This study provides an analysis of the linkages between multi-hazard exposure, lack of resilience, resulting disaster risk with related loss and damage, sovereign debt risks, and the lack of investment into resilience building. The COVID-19 pandemic has come on top of the climate crisis, the existential threat of our time.

Understanding how the Papua New Guinea (PNG) agricultural economy and associated household consumption is affected by climate, market and other shocks requires attention to linkages and substitution effects across various products and the markets in which they are traded.

This publication discusses urban sanitation in Papua New Guinea and opportunities to make water and sanitation more inclusive, including the introduction of an operational fecal sludge management framework.

Land degradation exacerbates the unique vulnerabilities of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to environmental challenges, such as climate change, flash floods, soil erosion, lagoon siltation, coastal erosion and sea level rise, undermining their economic potential.

A powerful earthquake stuck Papua New Guinea on Tuesday evening, triggering a tsunami alert for the country and for the nearby Solomon Islands.

Politicians in Papua New Guinea have thrown their support behind a plan to power the country’s development through coal.

A 5.0-magnitude earthquake jolted 42km E of Madang, Papua New Guinea at 17:21:53 GMT on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

This framework is closely aligned with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The Sendai Framework was originally endorsed by UN Member States, including PNG, back in 2015 in Sendai. Japan.

Between May and July 2018, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) implemented a household-level survey in four areas of PNG: the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (South Bougainville near Buin), Madang (Middle Ramu near Kwanga Station), East Sepik (near Maprik) and West Sepik (near Nuku).

The UK has experienced the driest start to a summer since records began in 1961, but safe drinking water remains in plentiful supply.

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