Climate change

Disaster-risk reduction should be a core policy item in the climate-change agenda for protecting the vulnerable said Reid Basher of the ISDR secretariat...

Adaptation to climate change continues to rise on the agendas of researchers, practitioners, and decision makers, driven by growing evidence that climate change is real, already observable, and threatening to undermine development. Any effective

'...we commit to support urgent actions to mainstream adaptation into broader development strategies and encourage developing countries themselves to integrate adaptation into their development policies'...

This report is an output of the project Adaptation Strategies to the Environmental and Socioeconomic Impacts of El Niño for Rural Communities in Ecuador and Peru supported by the Trust Fund for Environmental and Socially Sustainable Development (TFESSD)

This global overview of fires in vegetation is based on 12 regional working papers submitted mainly by representatives of the UN/ISDR Global Wildland Fire Network in late 2005. Although many of the countries concerned acknowledge that the reliability of

Content: Foreword: The Coming "Environment Decade" and Introduction.

Part I: Balance at Risk, Ships in the Desert, The Shadow Our Future Throws, Climate and Civilization: A Short History, Buddha’s Breath, If the Well Goes Dry, Skin Deep, Seeds of

The general objective of the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre is to reduce the vulnerability of people to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. To achieve this, the Climate Centre has developed a comprehensive approach. It

While GCMs do simulate tropical cyclone-like vortex tracks in the southern
Indian Ocean, they do not capture well those which make landfall in southern Africa.The feasibility of using a nested modeling system to produce seasonal tropical cyclone forecasts