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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

21 September 2021

Scaling up agricultural insurance in Togo

New parametric insurance products against drought and excessive rainfall launched to improve climate resilience and access to finance of Togolese smallholders farmers.

InsuResilience Solutions Fund

Update

17 September 2021

How will a changing climate affect the future of vector borne diseases?

With a changing climate, animal, insect, and plant species will either adapt or die under new environmental and climate conditions – this brings new challenges in the study of vector-borne infectious diseases.

Open Access Government

Update

16 September 2021

More than 139 million people hit by climate crisis and COVID-19, new IFRC analysis reveals

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate-related disasters have affected the lives of at least 139.2 million people and killed more than 17,242.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre

Documents and publications

20 September 2021

Climate change in the Baltic Sea: 2021 fact sheet

This publication provides a summary for policy makers of the latest scientific knowledge on how climate change is currently affecting the Baltic Sea and about what we can expect to happen in the future.

Research briefs

16 September 2021

Coastal flooding could save atoll islands from rising seas – but only if their reefs remain healthy

A recent study suggests that hugely disruptive and potentially life-threatening extreme weather events may actually be required for the long-term survival of atoll islands and their communities.

Conversation Media Group, the

Research briefs

16 September 2021

AI system developed by Stanford researchers identifies buildings damaged by wildfire

A deep learning approach to classifying buildings with wildfire damage may help responders focus their recovery efforts and offer more immediate information to displaced residents.

Stanford News Service

Documents and publications

20 September 2021

United In Science 2021: A multi-organization high-level compilation of the latest climate science information

This report presents the very latest scientific data and findings related to climate change to inform global policy and action.

Update

15 September 2021

Forecast-based Financing for flash floods: a Flash Flood Confidence Index to improve flood reporting

Researchers developed a method to assign a flash flood confidence index for each event in an historical flood dataset, based on ‘text mining’ of disaster reports and a flash flood susceptibility index extracted from the location of the events.

Anticipation Hub

Research briefs

17 September 2021

To understand hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, consider both climate and conflict

Warfare exacerbates the impacts of drought to produce food insecurity crises that last long after the drought has passed, new research documents.

Eos - AGU

Documents and publications

16 September 2021

Climate change risk assessment 2021

This short report summarizes climate risks and their consequences for people, food and water security, as well as national and international security, migration, economies and trade.

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