Counter Crisis
A series by the Centre for Disaster Protection on disaster risk financing.
Counter Crisis
Latest Episodes
S3 Ep 4: The Quiet Disaster
Heat doesn't behave like other disasters. It's slow, continuous, and chronically under-recorded. In parts of India, heat now lasts for up to nine months of the year.For street vendors, construction workers and informal-sector women, heat...
S3 Ep 3: Between Flood and Drought
The Gambia is one of the smallest countries in Africa, and one of the most exposed to climate change. Its capital, Banjul, sits on an island less than a metre above sea level. By the end of the century, the city could be lost altogether....
S3 Ep 2: Black Rain
In January 2022, an underwater volcano erupted off Tonga with enough force to be heard in Alaska. It triggered a tsunami, severed the undersea cable that connected the country to the world, and caught the national disaster team's own boat at se...
