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WWF's Environment and Disaster Management
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The @worldwildlife.org team integrating environmental issues into disaster recovery, reconstruction, & risk reduction.
Floods & landslides fueled by climate change & forest clearing are causing terrible suffering in Asia. WWF’s disaster recovery/risk-reduction work began here after the 2004 tsunami, advancing nature-based resilience for people & nature. The lessons matter more than ever👇 envirodm.org/green-recove...
December 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Thank you @unep.org for highlighting early warning systems as a critical part of anticipating extreme floods and protecting vulnerable communities. Other tools include the nature-based guidance found in the Flood Green Guide: envirodm.org/flood-manage...
Severe flooding has affected millions across Southeast and South Asia, as intense monsoon rains and climate-driven extreme weather trigger deadly floods and landslides.

Now more than ever, urgent investment in Early Warning Systems is essential to protect communities.

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December 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every year, disasters destroy hundreds of thousands of buildings, creating 5 to 15 years' worth of waste in days. WWF and partners call for urgent policy action to make sustainable building materials management a core part of disaster recovery and climate resilience: doi.org/10.21985/n2-...
Sustainable Building Materials Management in Post-Disaster Situations: Global Call to Action
Disasters destroy hundreds of thousands of buildings annually. Rebuilding requires staggering volumes of material. The adverse socio-environmental impacts of poor post-disaster building materials m...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Los Angeles is redesigning itself as a sponge city by restoring wetlands, greening alleyways, and capturing billions of gallons of stormwater: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/676f...
Los Angeles: The Next Sponge City
Turning the City of Angeles into the next Sponge City.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
We are new here! WWF’s Environment & Disaster Management Program helps people and nature recover after disasters. We focus on green recovery, flood management, and nature-based solutions that make communities stronger and safer.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Floods are inevitable — but devastation doesn’t have to be!
WWF’s Flood Green Guide helps local leaders turn flood challenges into sustainable solutions.
Read more:
www.worldwildlife.org/news/sustain...
Local leaders rethink flood management
WWF’s Flood Green Guide empowers communities to manage floods with nature-based solutions that protect people, ecosystems, and livelihoods.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
10 years of WWF’s Flood Green Guide in 21 trainings, 470 people, 30 countries, 13 policy shifts. Read more about how WWF’s Environment & Disaster Management program empowers communities to live with water – and not against it: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/15b1...
Taming Floods with Nature
For 10 years, WWF's Flood Green Guide has helped reshape the narrative around nature-based flood management
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October 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM