Disaster statistics reports

The year 2020 rivalled 2016 as the world’s hottest recorded year despite the absence of a strong El Niño effect.

This report also demonstrates the impact of this warming, both on the planet’s ecosystems and on individuals and communities, through superstorms, flooding, heatwaves, droughts and wildfires.

This paper discusses how extreme weather disasters (EWD) can jeopardize domestic food supply and disrupt commodity markets. However, historical impacts on European crop production associated with droughts, heatwaves, floods, and cold waves

This report examines the role of companies in building a water-secure world. The cost of water risks to business could be over five times greater than the cost of taking action now to address those risks, according to a new report by CDP

This paper assesses the long-term changes in mortalities due to extreme weather events in India. In the Indian subcontinent, the annual average extreme weather events (EWEs) are reported to be increasing during the last few decades. The impact of

The "Global Climate Risk Index 2021: Who suffers Most from Extreme Weather Events? Weather-related Loss Events in 2019 and 2000 to 2019" analyses to what extent countries and regions have been affected by impacts of weather-related loss events (storms

The newsletter provides a short overview of the human cost of disasters and key recommendations, a longer, comprehensive version of which can be found in the report "The human cost of disasters: an overview of the last 20 years (2000-2019)".

The report is a synthesis of the science informing our understanding of climate in Australia and includes new information about Australia’s climate of the past, present and future.