LECTURE 22: Using Climate Science to Prepare for Disasters: Early Warning, Early Action, and Forecast-based Financing

Anthropogenic climate change is known to cause changes to the frequency, magnitude, duration, and spatial extent of a range of extreme climate and weather events. Coupled with this, increasing exposure and vulnerability related to factors such as population change, socio-economic development, and urbanization lead to more severe disaster impacts, particularly for the most vulnerable communities (IPCC, 2012). In this context of increasing disaster risk, adaptation approaches integrated with disaster risk reduction and emergency management are necessary, enabling communities to more effectively manage risk at shorter-term climate and weather timescales (Nalau et al, 2016; de Coninck et al., 2018; Gros et al., 2019)…