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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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In the Philippines and most Southeast Asian countries, traditional disaster risk reduction measures aren’t holistic and sufficient to deal with the warming planet.
Inquirer.net, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Children walking in flood
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Children born over the past year[1] will on average face seven times more scorching heatwaves during their lives than their grandparents under original Paris Agreement emission reduction pledges.
Save the Children International
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The project will establish climate-resilient urban flood protection infrastructure, enhance stakeholders’ involvement in flood preparedness, and help ensure sustainable operation and maintenance of stormwater drainage systems.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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Host an event to showcase DRR projects where international cooperation played a role. Share your event via PreventionWeb to feature it on the International Day site.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
A man and a woman use a kayak to travel up a flooded street in McGraths Hill, Australia (2021)
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Remote sensing satellites can be an ally in building a more sustainable future, by providing granular information to insurers for real-time disaster monitoring with a view to improving the insurance industry’s risk understanding and intelligence.
Swiss Reinsurance Company (Swiss Re)
The city of Khartoum, Sudan flooded in 2020
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The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) plays a strategic role in providing advanced information services such as flood and drought forecasts to all its member countries.
World Bank, the
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The aim of this report is to demonstrate the connections between the global climate and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which go far beyond SDG 13 for climate action.
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To mark the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit a group of 31 globally diverse practitioners and researchers, sound a clarion call for water resilience to be brought to the forefront of building resilient and sustainable food system.
International Union for the Conservation of Nature
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The Road Map to Community Resilience via EVCA provides step‑by‑step guidance on how to operationalise the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ Framework for Community Resilience using the EVCA process.
CLIMADA Climate Risk Analysis  Urban flood resilience against  riverine floods in Uganda and  Nigeria
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This report discusses how applying climate risk analysis for Kampala/Uganda and Lagos/Nigeria and demonstrates useful information of the methodology applied.
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