Explore the East and North-East Asia riskscape and how much countries can lose annually from multiple hazards under the current situation and under two climate change scenarios.
Explore how much member states of ECO need to invest to adapt to the expanding riskscape and their potential investment priorities.
Explore how much member states of BIMSTEC need to invest to adapt to the expanding riskscape and their potential investment priorities.
The ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee (TC) at its 53rd Online Session decided to convene the 16th Integrated Workshop in 2021 in ESCAP facility in Bangkok, Thailand. Due to the still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the complication arising from mutant strain cases around the world, the 16th IWS will be organized virtually, from 2-3 December 2021. The main theme for the 16th Integrated Workshop is “Strengthening Impact-based Forecasting for Improving the Capacity of Typhoon-related Disaster Risk Reduction”.
A person in the Asia-Pacific region is four times more at risk of natural hazards than a person in Africa and sixteen times more than someone in North America or Europe. The “riskscape” of the region stems not only from its inherent natural, biological and environmental hazards but also from socio-economic vulnerabilities and rapid urbanization. In this region, exposure to climate events increases inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, by 0.24 percentage points.
Recent research by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has shown that the world is likely to reach or exceed 1.5°C of warming much earlier than previously anticipated.
The world has already warmed by around 1°C relative to pre-industrial baselines. According to the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released last month, an additional 0.5°C of warming will increase the risks of weather and climate extremes in many places.
The past five years have been the hottest on record in Asia and the Pacific. Unprecedented heatwaves have swept across our region, cascading into slow onset disasters such as drought. Yet heat is only part of the picture. Tropical cyclones have struck new, unprepared parts of our region and devastatingly frequent floods have ensued. In Iran, these affected 10 million people this year and displaced 500,000 of which half were children. Bangladesh is experiencing its fourth wave of flooding in 2019. Last year, the state of Kerala in India faced the worst floods in a century.
Climate connection of July 2021 floods in Western Europe, China and India