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Across the world, people are already using migration as a way of coping with climate change. Climate change is intensifying disasters like droughts, and individuals are relocating to protect their lives and livelihoods. Governments negotiating at COP must acknowledge this new reality. By making migration safer, we enable more people to use it as a means of building their climate…

The technical workshop focused largely on better understanding and assessing the phenomenon itself by breaking the topic down into four sub-topics: (1) considering climate variability and drought assessment; (2) understanding drought in an aridifying (drier-trending) climate; (3) discerning drought in a humidifying (wetter-trending) climate; and (4) defining drought in terms of risk and…

Indicator 1.2.2: drought—headline finding: the global land area affected by extreme drought per year increased from 18% in 1951–60 to 47% in 2013–22 In 2022, extreme drought affected every continent. Impacts on crop yields and loss of livestock worsened food insecurity, and water shortages affected water security in vulnerable areas Published annually, the Lancet Countdown on…

The Guidelines for WMO Evaluation of Records of Weather and Climate Extremes is a living document which describes the Record evaluation and verification process, its initiation, organization and related committees leading the evaluations work and decision making on declaring a new Record or decommissioning an old one. The document also describes the scientific and measurement challenges and the…

This report, developed by the World Economic Forum’s New Frontiers of Nutrition community in collaboration with Accenture, advocates for a significant shift in strategy for global food system transformation towards a focus on both human and planetary health. This report, developed by the World Economic Forum’s New Frontiers of Nutrition community in collaboration with Accenture, advocates…

Drought data shows “an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale”: UN UNCCD launches ‘Global Drought Snapshot’ report at COP28 in collaboration with International Drought Resilience Alliance (IDRA) Recent drought-related data based on research in the past two years and compiled by the UN point to “an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale, where the massive…