Knowledge Base Highlights and editors' picks

Peru has instituted policy reforms to improve its disaster risk management readiness and practices. The reforms established stronger financial protections, increased public investment in disaster prevention, and targeted interventions for resilient health and water infrastructure, reducing the population’s vulnerability.

This study aims to capture the information about resilience into a Community Intrinsic Resilience Index (CIRI), which embodies the resilience level of four critical sectors: transportation, energy, health and socio-economic.

This publication examines the links between water risks (harmful outcomes related to water, from droughts and floods to lack of sanitation), conflict, and forced displacement.

Forests, and the communities who protect and manage them, are critical in tackling climate change and nature loss. From COP26, guest blogger Gustavo Sánchez explains why they can no longer be ignored in the distribution of climate finance

This report explores the roles that rural African women play in food systems and the impacts that they suffer due to limited access and control over resources needed for adaptation and limited participation in decision-making processes.

Somalia has opened the National Desert Locust Monitoring and Control Centre in Somalia. The Centre, which opened on 3 November 2021 in Qardho, will not only serve Puntland but will also act as the National Desert Locust Early Warning and Control base.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has been playing a vanguard role in bringing anticipatory action into the mainstream of humanitarian programming as food systems face grave threats amid climate change.

The sixth edition of the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report: The Gathering Storm looks at how the world is doing in adapting to these intensifying impacts. The need to adapt to the impacts of climate change already locked in is more important than ever.

This paper presents analyses and proposals towards progress for transformative recovery with equality and sustainability, capable of addressing inclusion and social development challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean.

New analysis shows the summer seasonal temperature recorded across Europe in 2021 would have been impossible without human induced climate change.