How we can protect the world's most vulnerable countries against climate shocks
Extreme weather events and other climate change-linked disasters have devastated communities globally: be it cyclones along the coast of Southern Africa, flooding in parts of Canada, drought-induced wildfires in California, or the recent El Niño (ENSO) induced drought in Eastern and Southern Africa...
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| author | Ringler, Claudia Saleh, Turhan |
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| description | Extreme weather events and other climate change-linked disasters have devastated communities globally: be it cyclones along the coast of Southern Africa, flooding in parts of Canada, drought-induced wildfires in California, or the recent El Niño (ENSO) induced drought in Eastern and Southern Africa that affected 60 million people. These powerful events trigger humanitarian disasters and wreak economic havoc. They also raise an important question: How can we increase resilience to climate-induced shocks – particularly in poorer countries that are most vulnerable? Our new research, Building Resilience to Climate Shocks in Ethiopia, looks in detail into this question with a focus on the 2015/16 ENSO event that led to erratic rains, causing crop failure, spikes in food insecurity and acute undernutrition. While ENSO is a recurring climate pattern involving changes in the temperature of waters in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, the 2015/16 event was particularly strong. As a consequence of prolonged drought, 10 million Ethiopians required emergency food aid or other assistance on top of the 8 million already participating in Ethiopia’s social protection program. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1471512025-02-24T06:46:46Z How we can protect the world's most vulnerable countries against climate shocks Ringler, Claudia Saleh, Turhan shock drought climate change adaptation development programmes climate resilience resilience climate change Extreme weather events and other climate change-linked disasters have devastated communities globally: be it cyclones along the coast of Southern Africa, flooding in parts of Canada, drought-induced wildfires in California, or the recent El Niño (ENSO) induced drought in Eastern and Southern Africa that affected 60 million people. These powerful events trigger humanitarian disasters and wreak economic havoc. They also raise an important question: How can we increase resilience to climate-induced shocks – particularly in poorer countries that are most vulnerable? Our new research, Building Resilience to Climate Shocks in Ethiopia, looks in detail into this question with a focus on the 2015/16 ENSO event that led to erratic rains, causing crop failure, spikes in food insecurity and acute undernutrition. While ENSO is a recurring climate pattern involving changes in the temperature of waters in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, the 2015/16 event was particularly strong. As a consequence of prolonged drought, 10 million Ethiopians required emergency food aid or other assistance on top of the 8 million already participating in Ethiopia’s social protection program. 2019-07-26 2024-06-21T09:11:37Z 2024-06-21T09:11:37Z Opinion Piece https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147151 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293595 Open Access Ringler, Claudia; and Saleh, Turhan. 2019. How we can protect the world's most vulnerable countries against climate shocks. The Telegraph. Published online on July 26, 2019. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/can-protect-worlds-vulnerable-countries-climate-shocks/ |
| spellingShingle | shock drought climate change adaptation development programmes climate resilience resilience climate change Ringler, Claudia Saleh, Turhan How we can protect the world's most vulnerable countries against climate shocks |
| title | How we can protect the world's most vulnerable countries against climate shocks |
| title_full | How we can protect the world's most vulnerable countries against climate shocks |
| title_fullStr | How we can protect the world's most vulnerable countries against climate shocks |
| title_full_unstemmed | How we can protect the world's most vulnerable countries against climate shocks |
| title_short | How we can protect the world's most vulnerable countries against climate shocks |
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| topic | shock drought climate change adaptation development programmes climate resilience resilience climate change |
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