Informes

Only days after the U.S. government announced it would fund nearly a million-dollar expansion of the Philippine’s risk intelligence and early warning system, Typhoon Nalgae (locally named Paeng), swept the nation—causing extreme flooding and landslides that…

Timor-Leste is an island nation that encompasses the eastern half of the tropical island of Timor. Situated on the southernmost edge of the Indonesian archipelago, northwest of Australia in Southeast Asia, Timor-Leste is ranked 141 out…

Hazard and capacity overview Bhutan is prone to natural hazards like earthquakes, floods, glacial lake outburst floods, landslides and forest fires. Making substantial progress in disaster risk reduction, the Royal Government of Bhutan has through its 2013 Disaster…

Number of children affected by flooding in Chad, Gambia, Pakistan and north-east Bangladesh highest in over 30 years SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt/GENEVA/NEW YORK, 8 November 2022 - As COP27 gets underway in Egypt, UNICEF warns this year…

There is a saying in the Pacific that when it comes to climate change, ‘we are not drowning; we are fighting’. This could also sum up the wider East Asia and Pacific region as a whole…

SUMMARY Pakistan is currently experiencing destruction and suffering on an unfathomable scale. Early estimates show that 33 million people – including 16 million children – have been affected by the floods, translating to roughly about one in…

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Wednesday, 2 November As delivered Thank you very much indeed, Dr. Tedros, it’s a great honour to be with you today on this extremely important subject of climate change and food insecurity. Thank you for having me. The world…

THE CONTEXT The United Nations has come up with multifaceted charters to comprehensively address the crisis of climate change. The Sendai Framework has given high priority to the issue of easy access to warning systems and its…

Kuala Lumpur, 27 October 2022 – After unprecedented floods continue to hit many parts of Asia, dangerous un-subsiding flood waters are now the crisis, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warns.…