Disasters and humanitarian relief

Discrimination

New 10/08/2022 – by Rainer Brockhaus

Development cooperation must become more inclusive

Policy makers and civil society must recognise inclusion as a cross-cutting task – and so must international development and humanitarian relief

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Climate-risk insurance

23/06/2022 – by Renate Bleich, Dirk Reinhard, et al.

Promising examples

There are many good approaches to managing climate risks

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Insurance

22/06/2022 – by Renate Bleich, Dirk Reinhard and Christian Barthelt

Managing climate risks

In low income countries, the business climate must improve for insurance companies

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Extreme weather

19/06/2022 – by Katie Cashman

Normalising disasters

North America’s wildfires, heatwaves, storms and floods are becoming more frequent, more dangerous and more costly

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Disaster response

14/06/2022 – by Wolf R. Dombrowsky

Learning from the catastrophe in the German Ahr Valley

The flooding in July 2021 could have been less disastrous if the authorities had learned from the past and from other countries

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Relevant reading

12/06/2022 – by Mahwish Gul

Climate hazards are increasing fast

UNEP demands fast climate action to prevent even more extreme weather

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Social protection

09/06/2022 – by Stefan Beierl

How social-protection systems matter in the climate crisis

Social safety nets help to protect disadvantaged people from climate impacts

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Drought

01/06/2022 – by Christoph Schneider-Yattara

Multiple nexus

Lessons to learn from the Horn of Africa’s third consecutive year of drought

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Drought

31/05/2022 – by Christoph Schneider-Yattara

Linking humanitarian relief to development and peacebuilding

Lessons to learn from the Horn of Africa’s third consecutive year of drought

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Our view

27/05/2022 – by Hans Dembowski

There is no excuse for lacking action anymore

Extreme weather is no longer only a natural phenomenon, but exacerbated by human-made climate change

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Global heating

19/05/2022 – by Mireille Kanyange

Lake Tanganyika: levees needed

Tens of thousands of Burundians have been displaced by impacts of climate crisis

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