REPORT: Reality of Resilience - Learning from climate extremes This report looks at how Reality of Resilience works, why it is timely, and provides seven steps to replicate the initiative in other resilience programmes.

Factsheet: Unscrambling climate and weather information This factsheet, from Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters, provides tips for integrating climate and weather information into development projects.

Reality of resilience: Perspectives of the 2015–16 drought in Ethiopia This report highlights lessons from the 2015–16 drought in Ethiopia, including how and why different communities were impacted

REPORT: Kenya ending drought emergencies policy review: scenarios for building resilience in ASALs This report highlights some of the political economy factors that affect the implementation of Kenya’s Ending Drought Emergencies (EDE) Common Programme Framework.

REPORT: Attribution of extreme weather events in Africa: a preliminary exploration of the science and policy implications This report explains the methods and implications of different approaches to the attribution of extreme weather events with a focus on Africa.

Africa gears up for first-of-a-kind climate impact study A scientific pilot in Kenya and Ethiopia seeks to identify the link between extreme weather events and global warming

REPORT: How the people of India live with climate change and what communication can do This report seeks to build a picture of how people in India live their lives and deal with change, in order to understand their communication needs and help them respond to changes and variations in climate.

Last year’s Chennai deluge not due to climate change After poring over scientific models and rainfall data for months, researchers say the rainfall on December 1, 2015 cannot be attributed to climate change

Scientists study climate connection for Chennai, India floods Joydeep Gupta, South Asian environment expert and writer, introduces climate attribution science and how it could be useful for India’s policy-makers.

Raising risk awareness - Collaborating to understand extreme weather How can a group of scientists, vulnerability experts and knowledge brokers work together to help improve decision-making around extreme weather events? Some 40 such participants gathered to find out. Toby Morris reports on the Raising Risk Awareness expert roundtable in Nairobi.

Disasters and violence against women and girls ODI and CARE have released new research that reviews how gender discrimination may get worse after disasters, writes Virginie le Masson.

Major economies are decarbonising quickly - Low Carbon Economy Index 2016 China sets the pace for record breaking decarbonisation levels, doubling the worldwide average for first time since 2000, say the authors of PwC’s Low Carbon Economy Index 2016.