Droughts are extreme events that have major impacts on communities, ecosystems and economies due to slow onset and complex processes.

The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Oceans and the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate suggests sea level rise may be best understood as a slow onset disaster

Droughts are significant drivers of land degradation, which in turn has adverse effects on resource-dependent rural populations and can potentially lead to livelihood losses and subsequent migratio

The Amazon is the most concentrated expression of life on Earth and it is clearly threatened.

The Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage has identified increasing temperatures as a key slow onset event.

Slow onset processes have been increasingly linked to human mobility in the global policy space.

Sea-level rise poses a significant threat to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) due to the concentration of people, assets, and infrastructure in coastal zones.

As sea level rise drives saltwater farther inland, drinking water supplies of some coastal cities will be contaminated.

This review article assesses evidences published in the past two years on the links among slow-onset events, food security and poverty as well as the strategies focused on reducing specific problem

The negative effects of slow onset events (SOEs) related to climate change are already affecting developing countries, with the resulting impacts likely to increase significantly.