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This publication discusses the potential for flood risk to affect the share of credit institutions'' exposure. Climate change is impacting society already today and will have further consequences in the future. A successful green transition will require

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Stormier seas and more frequent floods can cause havoc anywhere. The Danish financial system is now growing apprehensive.
Climate News Network
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As with many challenges, education can hold the key to finding solutions to a problem such as climate change. This publication assesses how education might address issues of climate change, using the Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) model on Education

Lina Liakou, Resilient Cities Network

The current pandemic serves as a stark reminder of how urban challenges are deeply connected; therefore our solutions must be so as well. Cities are

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The project brings together organisations and partners across Europe and beyond, to investigate how social media and crowdsourcing can be used in disaster management.
European Commission
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This paper argues that there is a need for a new policy framing that Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) investment is imperative that will generate dividends for governments and society at large. Under the auspice of the Sendai Framework for disaster risk

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This paper presents a mobility indicator derived from anonymised aggregated mobile positioning data. Even though the indicator does not provide information about the behaviour of individuals, it captures valuable insights into the mobility patterns of the

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This work introduces the concept of data-driven Mobility Functional Areas (MFAs) as geographic zones with a high degree of intra-mobility exchanges. Such information, calculated at European regional scale thanks to mobile data, can be useful to inform


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