Aligning disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the post-COP26 era

The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows that human activity contributes unequivocally to global warming and climate change.1 Climate change, in turn, drives the current increase in weather extremes and climate-related disasters.2 Moreover, human-induced processes, such as unplanned urbanisation, further magnify disaster risk,3 putting an increasingly large portion of the global population in danger in the years to come.