Blog | The threat of a super El Niño exposes the limits of today’s climate finance

By Natalia Rubiano   ‘’The world must treat [El Niño] as the urgent climate warning it is.’’ – Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General El Niño, the naturally recurring climate pattern linked to warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific, was officially declared on 11 June by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration […]

Blog | Managing heat wave disaster risks: Strategies to mitigate a warming world

By Ari Rakatama   Today, heat waves have transitioned from occasional events to persistent and intensified threats that endanger lives, economies, and ecosystems. Heat waves, characterised by extended periods of excessively high temperatures, often exacerbated by humidity, are particularly hazardous in urban environments due to the ‘urban heat island’ effect. Here, concrete buildings, asphalt roads, […]