

People crossing a flood river in Durban floods, South Africa (2022)

Update

14 November 2022

New study spotlights Africa cities’ natural ability to absorb rainfall

A new study published by Arup has revealed the “sponginess”, or natural ability to absorb rainwater, of five cities’ urban centres across Africa. This comes as leaders at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh turn their attention to Water Day.

Arup International Development

Documents and publications

15 November 2022

The good climate finance guide for investing in locally led adaptation

The purpose of this guide is to showcase different ways that Locally Led Adaptation (LLA) has been financed and implemented in different contexts in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific.