Brazil

This study unpacks the role of anthropogenic climate change and the preceding El Niño conditions on the extreme rainfall using a probabilistic event attribution.

This study investigates the hydrologic and hydraulic parameters that influence the rainfall–runoff simulation in urban areas using the PCSWMM model.

The National Secretariat for Protection and Civil Defense (Sedec), of the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development (MIDR), is the central body of the National System for Protection and Civil Defense (Sinpdec).

This guide presents a practical and participatory methodology to help decision-makers, institutions, and communities to better understand their local food systems and the risks they face.

This paper provides the preliminary results of an inventory of the landslides triggered by the late April and early May 2024 storm, in which the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil experienced the most severe meteorological event in its history.

This report presents a rapid valuation of damages caused by 2024 wildfires in Brazil highlighting the significant economic impacts with the aim of raising awareness for the need to improve fire management through more funds.

This climate risk profile on Brazil provides a high-level assessment of the country’s exposure to climate risks and changing weather patterns.

This study examines how public policies and non-intentional disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures contribute to the SDP in the Revólver basin – a region in Brazil affected by a compound hydrological disaster and COVID-19.