5 maart 2020
Rising Risks in a Changing Climate
This presentation looks at rising risks in a changing climate, with a particular focus on weather extremes, and their impacts on the most vulnerable people. Starting from the risk framework used by the IPCC (combining hazards, exposure and vulnerability), this presentation looks at a range of risk drivers, from cases where we have identified trends in probabilities of specific hazards to contexts of rising exposure and vulnerability (and most often, a combination of the three). Key determinants of risk are poverty and fragility/conflict, and more generally the ability to withstand shocks and adapt to changing hazards.