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This theme addresses the capacity of the private sector to understand and anticipate, mitigate and manage situations arising from natural and man-made hazards, as well as contribute to building the capacity and resilience of communities to disasters. 

Latest Private sector additions in the Knowledge Base

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How can policy makers help strengthen corporate climate disclosure to scale up private climate finance?

To scale up private climate finance, investors must be able to identify corporations that are serious about climate action and have better information on where to direct their investments to have the biggest impact on climate goals.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Group of businessmen climbing a mountain.
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How business is bringing innovation and technology to disaster management

This article puts the spotlight on innovation and technology to showcase how some of our partners - and the private sector more broadly - are leveraging #techforgood in the context of disaster management, to #actforhumanity.
Connecting Business initiative
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Managing to cope with disasters in firms

Human-induced climate change is making disasters more frequent and more intense. This column explores how management practices shape the impact of environmental shocks on firms.
VOX EU
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Climate change hits India’s artisans with a double whammy: Extreme heat makes pollution even more dangerous

Air pollution on top of extreme summer heat is causing lung problems globally; the situation is dire in India for makers of traditional musical instruments, who work with wood fires.
Yale Climate Connections
Research briefs

Nationwide flood models poorly capture risks to households and properties

UC Irvine researchers stress need for local topography and infrastructure data
University of California, Irvine
Malia Beach with washed up items following big floodings on Crete Island in Greece.
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Flood risk and credit to SMEs

This column uses localised data from three European countries to identify the financial impact of flooding on small and medium-sized enterprises, an important channel beyond the immediate impact on physical capital.
Centre for Economic Policy Research
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Documents and publications

Building climate-resilient value chains in arid and semi-arid regions: a VC-ARID approach for rangeland adaptation in Kenya

The study investigates the impact of climate change on nature-based value chains in arid and semi-arid environments.
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Documents and publications

An introduction to assessing climate resilience in smallholder supply chains

This guide offers food and beverage companies a working definition of climate resilience, plus an actionable process guide and sample indicator framework for diagnosing climate resilience in smallholder crop-focused supply chains.
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