Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Programme

Climate Adaptation and Extremes

The 4th Assessment Report of the IPCC (established by WMO and the United Nations Environmental Programme in 1988), provides the latest scientific consensus on the implication of climate variability and change on expected trends and characteristics  of meteorological, hydrological and climate –related hazards such as tropical cyclones, floods, droughts, etc. Such changes would result in new vulnerabilities and new patterns of risk. Some of the potential implications of climate change are highlighted in the table below.

Disaster risk management is a critical component of climate adaptation strategies. Emergence of capacities for forecasting the changing trends and characteristics of extreme events under climate variability and change scenarios provides critical information to supplement risk assessment capacities on the basis of statistical analysis of historical data.

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