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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.

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8 November 2022

Climate change means farmers in West Africa need more ways to combat pests

The link between climate change and the spread of crop pests has been established by research and evidence.

Conversation Media Group, the

Update

8 November 2022

Building weather resilient classrooms for better future in Mozambique

The World Bank helps rehabilitate more than 700 weather-resilient classrooms across the country to protect investments in human capital. The investments include transfer of technical and knowledge skills necessary to build resilient infrastructure.

World Bank, the

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7 November 2022

Early Warnings for All Action Plan unveiled at COP27

It will cost just 50 cents per person per year for the next five years to reach everyone on Earth with early warnings against increasingly extreme & dangerous weather, according to a plan unveiled by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Feature

7 November 2022

A world with zero climate disasters needs early warnings for all

UN Secretary-General’s Early Warnings for All Action Plan, announced at COP27, advances UNDRR’s strategy for a world with zero climate disasters.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Documents and publications

7 November 2022

Provisional state of the global climate in 2022

The report provides an authoritative voice on the current state of the climate using key climate indicators and reporting on extreme events and their impacts.

Update

6 November 2022

Climate change will force up to 113m people to relocate within Africa by 2050 - new report

New report makes the case that inclusive development choices that reduce vulnerability and build climate resilience could enable people to stay in their home communities.

Conversation Media Group, the

Research briefs

4 November 2022

Extreme temperatures take deadly toll on people in Texas prisons, study finds

A research team led by scholars from Brown University found higher death rates among people in prisons without air conditioning compared to those in climate-controlled institutions.

Brown University

Update

4 November 2022

Looking to the sky for better tsunami warnings

Pairing navigation satellites and CubeSats could provide earlier, more accurate warnings of approaching tsunamis and other impacts of extreme events.

Eos - AGU

Update

4 November 2022

Climate change could be as deadly as cancer in parts of the world according to new data

Already vulnerable areas set to be hit the hardest, driving an inequality surge in human development unless there is urgent climate action

United Nations Development Programme - Bosnia and Herzegovina

Community announcement

4 November 2022

Call for applications: 2023 RISK Award "Climate resilience and early warning"

The RISK Award, endowed with 100,000 € project funding, is jointly organised by UNDRR and Munich Re Foundation. The RISK Award 2023 focuses on early warning, particularly in building resilience to climatic risks.

Munich Re Foundation

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

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