A High-Level Symposium in Panama on 24 October has yielded important recommendations on Early Warning Systems (EWS) and provided an article for the Declaration of the Ministries of Environment giving greater visibility to National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) and their services to society. The “Ensuring Efficient Climate Information Systems, Disaster Risk Reduction and Multi-hazard Early Warning in Latin America and the Caribbean” Symposium was billed as a continuation of the first Regional Summit on Disaster Risk Management held earlier in the year in Uruguay. It aimed to underline the importance of the work of the region’s NMHSs and to strengthen the links between NMHSs and Ministries of Environment, National Climate Change Directorates, Emergency Information Centres and National and Regional Disaster Risk Management Organizations (NDRMOs).
The event was organized by the WMO Regional Office for the Americas, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) in the framework of the XXIII Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the…
