Our report: Unbreakable: Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters, estimates annual disaster losses to exceed $500 billion a year—outstripping all other estimates by as much as 60%! Learn how we can protect the world’s poorest
Resilience for the most vulnerable: Managing disasters to better protect the world’s poorest
In his “The People of the Abyss,” novelist Jack London describes in grim detail a devastating storm that rocked London in the early 20th century. Residents suffered terribly—some losing as much as £10,000, a ruinous sum in 1902—but none lost more than the city’s poorest. Natural disasters are devast…
