Workshop Report: Building Resilience to the Risk of Compound and Cascading Disasters in the Context of Climate Change

The international workshop “Building Resilience to the Risk of Compound and Cascading Disasters in the Context of Climate Change: Launch of the New e-learning Course on AP-PLAT” was held online on 21 January 2022, organised by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ) and co-organised by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). It marked the official launch of the new e-learning course on AP-PLAT, “Building resilience to compound and cascading disaster risks.” It gathered leading scholars, experts and practitioners in the field of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation to discuss challenges of compound and cascading disaster risks and how we can better prepare for them. This report summarises the stimulating discussions that took place at the workshop.