Disasters will be less devastating if we plan for them

This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Gareth Byatt, Risk & Resilience, Independent Consultant, Ilan Kelman, Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL In July 2023, a report by the UN agency responsible for disaster risk reduction, UNDRR, emphasized that disaster risks create many negative effects around the world and […]

How to design climate-resilient infrastructure: lessons from a disaster

This article is published in association with European Investment Bank.

This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Palesa-Vuyolwethu Tshandu, Masters Candidate New York University, Robert Wagner School of Public Service In 2022, major flooding in the South African province of KwaZulu Natal led to a devastating climate disaster.It caused significant damage to the region’s infrastructure, […]

It’s not just climate change driving natural disaster losses

This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Roger Grenier, Senior Vice President, Global Resilience Practice, Verisk Climate change is contributing to rising losses from natural disasters, including increased damage to physical assets and disruption to business operations. But an underreported driver of losses is the […]

Can we feed everyone without unleashing disaster? Read on

This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. The global population is on pace to expand by about 2 billion in the next 30 years, and a lot more of us are now eating far wider variety of things than our parents or grandparents ever did. For […]

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