The Raising Risk Awareness initiative used state-of-the-art science to help Asian and African societies to understand the role of climate change in extreme weather events and prepare for future ones.

Scientists now can determine if human-induced climate change contributed to an extreme event – or if the event would have happened anyway. Techniques for attributing such extreme events to climate change – almost in real time – have advanced in the last ten years and are considered the new frontier of climate science. If climate change has played a role, scientists can indicate how often such events are likely to happen in the future and work with countries to brace for similar events.