Strengthening resilience and raising climate ambition key for Asian and Pacific countries at COP26
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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…
The disaster and health nexus amid the COVID-19 pandemic: challenges of protecting at-risk communities
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Asif Ali (name changed) and his wife live with three children in a rural township bordering India and Bangladesh. Asif lost his job as a…
The Oxygen Express: How regional cooperation can help prepare for future pandemics
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In recent weeks, India’s second COVID-19 wave has been devastating, reaching world records for the total numbers of cases and deaths and…
The world is in lockdown, but tropical cyclones are not
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How do we weather a destructive tropical cyclone during a pandemic? A province in northern Philippines offers some practical pointers.
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Time and tide wait for no man
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“We have to learn from COVID… We can’t wish away systemic risk. It’s much much cheaper, much more effective to invest upfront in…
Why keeping global warming below 1.5°C is important but not enough
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The world has already warmed by around 1°C relative to pre-industrial baselines. According to the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on…