Early warning

Discussion paper number 9:

This document reports on the rationale for selection of climate change scenarios and climate data for the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change (EACC) global analysis, which aims to better understand what adaptation to

The new report has attracted the critical attention of Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow, who noted '… it provides a deep understanding of the relative roles of the market, government intervention, and social institutions in determining and improving both the prevention and the response to hazardous occurrences.'...

FCCC/CP/2010/2:

This document presents a set of draft decisions containing the outcome of the ad hoc working group on long-term cooperative action (AWG-LCA) work for consideration and adoption at the COP at its sixteenth session, including an enhanced

A central tenet of IRI is that providing people and institutions with climate information is just one step in a larger effort - building the capacity of scientists to generate tailored information and helping users ask for information relevant to them is another. Recent IRI workshops and its Climate Predictability Tool (CPT) help 'not just from climate scientists perspective, but also from the perspective of people working in agriculture, health, and risk.'...

This booklet describes the purpose, value and products of the international observational system, the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), which ensures global monitoring to provide ocean services for the purpose of sustainable development of ocean

'We know the public expects us to do better, but we have many limitations. The centre has only 10 permanent staff. We need support from other agencies to warn the public of natural disasters' said National Disaster Warning Centre Centre chief Somsak Khaosuwan to the Bangkok post yesterday...

'There is a need to alter public awareness from perceiving natural disasters as unmitigated and unpredictable events to internalising disaster risk reduction and responses as part of their lives', says an editorial emphasizing difficulties in ensuring effective early warning systems and disaster management at all levels...

Towards a regional platform for their financial and institutional sustainability:

This report describes the background for the flood early warning systems (Flood EWS) in the Central American Isthmus and the Dominican Republic, commenced in 1995, and