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⚠️🌍Climate doesn’t stop at borders – how we manage climate risks shouldn’t either.

This simulated example shows how climate shocks could cascade to trigger a food security crisis in Europe. 🍽️

🔗By mapping cross-border climate impacts and understanding how they cascade, we can craft smarter, coordinated responses. Recognizing interconnected risks is key to preventing local crises from becoming global disasters.

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💰🛡️ Anticipatory action is a smart way to take early humanitarian actions based on early warnings of disasters.

📈 This requires anticipatory finance – pre-arranged funds that are released before the onset of a specific shock event, based on forecasts or predictive analysis, to fund pre-defined activities that aim to prevent or reduce acute humanitarian impacts before they unfold.

🤝 Most anticipatory action implementers break anticipatory finance down into:
(a) a small percentage that is released on a first trigger for “readiness” actions, specifically to pre-position goods and personnel, and
(b) a larger amount triggered for “activation” when full activities commence.

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After the 2011 earthquake, Sendai City reinvented itself as a resilient, environmentally friendly city for a secure future – becoming Japan's first MCR2030 Resilience Hub in 2024.

Now it is helping its businesses survive the next one.

"As emphasised in the Sendai Framework, the engagement of diverse stakeholders is essential. Small and medium-sized enterprises [SMEs], which play a vital role in Sendai City's local economy, must strengthen preparedness and business continuity systems during normal times," says Mayor Kazuko Kohri.

Sendai is working with local SMEs in eight areas:
1️⃣ Raising knowledge and awareness
2️⃣ Promoting BCP formulation and review
3️⃣ Strengthening training and recovery systems
4️⃣ Building supply chain resilience
5️⃣ Engaging diverse stakeholders
6️⃣ Activating external support and networks
7️⃣ Promoting digital and IT tools
8️⃣ Sharing lessons and best practices

Local economies depend on small businesses, and Sendai is building the systems to keep them thriving.

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When two or more hazards collide, the impact can far exceed the sum of its parts.

Compound events – hazards occurring simultaneously or in close succession – are harder to predict and harder to manage – and are becoming increasingly common as the climate changes.

These three examples show the pattern:
🌡️ Australia, 2019 – Extreme heat was followed by flooding that killed more than 500,000 cattle and caused economic losses of more than US$1.2 billion.
🌊 Japan, 2018 – Severe flooding damaged homes and disrupted electricity networks, leaving communities far more exposed to the intense heatwave that followed.
🔥 Mediterranean, 2021 – Temperatures approaching 50°C and coastal flooding struck simultaneously, overwhelming infrastructure and emergency response.

Traditional risk assessments often evaluate hazards in isolation – this can lead to a major underestimation of risk

Reducing compound risk requires integrated responses: resilient infrastructure, nature-based solutions, early warning systems, and risk-informed urban planning that accounts for combined – not just individual – hazard scenarios.

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❄️ Why do severe winter storms still occur in a warming climate?

Climate change does not remove cold weather: it changes how it behaves.

As global temperatures rise, winters are milder on average and snow cover is declining. Yet warming also alters atmospheric dynamics, sometimes increasing winter disruption.

Key mechanisms include:
🌀 Polar vortex shifts – when weakened or displaced, it can amplify jet stream swings and push Arctic air south.
💧 More atmospheric moisture – warmer air and oceans fuel heavier snow, sleet, or freezing rain when cold air is present.
⚖️ Competing effects – reduced temperature contrasts can weaken storms, while extremes may intensify.

The result: fewer cold events overall, but potentially sharper impacts when they occur.

Understanding this complexity strengthens forecasting, early warnings, and preparedness.

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Floods are becoming more frequent, more intense and are impacting more lives.

🛡️Resilience must shape how we plan, invest, and respond to protect lives and support economies,

Today, on World Environment Day, we call for accelerated action to protect and preserve the natural environment, as part of efforts to reduce disaster risks. 🌱

Assistive technology users are too often invisible in disaster preparedness. That has to change.

🔹 Access to assistive technology is a recognised right
🔹 Inclusive disaster risk reduction protects people from foreseeable risks
🔹 Assistive technology saves lives – when delivered alongside essential inclusion measures
🔹 Assistive technology builds resilience in everyday life, not just in emergencies
🔹 Governments must ensure assistive technology is available, accessible and affordable
🔹 Assistive technology users must lead the solutions
🔹 Co-design with organisations of people with disabilities must span preparedness, early warning and risk communication
🔹 Excluding assistive technology users puts lives at risk

Today, 4 June, is World Day for Assistive Technology. Learn more about leveraging assistive technology for inclusive disaster risk reduction and climate action in this policy brief by UNDRR and ATscale, the Global Partnership for Assistive Technology ➡️ https://ow.ly/Ev9c50Z7whh Unlock The Everyday