In the 12/02/2025 edition:
Global climate change is driving new disaster risks worldwide, and the latest reports from Nov–Dec 2025 highlight major impacts, resilience efforts, and adaptation challenges.
DRR Community Voices: COP30: A mixed bag of success, but a clear turning point for adaptation and resilience
By Sanjay Srivastava on Dec 01, 2025 08:41 pm
COP30 in Belém, Brazil, will be remembered as a summit of contradictions -marked by both political friction and significant breakthroughs.
News: Airbus says most of its recalled 6,000 A320 jets now modified
By Thomson Reuters on Dec 01, 2025 06:21 pm
Dozens of airlines from Asia to the United States said they had carried out a snap software retrofit ordered by Airbus, and mandated by global regulators, after a vulnerability to solar flares emerged in a recent mid-air incident on a JetBlue A320.
News: The crisis no one sees: How climate change is rewriting childhood in Pakistan
By Dawn Media Group on Dec 01, 2025 06:02 pm
Protecting children is not just limited to the provision of food, shelter, and education; it is also about ensuring their mental and emotional well-being.
News: Water shortages could derail UK’s net zero plans, study finds
By Guardian, the (UK) on Dec 01, 2025 05:51 pm
Tensions grow after research in England finds there may not be enough water for planned carbon capture and hydrogen projects.
News: Beyond preparedness: Why Nepal must fund road resilience
By The Annapurna Express on Dec 01, 2025 02:49 pm
Infrastructures built for a gentler historical climate remain worryingly defenseless to the “new normal” of intensifying future extremes. To break free from the disaster and repair loop, Nepal must embed “climate logic” into its development DNA.
News: How indigenous cultural burns can help heal climate-ravaged forests—and people
By Inside Climate News on Dec 01, 2025 02:47 pm
A fire expert on the difference between prescribed burns and cultural burns, and why we should incorporate both into modern forest management.
News: Death and devastation: why a rare equatorial cyclone and other storms have hit southern Asia so hard
By Conversation Media Group, the on Dec 01, 2025 02:46 pm
More than 900 people are dead, thousands more missing and millions affected by a band of cyclones and extreme monsoonal weather across southern Asia. Torrential rain has triggered the worst flooding in decades, accompanied by landslides.
News: Australia’s beloved weather website got a makeover – and infuriated users
By British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on Nov 28, 2025 05:43 pm
Affectionately known by Australians as the Bom, the agency’s long-awaited website redesign went live that morning, more than a decade after the last update.
News: Wildfire research through the lens: The ICFFR photo contest
By University of Coimbra on Nov 28, 2025 03:13 pm
Invitation to researchers, students, and practitioners worldwide to contribute compelling, high-resolution photographs that advance the visual communication of wildland fire science and management across all relevant disciplines.
News: Code for Earth 2025: Advancing energy system resilience with climate data
By Copernicus Climate Change Service on Nov 28, 2025 02:56 pm
The project Weather-Energy Analysis & Visualisation for Extremes (WEAVE) demonstrated how climate data from C3S can help Europe’s energy sector better adapt and plan for a more resilient and climate-smart future.
News: Three COP30 takeaways for humanitarians
By The New Humanitarian on Nov 28, 2025 12:55 pm
Adaptation finance – money to help lower-income countries prepare for and live with climate change impacts – has lagged for years, with just $26 billion provided in 2023 (when hundreds of billions are needed annually).
News: UNICEF and Humane World for Animals India host Telangana’s first-ever conference on animal-inclusive disaster risk reduction
By Humane World for Animals (Humane Society International) on Nov 28, 2025 12:53 pm
The event brought together experts, government agencies, disaster management authorities, policymakers, veterinary professionals and humanitarians to explore strategies for integrating animal welfare into disaster preparedness and response systems.
News: Why Hong Kong’s latest fire is so deadly—and not the city’s first
By Times Online on Nov 28, 2025 12:24 pm
Authorities are still investigating the fire’s cause, but their preliminary findings flagged the “unusual” speed at which it spread was potentially abetted by flammable materials.
News: ‘This was preventable’: Anger and unanswered questions after Hong Kong fire
By British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on Nov 28, 2025 12:20 pm
Questions are mounting as to how the fire at Wang Fuk Court spread so rapidly and who is responsible, with many calling it a “man-made disaster”.
News: Anger swelling in Hong Kong over deadliest fire in more than 70 years
By Guardian, the (UK) on Nov 28, 2025 12:14 pm
Some think leader John Lee’s focus on blaming bamboo scaffolding deflects from actual cause.
News: What is bamboo scaffolding and how did it worsen the Hong Kong fire?
By Al Jazeera Satellite Network on Nov 28, 2025 12:06 pm
Experts say the scaffolding likely helped the fire spread. At least 55 people have died, and hundreds are missing after the deadliest fire in Hong Kong in more than a century.
News: Indonesian islanders plant mangroves, seek justice as seas rise
By Context on Nov 28, 2025 11:49 am
Four island residents take a Swiss cement giant to court while restoring nature at home.
News: Massachusetts coastal zone management unveils 50-year plan to protect coastlines from rising seas and extreme weather
By Inside Climate News on Nov 28, 2025 11:44 am
The state’s new ResilientCoasts Initiative lays out adaptation plans to protect people, infrastructure and ecosystems—a costly effort that officials say will save more than it spends.
News: Study finds climate change increases flood risk in the southeast
By Maynooth University on Nov 28, 2025 11:27 am
The study uses two event definitions to understand the factors that contributed to flooding in the south-east. The first looks at the two-day rainfall event affecting Dublin, Wexford, and Wicklow, which were under an orange warning.
News: Iran’s president says capital must move from Tehran over ecological concerns
By Middle East Eye on Nov 27, 2025 04:02 pm
Experts warn drought and water mismanagement have made the city’s development unsustainable
News: One Platform to Understand and Manage Multiple Risks
By MYRIAD-EU on Nov 27, 2025 02:32 pm
Scientists, policymakers, risk planners, and the private sector can now access a new user-friendly digital platform that helps anticipate cascading hazards, such as droughts triggering forest fires or floods worsening water shortages.
DRR Community Voices: Peace and good institutions save lives from floods
By Paola Vesco, Nina von Uexkull, Jonas Vestby, Halvard Buhaug on Nov 27, 2025 01:40 pm
Countries with accountable and effective institutions and a prevalence of peace, experience substantially fewer deaths from flooding than fragile, conflict-affected societies – even after taking into account differences in countries’ development levels.
News: Protecting displaced families from flood risks in Nigeria
By Deltares on Nov 27, 2025 01:03 pm
In Dikwa, Nigeria, thousands of displaced families are hit by severe flooding each rainy season. In July 2024, heavy rainfall damaged more than 260 shelters and affected over 4,400 people.
News: Resilience from within: How anticipatory action can support communities to absorb, adapt and recover from climate- and conflict-driven crises
By Start Network on Nov 27, 2025 12:59 pm
This think piece by Heather Brown explores how anticipatory action (AA) can strengthen community resilience in the face of climate- and conflict-driven crises.
News: Universities are catalysts for global environmental action
By University of Leicester on Nov 27, 2025 12:55 pm
As we approach COP30, the global climate summit, universities must assert themselves as leaders in environmental transformation. They are not only centres of learning but also engines of innovation, collaboration, and civic engagement.
News: The young and the displaced: why loss and damage demands action
By Avoidable Deaths Network on Nov 27, 2025 12:50 pm
For many children in low-lying islands, African villages, or rural Asian towns, climate change has already robbed them of identity. Culture, which fosters belonging, is lost when they can no longer set foot on ancestral lands.
News: Using COP as an opportunity to reflect on the relationship between climate change and disaster risk reduction
By Avoidable Deaths Network on Nov 27, 2025 12:48 pm
In Japan, disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures and climate change policies have, for many years, been promoted as separate efforts.
News: Climate leadership for climate action
By Avoidable Deaths Network on Nov 27, 2025 12:41 pm
As the world faces unprecedented challenges from the climate crisis, deteriorating biodiversity, and the tolling of alarm bells over energy security, the crying need for climate leadership is in the spotlight.
News: When climate crises become health crises: the hidden impact on pregnant women
By Avoidable Deaths Network on Nov 27, 2025 12:37 pm
Climate change isn’t just about rising seas and carbon emissions—it’s a health crisis, especially for women of reproductive age in disaster-prone regions. When disasters strike, access to essential reproductive healthcare often disappears.
News: Seeds of resilience: Lessons from Odisha for a climate-just future
By Avoidable Deaths Network on Nov 27, 2025 12:29 pm
As the global community gathers at COP30 to advance the implementation of loss and damage mechanisms, the lived realities of smallholder farmers in rural India emphasize the urgency while showing a pathway to adapt.
News: Reaching $120 Billion in international adaptation finance is possible — here’s what it takes
By World Resources Institute on Nov 26, 2025 05:21 pm
Accelerating adaptation finance remains an urgent priority for global climate action, particularly for developing countries and communities facing the brunt of climate impacts.
News: The world’s little-known volcanoes pose the greatest threat
By Conversation Media Group, the on Nov 26, 2025 04:50 pm
The next global volcanic disaster is more likely to come from volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely monitored than from the likes of famous volcanoes such as Etna in Sicily or Yellowstone in the US.
News: 5 outcomes from COP30: What the Belém political package really delivered
By United Nations University (UNU) on Nov 26, 2025 04:49 pm
After two weeks of talks, countries adopted a bundle of decisions now referred to as the Belém Political Package.
News: Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we mapped where Antarctica’s ice melt would have the biggest impact
By Conversation Media Group, the on Nov 26, 2025 04:48 pm
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles.
News: Avoiding and responding to peak groundwater
By Eos – AGU on Nov 26, 2025 02:25 pm
A new review shows how rising demand, shrinking supplies, and policy decisions together shape when groundwater use peaks and what can be done to avoid long-term depletion.
News: Locally led action, between vision and responsibility: where do we go from here?
By Start Network on Nov 26, 2025 02:20 pm
It won’t be difficult today to come across humanitarian fora and conferences where locally led action is on the agenda and the participants’ ambition to make progress on it is reaffirmed and publicly supported. Yet, progress lags behind.
News: Research shows AI earthquake tools forecast aftershock risk in seconds
By British Geological Survey on Nov 26, 2025 02:16 pm
Earthquake forecasting tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) can forecast the risk of aftershocks seconds after the initial tremor, a study by BGS, the University of Edinburgh and University of Padua suggests.
News: Too hot to care? How climate change is challenging home care in rural and regional Australia
By Charles Sturt University on Nov 26, 2025 01:56 pm
A new three-year Charles Sturt University research project has uncovered how extreme heat is quietly disrupting home care services in rural New South Wales.
News: Rising heat, failing kidneys: Climate’s hidden toll on migrant workers
By Grist Magazine on Nov 26, 2025 01:42 pm
Migrant workers return from Gulf countries with failed kidneys, victims of extreme temperatures, grueling labor, and a global system that leaves them unprotected.
News: New global standard on resilient infrastructure launched: ISO 22372 sets a benchmark for safer, risk-informed development
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Nov 26, 2025 07:51 am
With ISO 22372 now in place, infrastructure stakeholders have a shared, practical, and internationally recognized guide for building a safer, more resilient future in alignment with the Principles for Resilient Infrastructure.
News: UNDRR launches global media training course to strengthen disaster reporting
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Nov 26, 2025 05:45 am
As disasters become increasingly complex and climate impacts intensify worldwide, UNDRR is launching a new online training course, Covering disasters from a different lens, at the 9th ABU Media Summit on Climate Action and Disaster Prevention.
DRR Community Voices: Children should help shape disaster preparedness
By Maciej Pawlik on Nov 25, 2025 06:49 pm
Children may be small, but their perspectives are powerful. In a world where climate-related disasters are growing more frequent and severe, listening to these young voices is pivotal, especially as it’s their future.
News: Call for applications: Young Climate Leaders – Ideas Lab 2026
By Centre for European Policy Studies on Nov 25, 2025 05:08 pm
Ideas Lab continues to be one of the most influential public policy events in Brussels, bringing together policymakers, researchers, business leaders and civil society to debate the major challenges and opportunities facing Europe.
News: State updates sea level rise viewer, a tool to support smarter coastal planning
By Maui Now on Nov 25, 2025 04:06 pm
The Hawaiʻi Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission has launched an updated version of the State of Hawaiʻi Sea Level Rise Viewer, an online tool giving communities and officials clearer insight into the growing threats facing our coastlines
News: Human-induced climate change compounded by socio-economic water stressors increased severity of 5-year drought in Iran and Euphrates and Tigris basin
By World Weather Attribution on Nov 25, 2025 03:57 pm
From boreal winter 2020/21 onwards, a large region in West Asia, encompassing the Fertile Crescent around the rivers Euphrates and Tigris as well as Iran has suffered from exceptionally low rains and elevated temperatures.
News: Building climate-resilient transport systems in Small Island Developing States
By Global Center on Adaptation on Nov 25, 2025 03:56 pm
The World Bank has developed an approach called the Transport Infrastructure Lifecycle Framework to support SIDS enhance the resilience of their road, maritime, and aviation sectors.
News: Projects in Nigeria and Uganda win the 2025 competition for youth-led initiatives
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Nov 25, 2025 03:47 pm
Two youth-led initiatives promoting resilience to floods and droughts in Nigeria and Uganda have been selected as winners of the 2025 Global Integrated Flood and Drought Management Youth-Led Projects Competition.
News: Restoring nature, early warning systems and governance are key to protecting the Mediterranean from future floods
By Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications on Nov 25, 2025 03:44 pm
The Mediterranean region is one of the epicenters of climate change: it is warming 20% faster than other areas and is already experiencing the impacts of extreme events such as heatwaves, large wildfires, biodiversity loss, and torrential rains.
News: USA: The rising heat threat inside football stadiums
By Grist Magazine on Nov 25, 2025 03:17 pm
Excessive heat and more frequent medical incidents at college football stadiums in the South could be a warning sign for universities across the country.
News: WMO welcomes G20 Summit Declaration on Early Warnings For All
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Nov 25, 2025 02:27 pm
The G20 summit hosted by South Africa reaffirmed the importance of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.
News: Indonesian, I-Kiribati leaders honored for advancing inclusive disaster risk reduction and community-led early warning systems
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for Asia and Pacific on Nov 25, 2025 11:53 am
The WIN DRR Leadership Awards 2025 have been granted to Ms Nashin Mahtani of Indonesia and Ms Takena Redfern of Kiribati in recognition of their groundbreaking contributions to safeguarding communities across Asia and the Pacific.