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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.

Documents and publications

22 November 2021

Crisis risk finance analytics report

This report compiles achievements and results to date, from the World Bank Crisis & Disaster Risk Finance Analytics program, on the integration of earth observation, big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence for disaster risk finance.

Update

19 November 2021

Climate migration and climate finance: Lessons from Central America

Forced migration from Central America is driven by violence, corruption, lack of opportunity, and—increasingly—climate change. The concurrence of this migration event with COP26 underlines the growing reality that climate change will drive migration.

Brookings Institution, the

Update

22 November 2021

Insurance can encourage data on African climate risks to inform government decision-making

As the effects of climate change in Africa become increasingly pronounced, government policymaking should build effective adaptation measures. But the lack of data on African climate risks is a barrier to knowing how.

London School of Economics and Political Science, the

Documents and publications

19 November 2021

Gender responsive disaster risk management: Analysis in Eastern and Southern Africa

This report provides an overview of the findings by UNICEF and the IFRC's study to explore the extent of integration of gender consideration in national and regional disaster risk management (DRM) legal and policy frameworks in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Documents and publications

18 November 2021

Europe's changing climate hazards: An index-based interactive EEA report

The EEA’s new ‘Europe’s changing climate hazards’ is an interactive report that gives an overview of past and projected changes in Europe’s most important climate hazards and how they impact European regions. 

Update

16 November 2021

Strengthening climate resilience from space

How a 15-year partnership between USAID and NASA is helping partners avert disaster.

Climatelinks

Update

18 November 2021

How an ‘atmospheric river’ drenched British Columbia and led to floods and mudslides

A weather system called an “atmospheric river” flowed across the southwest corner of the province and, over a period of two days, brought strong winds and near-record amounts of rain, which caused widespread flooding and landslides.

Conversation Media Group, the

Update

18 November 2021

5 sustainable solutions to help tackle extreme heat in South Asia

From painting roofs to geothermal air conditioning systems, accessible and sustainable cooling tools exist to help address the growing problem of heat stress, which is worsening due to climate change

The Third Pole

Research briefs

16 November 2021

Global warming speeds up the frequency of extreme hot weather and rainfall

The frequency of extreme hot weather and record temperatures and rainfall has increased around the world as a result of global warmin

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd

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9 November 2021

Expanding our ML-based flood forecasting

This work is a part of Google’s broader Crisis Response program which provides people access to trusted information and resources in critical moments.

Google

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