Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management in brief

This briefing note is part of the Strengthening Climate Resilience Discussion series which aims to elaborate concepts and the application of the Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management (CSDRM) approach. The publication's authors stress the need to switch to the climate-smart version of disaster risk management to ensure that efforts will enhance disaster resilience in a changing climate. The document explains how the CSDRM approach works, supports and builds on other frameworks and approaches and goes on to describe the way ahead for the programme, encouraging readers to share their views and experience.