Delegates from 184 countries gathered in Bali for 2022 Global platform for disaster risk reduction where they review efforts to protect communities against some of the increasing global climate and other hazards.
The summit ended with an outcome document called The Bali Agenda on Resilience, aims to prevent the world from facing 1.5 disasters a day by 2030, as quoted last month in Global Assessment Report.
“Early warning systems must include the most at-risk communities with sufficient institutional, financial, and human capacity to act on early warnings.” speak summary of the co-chairs.
Status
During the meeting, only 95 countries reported having a multi-hazard early warning system that provides governments, agencies and the public with general notice of an impending disaster. Coverage in Africa, least developed countries and small island developing countries is particularly low.
Early warning systems are an important defense against disasters such as floods, droughts and volcanic eruptions.
March, Secretary General António Guterres called for warning systems to cover everyone on the planet within five years.
Early warning
A core recommendation of Bali Agenda is to “apply a ‘Resilience thinking’ approach to all investments and decision making, integrating disaster risk reduction with government and society as a whole,” the councils said. chairpersons stated in their summaries.
The resulting document also highlights the need to reassess how risk is regulated and policy designed, as well as institutional arrangements that need to be made at the global, regional and national levels.
Impact of COVID
The meeting was the first UN international disaster forum to be convened since its inception COVID-19 pandemic.
Against this backdrop, the co-chairs remarked that current approaches to recovery and reconstruction “are not effective enough in protecting development gains or in building back better, greener.” better and fairer”.
“Transformational lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic must be applied before the opportunity closes. ”
Sendai input
That paralle, Midterm review – measure progress towards UN global goals Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction – In progress.
Sharing progress since the last Global Forum in 2019, delegates revealed a 33% increase in the number of countries developing disaster risk reduction strategies and reporting their adoption. Sendai frame screen.
However, Bali Agenda found that “less than half of the countries reporting on the Sendai Framework targets indicate that they have purposeful, accessible and actionable disaster risk information”.
And while there has been some progress – such as the development of new financing mechanisms and better linkages to climate action – ” The data still shows inadequate investment and progress in disaster risk reduction in most countries, especially investment in disaster preparedness.. ”
UNDRR / Antoine Late
The seventh session of the Global Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction in Bali, Indonesia.
Go ahead
The Bali Agenda will be adopted by the next United Nations climate conference, known as COP 27, as well as the next meeting of the G20 leading industrialized nations and the Sendai Framework Midterm Review.
This year International Day for Disaster Risk Reductioncelebrated annually on October 13, will be dedicated to early warning systems.
