Only 95 countries reported in Bali, Indonesia, having the tools that notify governments, agencies and the general public of an impending disaster, with coverage particularly low in Africa, Least Developed and Small Island Developing States, underlined the entity.
The 2022 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, held in late May, brought together 184 nations to review efforts to protect communities from an increasing number of global weather hazards and other catastrophes. international.
Early warning systems, the WMO noted, were mentioned as a critical defense against disasters such as floods, droughts and volcanic eruptions in the Assessment Report which predicted 560, or 1.5 disasters per day, by 2030 based on current forecasts.
The event in the Asian territory came after the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, requested that the alert systems cover all the people on the planet within five years.
The Bali Agenda for Resilience was brought forward to the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction in 2022, to be celebrated on October 13 and which will be dedicated to early warning systems.
The Covid-19 pandemic, participants agreed, highlighted the need to reassess the way risk is governed and policies are designed, as well as the types of institutional arrangements that need to be put in place at the global, regional, and national levels.
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