{"id":5054,"date":"2022-03-23T16:22:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/climate-change-extreme-weather-warning-systems-for-all-in-five-years"},"modified":"2022-03-23T19:27:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T19:27:36","slug":"climate-change-extreme-weather-warning-systems-for-all-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/climate-change-extreme-weather-warning-systems-for-all-in-five-years","title":{"rendered":"Climate change: Extreme weather warning systems for all ‘in five years’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Angola. <\/strong><\/span>Early warning systems to protect the entire world from extreme weather and climate disasters should be rolled out within five years, according to the UN.<\/b><\/p>\n

Right now, around one-third of the global population has no cover while in Africa 60% of the population is unprotected.<\/p>\n

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) will put together a plan on how this can be achieved by November.<\/p>\n

Around $1.5bn will be needed to finance the development.<\/p>\n

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Over the past 50 years, a weather, climate, or water-related disaster has occurred on average every day.<\/p>\n

As the world warms, these weather related extreme events are on the increase, going up five-fold over the past half-century.<\/p>\n

But better warning systems have ensured that the number of people killed in these floods and storms has fallen significantly in the same period.<\/p>\n

However, the scale of improvement depends very much on where you live.<\/p>\n

Last year, when Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana, it was the fifth strongest such storm to hit the continental US.<\/p>\n

Thanks to effective forecasting and early warning, tens of thousands of people were mandated to evacuate and overall deaths were less than 100.<\/p>\n

Contrast that with Cyclone Idai which hit Southern Africa in 2019, leaving around a thousand people dead across Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe and millions more in need in humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n

While warnings were issued, the dissemination of the information, particularly in rural areas was not effective.<\/p>\n

“This is unacceptable, particularly with climate impacts sure to get even worse,” said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in a video statement to launch the new plan.<\/p>\n

“Early warnings and action save lives. We must boost the power of prediction for everyone and build their capacity to act.”<\/p>\n

The UN has now asked the WMO to develop a scheme so that early notifications of these type of extreme events can cover everyone on the planet within five years.<\/p>\n

The greatest need is in parts of Central and West Africa, in the Caribbean and in small island developing states in the Pacific.<\/p>\n

The WMO will look to put in place the technology that will involve real-time monitoring of the atmosphere so that people in these areas are made aware that a flood, a heatwave, or storm is on its way.<\/p>\n

Crucially, the systems should also help inform governments, communities, and individuals on how to act to minimise damage.<\/p>\n

The WMO estimates that it will cost around $1.5bn to improve the meteorological warning systems and build the knowledge in the least developed countries.<\/p>\n

The money will be raised from funding institutions like the World Bank and the Green Climate Fund.<\/p>\n

“It will not be easy, it will be challenging, but when one looks at the potential costs of mobilising the resources to make this a reality, it’s a mere fraction, a mere rounding error of the $14tn mobilised by G20 countries over the last two years to recover their economies from Covid-19,” said a senior UN official.<\/p>\n

Experts say that this type of spending repays itself in a very short time.<\/p>\n

According to the Global Commission on Adaptation, an investment of $800m can result in avoided losses of as much as $16bn, which is 20 times the initial outlay.<\/p>\n

Campaigners have welcomed the idea of better warning systems but believe it’s the least that the richer world can do for countries that are living with the impacts of a warmer climate.<\/p>\n

“The early warning systems are vital in saving lives but we must not stop at just preventing deaths,” said Mohammed Adow from the campaign group Power Shift Africa.<\/p>\n

“If people survive a climate disaster but then are left to fend for themselves with their homes and livelihoods destroyed, it’s a meagre blessing.<\/p>\n

“The global community needs to ensure the victims of climate catastrophes are helped to thrive, not just survive.”<\/p>\n

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