Climate Change AND Extreme Weather

Climate change is causing more frequent and intense extreme weather events, resulting in widespread adverse impacts and related losses and damages to nature and people. Early warning systems to predict floods, droughts, and storms, for instance, are a proven, efficient, and cost-effective way to save lives and jobs, land and infrastructure, and support long-term sustainability. Advancing and accelerating early warning systems, along with coordinated disaster management on the ground, is key to saving lives. Countries with robust coverage of multi-hazard early warning systems experience mortality rates that are 8 times lower than those with limited or no early warnings.