"EM-DAT’s small team of researchers require just €300,000 ($350,000) a year to maintain operations"
Important story by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org - would be tragedy if this important and unique data was lost for such a relatively small sum
EM-DAT: Trump aid cuts could close database storing ‘world’s memory of disasters’
✍️ @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org
💬 with comments from @niko-speybroeck.bsky.social Dewald Van Niekerk and Gabriele-Messori
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The world’s most comprehensive disaster database is at risk of closing as a result of cuts to US foreign aid by the Trump administration
