Natural Disasters
A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, storms, and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or damage property, and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake, the severity of which depends on the affected population's resilience and on the infrastructure available.In modern times, the divide between natural, man-made and man-accelerated is quite difficult to draw with human choices like architecture, fire, resource management or even climate change potentially playing a role. An adverse event will not rise …
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UN: The United Nations · 6 December 2024 English
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severe (geo)political divides, conflict, natural disasters due to climate change and economic uncertainty … severe (geo)political divides, conflict, natural disasters due to climate change and economic uncertainty …
ORF: Observer Research Foundation · 15 November 2024 English
Editor’s Note The climate crisis has evolved from a looming threat to an undeniable reality that demands immediate attention. The compounding and cascading effects of climate-induced extreme weather events are …
IMF has found that, in the aftermath of 11 natural disasters that hit developing countries between 1992 … assists Caribbean countries in the case of natural disasters that include hurricanes and excess rainfall … Developing Countries Vulnerable to Large Natural Disasters,” IMF Policy Paper No. 2019/020, June 26 …
IMF: International Monetary Fund · 15 November 2024 English
medium-term debt projections and analyzing risk scenarios. These scenarios include the impact of natural disasters and explore fiscal adjustment strategies via the non-extractive primary balance to achieve targeted …
scenarios. These scenarios include the impact of natural disasters and explore fiscal adjustment strategies … exposure to commodity price fluctuations and natural disasters, underscoring the need to conduct debt dynamics …
WHO: World Health Organization · 15 November 2024 English
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Events affecting many people at the same time (natural disasters, war/conflict). Step-by-step24 …
IMF: International Monetary Fund · 14 November 2024 English
Pakistan’s tight fiscal situation will require strong control over the budget in coming years. This report provides recommendations on steps to strengthen the country’s fiscal institutions to deliver a more …
the rupee, the high cost of responding to natural disasters and the pandemic, underperforming State-Owned …
Chatham House · 14 November 2024 English
A substantial gap exists between the amount of finance needed to achieve net zero in order to avert catastrophic impacts from climate change and the amount of finance available. The …
‘Insurers face $151bn in yearly losses from natural disasters, key research forecasts’, Financial Times …
NYU: New York University · 14 November 2024 English
COP29 marks an opportunity for the Global North to pay for its fair share of global climate finance and help small island developing states. The post Punching Above Their Weight: …
World Bank Group · 13 November 2024 English
of fragility. FSM is very vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change and has suffered significant … with FSM’s significant vulnerability to natural disasters and climate change and allows GoFSM to manage …
ACAPS · 13 November 2024 English
Regions and number of people affected by Trami and Kong-rey by 11 November • On 22 October 2024, Tropical Cyclone Trami (Kristine) brought heavy rain on Luzon, Mindanao, and Visayas …
malteser-international.org/en/current-issues/natural-disasters/el-nino.html https://www.eco-business.com …
World Bank Group · 13 November 2024 English
The Nigeria Development Update (NDU) is a World Bank report series produced twice a year that assesses recent economic and social developments and prospects in Nigeria, and places these in …
profile of the poor: the COVID-19 recession, natural disasters such as flooding, growing insecurity, the …
