Documents and publications

The talking points come from previous SEM position papers for UNFCCC processes. They were written in collaboration with the SEM Climate Working Group and represent the collective contributions of its sixteen stakeholder constituencies.

The guide provides civil society organisations with a tried and tested approach for developing locally led solutions to the disaster risk challenges that are unique to their communities.

As part of an effort to ensure that stakeholders have the best information, this Handbook provides the reader with a baseline understanding of Mauritius’ national entities involved in disaster management and climate change action.

This policy brief addresses the critical challenge of climate change adaptation in Somaliland, where the impacts of climate change have led to severe social, economic, political, and ecological consequences.

This paper presents a seismic risk assessment and hazard prediction of the Hunhe Fault in the Shengyang-Fushun (Shen-Fu) New District.

In 2022, the pilot of an anticipatory action framework in Niger, demonstrated that acting early – before people experienced a drought’s full impact – enabled them to preserve land, save livestock and avoid negative coping strategies.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) developed the Climate Resilient Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Governance and Performance Indicators during 2018 and conducted a pilot study in Belize in 2019.

In this study authors compared two operational ground-based lightning detection networks used by fire managers to identify cloud-to-ground strokes of the origins of 4408 western United States lightning-ignited wildfires spanning May–September 2020.