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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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Documents and publications

25 April 2022

Financing for sustainable development report 2022

A year ago, the Inter-agency Task Force warned of the risk of a diverging world that could lead to a lost decade for sustainable development. Now, at the halfway mark to implementation of the 2030 Agenda, divergence is our reality.

Areal view of Almere in the Netherlands.

Update

24 April 2022

Climate resilient city template – Almere, Netherlands

The newest city in the Netherlands provides a glimpse of what future cities could look like. What was just water has become the world’s largest artificial island of 1,000 square kilometres.

Climate Adaptation Platform

Documents and publications

24 April 2022

Planning and monitoring country capacity strengthening for anticipatory action

The objective of country capacity strengthening for anticipatory action is to enable country-level stakeholders to act decisively, sustainably and at scale in anticipation of extreme climate events.

Documents and publications

22 April 2022

Technical guidance on comprehensive risk assessment and planning in the context of climate change

Climate risks are complex and systemic due to non-linear interactions among system components and the need for improved risk governance. This document offers a framework on how to apply comprehensive risk assessment and planning.

Documents and publications

22 April 2022

2021 Disasters in numbers

In 2021, the Emergency Event Database (EM-DAT) recorded 432 disastrous events related to natural hazards worldwide. Overall, these accounted for 10,492 deaths, affected 101.8 million people and caused approximately 252.1 billion US$ of economic losses.

Women and children walking through the desert of Kenya looking for water.

Update

19 April 2022

Horn of Africa drought: Late rains in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are inflaming hunger, warns WFP

The World Food Programme urgently needs US$437 million to respond and save lives in the region over the next six months

World Food Programme

Two Sudanese women working on the fields.

Update

21 April 2022

Improving early warning to enable early action

This year’s World Meteorological Day, emphasised the importance of early action and early warning systems for impact-based forecasting – a focal point for NORCAP’s climate services experts.

Norwegian Refugee Council

Update

20 April 2022

Early warnings for floods in South Africa: engineering for future climate change

Could South Africa’s recent flooding have been foreseen? Forecasting extreme weather events has long been a challenge for scientists and engineers around the world.

Conversation Media Group, the

The cover shows a Bangladeshi women smiling into the camera dressed in traditional clothes.

Documents and publications

21 April 2022

Resilient communities acting early to mitigate effects of 2020-21 monsoon floods in Bangladesh: Stories from the frontline

This publication portrays stories from communities acting early ahead of floods to protect their lives, assets and livelihoods in Bangladesh. It provides insights into how the government’s capacity to tackle the impact of the monsoon flood has increased.