Climate change

Climate adaptation for disaster resilience and climate change as a risk driver.

Climate adaptation relates is the process of adjusting in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climate hazards, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities. Climate change adaptation is closely related to disaster risk management as they both aim to reduce vulnerability and build resilience to disasters. Climate change as a risk driver refers to how changes in the global climate drive extreme weather events and disaster risk.


Latest Climate change additions in the Knowledge Base

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Industrial air pollution
Research briefs

Almost half of global average temperature rise and a third of sea-level rise can be attributed to the “carbon majors,” the world’s 122 largest fossil fuel and cement producers, a recent paper shows.

Mongabay
Riksha drivers walking through the flooded streets in Bangladesh in 2020.
Research briefs

With projected global warming, the frequency of extreme storms will ramp up by the end of the century, according to a new study.

MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Young girl walking on the street during floods in San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015)
Update

Extreme weather and environmental change are generating long-term mental health challenges in the region, with experts highlighting an urgent need for more studies and intervention.

Dialogue Earth
This image shows a group of refugees walking in a cornfield. They are Syrian refugees who are crossing the border to reach the EU.
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Population displacement may become an obvious adaptation margin to climate change in vulnerable regions like sub-Saharan Africa. Market integration, through trade and migration liberalisation, could play an important role in mitigating welfare losses.

VoxDev/ CEPR
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Climate change is pushing pest insects and mites into new territories. Many pests are migrating from the equator to cooler regions that used to keep them at bay.

Earth.com
A family observes the aftermath of flooding on the banks of the Danube
Research briefs

Rather than relying on isolated or top-down strategies, the researchers advocate for a whole-of-society approach that embraces cross-sectoral, multidisciplinary, and inclusive efforts.

PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd
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Extreme weather event or natural disaster type that was of most concern for First Nations people living off reserve, Métis and Inuit, aged 15 years and older, Canada, 2024

Government of Canada
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A powerful storm system wreaked havoc from Texas to Ohio for several days in early April 2025. A scientist explains why as global temperatures rise, conditions can lead to more bouts of extreme precipitation.

Conversation Media Group, the
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