{"id":25532,"date":"2024-12-10T22:53:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T17:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=25532"},"modified":"2024-12-10T22:53:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T17:08:41","slug":"regions-disaster-experts-unite-in-response-to-rising-numbers-and-intensity-of-climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/regions-disaster-experts-unite-in-response-to-rising-numbers-and-intensity-of-climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Region’s disaster experts unite in response to rising numbers and intensity of climate-driven hazards in mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Disaster Management\u00a0experts\u00a0in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India,\u00a0Nepal,\u00a0and Pakistan met to endorse a new\u00a0collaborative effort\u00a0to protect communities from floods and other climate events\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kathmandu<\/b>\u2013\u00a0 Senior Disaster Management experts\u00a0from\u00a0six Hindu Kush Himalayan\u00a0countries\u00a0met to support\u00a0a new effort\u00a0to\u00a0help\u00a0protect communities, infrastructure, and ecosystem services\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0rising numbers and intensity of disasters hitting the mountain zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hindu Kush Himalayan Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Hub, a voluntary platform to accelerate\u00a0understanding,\u00a0information-sharing,\u00a0and action to address mountain hazards in vulnerable\u00a0zones, was\u00a0welcomed\u00a0by representatives from Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan on Monday, 9 December, in Kathmandu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis initiative is about saving lives, safeguarding livelihoods and infrastructure, and protecting economies in a zone that we know with tragic certainty temperature rise is\u00a0set to\u00a0make\u00a0ever-more hazardous,\u201d said Pema Gyamtsho, Director General of\u00a0the International\u00a0Centre for\u00a0Integrated\u00a0Mountain\u00a0Development (ICIMOD), which anchors the DRR Hub.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are running out of time to prepare for the changes in hydrology, river systems, and\u00a0ground stability that it unleashes,\u201d said Neera Shrestha Pradhan,\u00a0who leads ICIMOD\u2019s work on Managing Cryosphere and Water Risks.\u00a0 \u201cJoining forces\u00a0is a key route to\u00a0reduce\u00a0the impact of the\u00a0destructive events that lie ahead for families and enterprises in our region.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u202fThe Hindu Kush Himalaya\u2019s\u00a0topography, weather systems,\u00a0and high population make it disproportionately vulnerable to climate-induced disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Floods in\u00a0Pakistan were this week pronounced the \u201cmost deadly climate event of\u00a02024\u201d by Al Jazeera. Elsewhere, severe rainfall in Bangladesh\u00a0impacted\u00a018 million\u00a0people, and Nepal saw unprecedented rainfall that left 268 people dead and tore through homes, agricultural land, and infrastructure.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“With many governments in the region stretched to deliver basic services in health and education, pooling knowledge and resources was crucial to ensure officials could \u201cmake every dollar count\u201d to meet rising losses and damages,” said Kavitha\u00a0Kasyanathan, Head of Development for the Embassy of Australia to Nepal.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key\u00a0organizations\u00a0from\u00a0ICIMOD\u2019s regional member countries, including\u00a0government, academia, practitioners, NGOs, UN agencies, and tech-for-good, participated in the two-day event to launch the DRR Hub in\u00a0person or online, including UNDRR, UNESCAP, UNDP, IFRC, and GLOMOS.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diana Patricia Mosquera Calle,\u00a0Deputy Chief, Regional Office for Asia Pacific, UNDRR, voiced her\u00a0strong support\u00a0for the Hub, saying: \u201cThe\u00a0United Nations\u2019\u00a0Early Warnings for All<\/u><\/a> initiative\u00a0aims for universal coverage, but to\u00a0meet the target of this ambitious and urgent global drive, we need\u00a0countries\u00a0to\u00a0come\u00a0together.\u00a0That\u2019s\u00a0why\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0so supportive of this initiative.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early Warnings for All\u00a0(EW4All)\u00a0seeks\u00a0to\u00a0ensure that everyone on Earth is protected from hazardous weather, water, or climate events through life-saving early warning systems by the end of 2027, through disaster risk knowledge and management; detection, observation, monitoring, analysis, and forecasting; warning dissemination and communication; preparedness and response capabilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anil Pokhrel, Chief Executive of Nepal\u2019s\u00a0National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority\u00a0emphasized how important regional collaboration\u00a0would be for EW4All to\u00a0succeed. This is particularly\u00a0critical\u00a0in the\u00a0HKH region\u00a0given its\u00a0complex geography, geopolitical sensitivities,\u00a0and weather conditions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanjay Srivastava, Chief of DRR at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), emphasized how important it was for early warnings to respond to the\u00a0phenomenon of\u00a0cascading and compounding hazards, saying\u00a0\u201cFloods are never\u00a0floods\u00a0alone; you also see the collapse of dams and culverts.\u201d He\u00a0encouraged partners to\u00a0expand\u00a0their focus\u00a0from\u00a0single-hazard to multi-hazard early warnings\u00a0and anticipatory actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This event was organized with the support of the Australian Embassy in Nepal and Swiss Development Cooperation.\u00a0 ICIMOD has more than a decade of experience in early warning systems and DRR across the Hindu Kush Himalayas, with its community-based systems winning the\u00a0United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change\u00a0(UNFCCC) Lighthouse Award in\u00a02014, and this community-based early warning system has also been scaled to Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u202fThe Hindu Kush Himalaya\u2019s\u00a0topography, weather systems,\u00a0and high population make it disproportionately vulnerable to climate-induced disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains.jpg",1044,688,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains-200x200.jpg",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains-607x400.jpg",607,400,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains-768x506.jpg",750,494,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains-675x445.jpg",675,445,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains.jpg",1044,688,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains.jpg",1044,688,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains.jpg",1044,688,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains-870x570.jpg",870,570,true],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains-600x688.jpg",600,688,true],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains-600x600.jpg",600,600,true],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains-760x490.jpg",760,490,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains-550x360.jpg",550,360,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains-95x65.jpg",95,65,true],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains.jpg",640,422,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains.jpg",96,63,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/climate-driven-hazards-in-mountains.jpg",150,99,false]},"author_info":{"info":["RevoScience"]},"category_info":"Environment<\/a> News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25535,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25532\/revisions\/25535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}