Hazard assessment

This brief on the key lessons from the Sikkim, India, 2023 glacial lake outburst flood highlights the importance of early warning systems, hazard assessments, and risk reduction management in the face of growing climate-related hazards. Zoï contributed to content development and designed the brief.

This technical guidance document provides a structured and comprehensive approach to hazard assessment underpinned by latest scientific understanding. It has been produced as a resource for international and national agencies, responsible authorities and private companies.

Discover this Solution Story describing how global cooperation is helping mountain regions meet the growing threat from glacial lake outburst floods.

This paper compares the framework of the IPCC AR4 (2007) to that outlined in IPCC AR5 (2014) and describes how the AR5 framework provides a more contextualised and operationalisable approach.