Such statistics, produced on a regular and coordinated basis, are essential for monitoring populations at risk and informing integrated climate impact assessments. In the case of weather events, for example, linkage is difficult to establish but there is currently considerable progress being made in attribution research (Cornwall, 2016, Solow, 2015). The international definition of disaster for statistical purposes has been established by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, in cooperation with the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) based in Louvain, Belgium.