Webinar – Enhancing Resilience through Early Warning Systems: An approach to Disaster Risk Reduction

Climate change over the longer term will make extreme weather events more frequent and widespread. In the past, most countries have dealt with single events at a time but as climate change concerns become more exaggerated, there is a need for countries to prepare themselves to deal with compounding risk multiplying the deadly impacts. Climate change and global warming is one of the most talked about and discussed agenda in the scientific, political and social discourses; yet we are still looking for an effective strategy to communicate about it in the public domain. The climate information sharing has been very selective and sporadic in nature as far as its coverage is concern. This led to us to the problem of acceptance of the relevant scientific findings which would have been a better strategy to deal with climate challenges at large scale if executed otherwise; so much so the common man is remains sceptic whether to use that information for their own betterment and in their planning.

TERI in collaboration with National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) organised a webinar accompanied by scientists, policy makers, practitioners, implementation and funding agencies with an objective to discuss initiatives, measures, best practices and challenges related to science based tools and effective communication of climate risks assessments and impacts and their role in designing policies for targeted actions.

The discussions focused on the following aspects followed by the Launch of Flood Early Warning System developed for predicting urban floods for in the city of Guwahati, Assam.
• How science-based tools on risks assessments can be used by policy makers to manage disasters?
• How do we design specific communication products/tools to meet the stakeholders’ specific needs?
• How can scientific knowledge regarding disaster and climate risks be enhanced to support effective communication and trigger adaptation actions by individuals?
• How can an effective data sharing and communication strategy for managing and averting disasters are integrated in the developmental policy or measures?
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