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Explore a comprehensive collection of publications, reports, and documents that focus on disaster risk and resilience.

These resources offer insights, best practices, and research aimed at mitigating the impact of disasters. Whether you're seeking the latest research, policy recommendations, or case studies, this library supports knowledge sharing and informed decision-making in building safer, more resilient communities.

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31 October 2024

Targeting transformative disaster risk resilience in East and North East Asia: Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2024 for ESCAP subregions

The "Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2024" focuses on transformative disaster resilience in East and North-East Asia.

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31 October 2024

Australia State of the climate 2024

The biennial State of the Climate Report draws on the latest national and international climate research, monitoring, science and projection information to describe changes and long-term trends in Australia’s climate.

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31 October 2024

The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action

The 2024 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, reveals a stark escalation in climate-related health threats, with 10 of 15 indicators tracking health threats reaching alarming new records.

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30 October 2024

Nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement. Synthesis report by the secretariat

This report synthesizes information from the 168 latest available nationally determined contributions communicated by 195 Parties to the Paris Agreement and recorded in the registry of nationally determined contributions as at 9 September 2024.

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30 October 2024

Combine art and technology for Early Warning for All: Hybrid analogue and digital early warning systems

This brief underlines that combining multiple knowledge systems and delivery formats in the design of early warning systems can help maximize the proportion of a user group that can access them and effectively use them to make decisions.

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30 October 2024

Impact of climate risk on fiscal space: Do political stability and financial development matter?

This paper explores how climate risks adversely affect fiscal space using panel local projections covering 199 economies spanning from 1990 to 2022.

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30 October 2024

Prioritizing heat mitigation actions in Indian cities: a cost-benefit analysis under climate change scenarios

To inform debate on how scarce public funds could most efficiently be allocated to reduce deaths and productivity loss due to extreme heat, this paper develops spatially explicit heat risk maps for Lucknow, Chennai, and Surat under climate scenarios,

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30 October 2024

Future climate-driven escalation of Southeastern Siberia wildfires revealed by deep learning

By using reanalysis data and climate model output together with a deep learning model, the study explores the relationship between positive-phase North Atlantic Tripole (NAT) sea-surface temperature anomalies and Southeastern Siberia wildfire increases.