Building resilience to natural disasters is imperative for sustainable private sector development and growth in Malaysia. Floods have been Malaysia’s most frequent natural disaster, accounting...
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Highlights: The publication provides a summary on the state of the climate indicators in 2023 with sections on key climate indicators, extreme events and impacts. The indicators include global temperatures, greenhouse...
Highlights: It is no longer news that climate changes are, quite literally, reflected through water. The combined challenges of flood and drought already impact a fifth...
Study region The Punatshangchu River Basin and the Wangchu River Basin in Bhutan. Study focus Mountain regions are more sensitive to changes in environment and climate. Changes...
Highlights: The FIES method measures household food insecurity using the BIHS 2018-19 dataset. Findings reveal that climate shocks reduce farm income and household food...
The impact of climate change and variability on agriculture and food security is severe in countries that heavily depend on rainfed subsistence agriculture. Examine climate change and variability and determinant factors...
Disasters affect millions of people each year and cause economic losses worth many billions of dollars globally. Reporting on disaster impacts in research, policy, and news...
Highlights: Tunisia’s economic challenges have been compounded by an increasing vulnerability to climate change. The country’s location makes it one of the most exposed to climate change...
Recent climate change has brought new patterns of extreme events in terms of both drought and heavy rainfall to the drought-prone African Sahel. The effects of these recent...
Flooding is among the most prevalent natural hazards, with particularly disastrous impacts in low-income countries. This study presents global estimates of the number of people exposed to high flood...