As the destruction and costs from weather- and climate-related disasters in the U.S. continued to rise in 2025—the Los Angeles wildfires alone caused over $60 billion in damage, the most expensive ...
On the night of October 3-4, 2023, thousands of people living along the Teesta River in Sikkim and West Bengal, India, had to urgently evacuate their homes as a surge of water and debris rushed down ...
When disaster strikes, businesses face immediate and costly challenges: How do they keep operations running, protect their assets and recover quickly? While no company is immune to crises, those with ...
Natural disasters such as floods, droughts, earthquakes, and extreme heat have become more frequent, with higher economic costs, due to climate change, urbanization, population growth and growing ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica Sanders covers climate justice and sustainability from the DMV. A year already marked by record-smashing heatwaves, ...
President Prabowo Subianto has approved Rp10.6 trillion (over US$625 million) in additional fiscal transfers to three ...
In Colombia, World Bank support helped extend social protection to approximately 340,000 households and supported the incorporation of disaster risk management into new construction, renovation, or ...
Our eLibrary offers over 25,000 IMF publications in multiple formats. Disasters have posed significant economic costs to Bangladesh, and financing needs associated with disaster response are estimated ...
The Tema Metropolitan Assembly has inaugurated its Metropolitan Disaster Management Committee, a strategic move aimed at ...