This volume, Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate
Change Adaptation, is a Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change …

This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SREX) explores the
challenge of understanding and managing the risks of climate extremes to advance climate …

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) periodically develops an
assessment of the state of the climate. The report was developed in 2012, including a new …

Disaster signifies extreme impacts suffered when hazardous physical events interact with
vulnerable social conditions to severely alter the normal functioning of a community or a …

Climate change has become an important factor for many environmental disasters in
vulnerable communities and ecosystems. Poverty, poor education and health facilities and …

Actions that range from incremental steps to transformational changes are essential for
reducing risk from weather and climate extremes (high agreement, robust evidence).[8.6 …

Adaptation to climate change and disaster risk reduction both focus on society-risk
dynamics. However, each field does so through different actors and institutions, and with …

The severity of the impacts of extreme and non-extreme weather and climate events
depends strongly on the level of vulnerability and exposure to these events (high …

This paper discusses climate-development linkages, with a focus on developing countries
but also drawing lessons from the experiences of developed countries. Increases in weather …