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This report provides an independent evaluation of the benefits, costs, opportunities, and risks for Switzerland in becoming a participating state of the UCPM.
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Documents and publications
This CSS Risk and Resilience Report provides a comparative analysis of national risk assessments. Specifically, it compares the assessments made by nine European countries and Swiss Re respectively of five types of cross-​border risks.
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Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) today announced the launch of its Climate Change Resilience Services to help businesses better prepare for current and future risks associated with climate change.
Zurich Insurance Group Limited
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Switzerland's Voluntary National Report for the Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (MTR SF).
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With a view to capitalising on this potential for monitoring purposes, researchers at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF have developed a method to automatically, quickly and reliably map avalanches in optical satellite images.
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
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Co-authored by over 30 international experts, a policy brief led by UNIGE and the GSPI recommends leveraging Switzerland’s scientific and diplomatic role in One Health.
University of Geneva
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Researchers from the University of Zurich have analyzed the frequency, intensity and length of such extreme events for five Swiss cities. Lugano and Geneva would be most affected.
University of Zurich
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Human experts will continue to produce the avalanche bulletin in future, but computer assessments based on weather data and other measurements have a valuable role to play as a “second opinion”.
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF

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