Country Profiles: INFORM Index for Risk Management 2024

This report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) explores the scale, patterns, drivers, and impacts of internal displacement associated with slow-onset climate change. Slow-onset climate change includes phenomena such as desertification, glacial retreat, loss of biodiversity, among others; when combined with socioeconomic and governance factors, it sets the stage for specific triggers of displacement like loss of land, livelihoods, and resources. The broader goal of this report is to inform policies and practices for…

This brief from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) examines the implications on populations worldwide of “very strong heat stress,” meaning conditions that are too hot for humans to function well. The authors point to projections that the number of people living in very strong heat stress could go from under 1 million as it is now to 30 million by the end of the century. They present data and diagrams on worldwide temperatures and…

This article in The New York Times describes some of the ominous setbacks that global polio eradication efforts have faced in 2022. After decades, Malawi, Israel, Britain, and the U.S. either reported new cases of polio or detected virus in wastewater. Previously, Pakistan and Afghanistan remained two of the final frontiers for polio eradication. While the U.S. and Britain have high immunization rates, geographic pockets of low immunity may allow polio to spread. According to the…