Planning for the Effects of El Niño - Global Resilience Partnership

The Global Resilience Partnership highlights the severe humanitarian risks posed by a strong El Niño phase, citing specific crises in Ethiopia, Indonesia, and India, and advocates for adaptive measures such as early warning systems and innovative financing.

• Climatologists predict the current phase of El Niño is likely to be among the strongest in recorded history, causing extreme weather that leads to displacement, income loss, food shortages, and health threats.
• The 2015 impacts of El Niño included Ethiopia's worst drought in 50 years, which left 10.2 million people requiring relief food assistance; drought-exacerbated fires in Indonesia causing nearly 500,000 acute respiratory infection cases; and fatal flooding in India.
• El Niño impacts are expected to cause crisis food insecurity for more than 17 million people, with particular severity in Africa and Latin America.
• To adapt to increasing climate variability and save lives, the document suggests implementing early warning systems for farmers, innovative financing for livestock assets, and rain-harvesting roads.

APA

Alinovi, L. (2016). Planning for the Effects of El Niño - Global Resilience Partnership. Global Resilience Partnership. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/el-nino-planning/

Chicago

Alinovi, Luca. Planning for the Effects of El Niño - Global Resilience Partnership. Global Resilience Partnership, 2016. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/el-nino-planning/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{alinovi2016planning, author = {Alinovi, Luca}, title = {{Planning for the Effects of El Niño - Global Resilience Partnership}}, publisher = {Global Resilience Partnership}, year = {2016}, month = jan, url = {https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/el-nino-planning/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }