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7 December 2017
Online

Effects of Various Disaster Management Approaches: An Evidence Summary

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

On 7 December 2017 (3:00 PM IST), The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is holding a webinar on "Effects of Various Disaster Management Approaches: An Evidence Summary".

ICCG Lecture Series on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG)

ICCG has launched new video lecture series on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). The lecture series features international experts who address the theme in a simple and accessible way, providing definitions, case studies, and examples of solutions and best practices.

15 January 2018 to 4 March 2018
Online

Disasters and Ecosystems: Resilience in a Changing Climate

TH Köln University of Applied Sciences, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Disasters have multiple impacts e.g., losses of lives, devastating impacts on infrastructure, damage to ecosystems and undermining development. On top of this, climate change is expected to aggravate existing disaster risks in many regions of the world.

October 2020

Resilient Tourism: Competitiveness in the Face of Disasters

World Bank Group
This report presents the case to government decision-makers, tourism private sector stakeholders, and development partners that the tourism industry must act urgently to integrate resilience as a core component of its competitiveness agenda.
June 2014

The PSI Global Resilience Project: Building disaster-resilient communities and economies

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), United Nations Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
The UNEP FI Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative (PSI) was launched at the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. This initiative serves as a global framework for the insurance industry to address environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities. 
October 2020

Resilient Industries: Competitiveness in the Face of Disasters

World Bank Group
Disasters offer the opportunity, with the right frameworks in place, to strengthen competitiveness through build back, better initiatives, and to adapt to long-term climate change and disaster risks. Despite these insights, and the urgency to act, however, the evidential basis for policy intervention and conceptual frameworks for industry resilience are far from definitive, and gaps in knowledge remain. As a result, industry resilience policy and action remain low in both the public and private sectors, and firms and economies still face significant costs of inaction.
23 October 2014

Natural disasters and climate change: an economic perspective

Stephane Hallegatte, World Bank, discusses managing natural risks in a changing environment, using an economic perspective to inform risk management and climate change adaptation.
October 2017

Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Europe

European Environment Agency (EEA)
This report Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Europe aims to contribute to better informed EU, national and subnational strategies, plans and multi-stakeholder processes for enhancing the coherence between Climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR).
June 2020

Assessing the Enabling Environment for Disaster Risk Financing: A country diagnostics toolkit

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
This diagnostics toolkit is designed to help countries assess the financial management of disaster risk and to provide a basis for them to enhance financial resilience through insurance and other risk transfer instruments.
8 February 2017
Online

The Triple Dividend of Resilience – A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG)

Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events?

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