Crisis Protection 2.0: Future-Proofing Our World - A Roadmap to Close the Crisis Protection Gap Through Pre-arranged Finance - High-Level Panel on Closing the Crisis Protection Gap January 2025

Lloyds Register Foundation and Gallup World Risk Poll 2024 Report - What the world worries about global perceptions and experiences of risk and harm

‘Hold fast to our common humanity’: UN marks 80 years since death camps were liberated | UN News

Crisis Group's Watch List identifies ten countries facing deadly conflict, humanitarian emergency or other crises in 2025

Nearly a quarter of a billion children’s schooling was disrupted by climate crises in 2024 – UNICEF

Learning interrupted | UNICEF

‘Hold fast to our common humanity’: UN marks 80 years since death camps were liberated | UN News

Australia - Wildfires (CatNat, JRC GWIS, media) 29 January 2025 Daily Flash

Brazil - Floods and severe weather in São Paulo City (NOAA-CPC, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 27 January 2025) - Brazil | ReliefWeb

Sao Paulo storm brings floods, chaos and lightning - BBC News

National assessment of flood and coastal erosion risk in England 2024 - GOV.UK

National assessment of flood and coastal erosion risk in England 2024 Environment Agency UK

WHO verifies Niger as the first country in the African Region to eliminate onchocerciasis

WHO: Guinea eliminates human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem

More than 46,000 children out of school in Catatumbo Region in Colombia, facing threats of kidnapping, recruitment, and violence - Colombia | ReliefWeb

Myanmar on the brink as conflict fuels hunger | World Food Programme

Recent Papers of Note

Louise Elstow and Kristen MacAskill, Centre for Sustainable Development, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University Procuring for Adaptation: A guide for incorporating climate adaptation into healthcare investment decisions Published: 14 Jan 2025
Sharan, A., Baumann, L., Sapalo, N., Gaillard, J., Dwyer, E., & Salamanca, A. (2025). What’s “holding back change”? Opportunities and challenges for the ‘participation’ and ‘inclusion’ of people with diverse SOGIESC in disaster risk reduction.Climate and Development, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2025.2451973
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters (2025). https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/, DOI: 25921/stkw-7w73

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