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This fact sheet summarizes key findings highlighting the linkages between climate, hunger and malnutrition. The document has been published in advance of an in-depth report by the WFP on this issue.

This photo gallery exposes how extremely vulnerable Bangladesh is to natural disasters, with cyclones and flooding occurring regularly. Flooding means that families have to flee for drier ground at least once a year. Local people are adjusting their farming system, but still necessitate the help of the Vulnerable Group Development programme.

This activity report analyses the financial mechanisms available to both developed and developing countries, and their use, to transfer risks of weather related disasters. In developed countries, livelihood and asset losses sustained in natural disasters are often covered by international insurance, capital markets, or simply by government budgets that act as contingency funds. These ‘weather risk transfer tools’ protect livelihoods by facilitating timely support and thereby limiting the economic damage of disasters. Many developing countries are particularly exposed to natural disaster risk, but do not make use of these risk transfer instruments. WFP tries to promote their use because the consequences of climate change will cause the exposure to natural disasters and their severity to increase.

This video shows an interview with Adil Najam, a leading expert on issues related to developing country environmental policy, on climate change and food security. Mr. Najam is currently Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations and of Geography & Environment, both at Boston University.

This statement talks about the increasing number of climate and weather-related disasters and the impact that these may have on vulnerable people. While the number of hungry people has reached 1 billion, the number of people at risk from climate and weather-related disasters has increased to 2.6 billion.

This analytical report reviews global studies of the expected effects of climate change on hunger and provides an overview of necessary actions to address the challenge, especially focusing on food access.

This analytical report addresses the work of the WFP in its relation to climate change. Indeed, there are more than one billion hungry people in the world – and climatic changes threaten to significantly increase the number of people at risk of hunger and undernutrition.

This fact sheet explains that responding to increased hunger and undernutrition caused by climatic changes will be a key pillar of WFP’s work in the 21st century – providing emergency relief when disasters strike, helping devastated families recover and rebuild, and assisting vulnerable communities adapt to more difficult and uncertain times.

This fact sheet brings together a number of findings from UN experts, demonstrating the impacts of climate change on food security. It contains statements from the IPCC and several leading humanitarian and relief organizations.

This fact sheet looks at the fact that climate change threatens to significantly increase hunger and malnutrition worldwide. Indeed, many of the communities that will bear the most serious consequences are already vulnerable and suffering from hunger, undernutrition and food insecurity.

The objective of these guidelines is to assist development practitioners in the process of incorporating climate change concerns into development programmes, projects, policies and strategies.

This slide presentation introduces the latest draft guidance for integrating Disaster Risk Reduction into the Common Country Assessments / UN Development Framework.

This slide presentation introduces the UN Development Framework from a disasters and climate change perspective. UNDF collects empirical information concerning risks and needs and puts in place practical measures to reduce risk related to climatic hazards. Furthermore, the organization incorporates risk related to climatic hazards considerations in development and measures progress in efforts to reduce them.

This slide presentation introduces the UN reforms on Disaster Risk Reduction since 1997 and efforts therein to integrate it in the Common Country Assessments, and link it to Climate Change.

This document briefly summarizes the 2007 Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group meeting’s outcomes. It then identifies steps and products for each of the WG’s topics of interest to encourage commitment to implement useful action.

This activity report briefly summarizes the 2007 Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group meeting’s outcomes. It then identifies steps and products for each of the WG’s identified interests to encourage commitment to implement.

This analytical report highlights that the 29th session of the IPCC meeting (Geneva, 1-4 September 2008) agreed to hold a scoping workshop on the IPCC Special Report on Managing Extreme Events to Advance Adaptation proposed by Norway and the ISDR system with support from Luxembourg. The workshop was to be held in early 2009 and to recommend to the IPCC’s 30th session whether it should undertake the proposed report.

In this policy document ISDR underlines that to reduce the risk of extreme climate events, action is required on twin policies: to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change, and to reduce the vulnerability of societies to inevitable climate change impacts. The document promotes these messages to ensure the integration of disaster risk reduction into current policies as well as in the post-2012 climate change regime.

This policy document provides an overview of progress on the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and the Hyogo Framework for Action at the national, regional and international levels.

This analytical report explains how the growing concern that human activities may affect the climate system led to the establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. The Panel assesses scientific, technical and socio-economic information, produces assessments based mainly on peer reviewed and published scientific/technical literature on climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. Its first assessment report served as the basis for the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which entered into force in 1994 and now includes 189 countries, known as “Parties” to the Convention.