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By 2050, Fiji’s annual losses due to extreme weather events could reach 6.5 percent of GDP because of the impact of climate change, with more than 32,000 people pushed into hardship every year.

Major international partnerships are mobilizing large-scale financing to protect people who the most vulnerable from climate impacts, reflecting the fact that building a climate resilient world is essential to secure hard-won development gains.

Out of 7.5 billion people in the world, more than 1 billion - or one in seven people - live on less than $1.25 (1.13 euros) a day. The number of those living in extreme poverty could rise sharply by 2030 unless governments plan better for disasters, the W

Residents of cities in developing countries risk plunging further into poverty by 2030 if urban leaders do not take advantage of global pools of capital to finance urban resilience, according to a report by the World Bank and the Global Facility for Disas

An expert review has been launched to determine how effective the Caribbean’s early warnings were during the 2017 hurricane season in order to strengthen resilience against future disasters.

RMS, the world’s leading catastrophe risk management firm, today announced that governments will have free access to RMS(one)®, the company’s real-time exposure and risk management platform, to directly access catastrophe models from both public and priva

Could social media be useful in tackling the challenges posed by natural calamities? The answer is yes, as a World Bank team, found out from the response elicited from the officials during the devastating Hudhud cyclone.

Natural disasters push 26 million people into poverty and cost the world about $520 billion every year — which is about 60 percent lower than is usually reported, according to a new World Bank study.

Updating early warning systems to keep pace with the fast increase in extreme weather events is vital in the struggle to prevent disasters and save lives.

The Southwest Indian Ocean Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative (SWIO RAFI) will be launched during the fifth Regional Platform for Risk Transfer Mechanisms (April 28-30), hosted by the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC).