Climate crises threaten to displace 1.2 billion people by 2050, with the cost of adapting to these new threats estimated to reach the range of $280 billion to $500 billion per year. Vulnerable people and regions, including sub-Saharan Africa, will be disproportionately impacted. Yet climate-vulnerable countries have received minimal funding for adaptation to date. Early-warning and early-action systems have an essential role to play in enabling effective disaster-preparedness and response efforts.
Early-warning and climate-information systems are essential for enabling effective disaster preparedness and response efforts, and data- and risk-informed decision-making relies on leveraging the various technologies that underpin these systems in the right ways and at the right time. Early warning and early action also require high-quality, accurate data to be collected and analysed for risk-informed impact forecasts and targeted-response action plans.
As part of our four-part series, this paper focuses on the specific barriers governments face in accessing and operationalising technologies that support effective and cost-efficient disaster-risk management. We also provide forward-leaning recommendations for how governments can access and incorporate the right technology into a comprehensive, government-wide, tech-enabled disaster-management system.
We set out three broad challenges that governments face in leveraging technology and data to transform disaster management: (i) issues of governance; (ii) failure to sufficiently utilise regional and international networks; and (iii) relative lack of technical expertise and appropriate tech infrastructure.
Sources:
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Provided by the IKCEST Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service System
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