International Reports & Resources

Catastrophic Risks

OECD. (2026). Financial Prottection Against Catastrophic Riskshttps://www.oecd.org/en/publications/financial-protection-against-catastrophic-risks_32a3acd7-en.html

OECD. (2026). Building Resilience through Disaster Risk Management in Intermediary Cities. https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/building-resilience-through-disaster-risk-management-in-intermediary-cities_b2f1efb1-en/full-report.html

Jen et al., (2025) "The State of Global Catastrophic Risk Research: A Bibliometric Review," Earth System Dynamics, 16, 1053–1084. https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/1053/2025/esd-16-1053-2025.pdf

Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. Co-Chair's Summary of the 8th Session of the Platform, June 2-6, 2025, https://globalplatform.undrr.org/media/107578/download?startDownload=20250619

UN Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) maintains a "global risk data collection": https://www.preventionweb.net/understanding-disaster-risk/disaster-losses-and-statistics/global-risk-data-sets

The Global Fund for Disaster Risk Reduction has issued their 2023 Annual Report: https://www.gfdrr.org/en/publication/gfdrr-annual-report-2023

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction is a major international agreeement on how nations should take action to reduce disaster risks.   Learn more  about the Framework here: https://www.undrr.org/implementing-sendai-framework/what-sendai-framework

The City Resilience Program of the Global Fund for Disasster Risk Reduction has an extensive video series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlxZ8h0dxpsAHTi9wQ2z-63y9U8UD0fDY

Climate Adaptation

Climate Brief, Interactive map of approximately 600 studies of nearly 800 extreme weather events: https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-studies/index.html (update March 2026)

Climate Brief, Interactive map of nearly 1700 case studies of climate change adaptation, https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/climate-adaptation-papers/index.html

UNEP, Adaptation Gap Report 2025, https://www.unep.org/resources/adaptation-gap-report-2025

World Resources Institute, Global Commission on Adaptation, Adapt Now Report (2019), https://www.wri.org/initiatives/global-commission-adaptation/adapt-now-report

Flooding 

The Global Flood Database provides the "World's Largest Collection of Floodmaps": https://global-flood-database.cloudtostreet.ai/#interactive-map

Wildfires

European Commission, Advance report on Forest Fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2025, https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC146199

Kelley, D. I., et al. (2025).: State of Wildfires 2024–2025, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 5377–5488, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5377-2025