Policy briefs

This policy brief explores the link between human and ecosystem vulnerability and provides key insights on how nature contributes to preventing disasters and reducing people’s vulnerability and exposure to them.

This brief addresses how climate change drives systemic risk and loss globally, especially in vulnerable states. It calls for integrated climate and disaster risk management, backed by data and funding, to address slow-onset hazards.

This policy brief explores challenges faced in urban disaster resilience. The world’s population passed eight billion in late 2022, with much of the increase concentrated in ever-expanding urban areas.

This policy brief explores challenges faced in the integration of risk considerations in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Risk mirrors today’s interconnected world, increasingly assuming a systemic nature.

This policy brief explores challenges faced in gender-responsive disaster risk reduction. Gender inequality, coupled with climate and environment crises, is the greatest sustainable development challenge of the present time.

This policy brief explores the challenges faced in financing disaster prevention and de-risking investment.

This policy brief explores the challenges faced in disaster risk governance in relation to the climate emergency.