Disaster Loss Data and Linkage to Climate Change Impacts for the Arab Region

This first edition of the 2016 Report “Assessing weather-related disasters in the Arab States” provides a comprehensive analysis of the weather-related and geological disasters and their socio-economic and environmental impacts over a thirty-year time-frame within six countries in the Arab region: Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia and Yemen. The findings of this report are based on national disaggregated disaster loss data customized for the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR 2015), the main global assessment of disaster risk reduction published biannually by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).

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