07/05/2026
Dear EM-DAT user,
As you may know, EM-DAT is facing an urgent funding crisis. Following the suspension of USAID support, the future of this open-access service is at risk, and we could use your help to preserve it.
For decades, EM-DAT (https://www.emdat.be/) has been one of the world's leading references on disasters and their human and economic impacts. It supports scientific research, humanitarian response, policy-making, and global risk awareness. Losing EM-DAT could mean losing a vital part of our collective disaster memory.
How you can help:
Please sign and share the open letter, written by EM-DAT users in support of the database.: https://openletter.earth/the-worlds-collective-disaster-memory-must-be-preserved-66c88c44
Every signature strengthens the case for sustained funding. We kindly ask you to pass this message on to colleagues, partners, and anyone else who may be willing to add their name.
Thank you for standing with us to protect this shared resource.
Warm regards,
CRED-EM-DAT Team
EM-DAT, the Emergency Events Database, is the most widely used and trusted global disaster database for tracking natural and technological disasters by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), UCLouvain, Belgium (www.emdat.be)..) For over thirty years, it has supported resear...
