Update. I just signed the open letter to save EM-DAT and hope you will too.
https://openletter.earth/the-worlds-collective-disaster-memory-must-be-preserved-66c88c44
"Without EM-DAT, the global community would lose a critical shared empirical foundation for assessing disaster impacts and trends. In an era of intensifying climate extremes, cascading risks, and compounding crises, reliable data are not a luxury. They are the infrastructure for informed decision-making."
#Belgium #Climate #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
The #Trump defunding of #USAID could lead to the shutdown of EM-DAT, the world's largest database of natural and technological disasters, maintained by the #UCLouvain.
https://statsandr.com/blog/em-dat-the-world-s-disaster-memory-is-at-risk/
#Belgium #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
#DisasterData + #ClimateChange COP
1. "EM-DAT and quantitative analysis"
https://www.radixonline.org/blog/lzfv0qt5tpqqhr2zh8gl27hyins2bp
-Updating and supplementing "When disaster strikes" - Are disasters increasing?
https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/when-disaster-strikes
2. "Last Chance Climate Change COP (Again)"
https://policypostings.medium.com/last-chance-climate-change-cop-again-08926cc4da8c
-After all, "Do we really need more climate change COPs?"
https://medium.com/@climighealth/do-we-really-need-more-climate-change-cops-by-ilan-kelman-e0ffd57b78bd
#DesInventar #DRR #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #EMDAT #ClimateChange #UNFCCC #COP29 #COP29Baku #COP29Azerbaijan #NoNaturalDisasters
EM-DAT , the international disaster database, is perhaps the most comprehensive one available. It is helpful, needed, and welcome, with gratitude and kudos those who set it up, maintain it, and support it. They even removed the category "natural disaster" to keep it consistent with disaste
Peter Suber
petersuber
Ilan Kelman