Check out the photo essay developed when working in Guinea, a French-speaking country in Sub-Saharan Africa. Guinea is desperately poor and particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Sometimes the dirt road at the school crossing is flooded during…
Unbreakable: Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters
Because the poor tend to work in sectors that are vulnerable to extreme weather events, live in fragile housing in high-risk areas, and have fewer resources, they are disproportionately affected by natural disasters and often are driven deeper into poverty…
New York Times Reports Business Support of Climate Agreement
The New York Times has reported the statement signed by 365 business leaders and investors urging President-Elect Trump to support the Climate Agreement concluded in Paris last year. Investing in a low-carbon economy is not only good for the environment, it…
Disaster Risk Analysis from The Economist
A report released this week, Towards Disaster-Risk Sensitive investments: The Disaster Risk-Integrated Operational Risk Model, presents the results of a pilot study of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s model conducted from January to April this year in twenty disaster-prone locations: Australia, Bangladesh, China, Greece,…
Disaster Risk Reduction Course
A Resilient Future: Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction, a course offered by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, is now available online for free or for $50 if you desire a certificate of completion. This course demonstrates how science…