Several efforts have been underway in the region to alleviate the impacts of climate change on the environment and human lives.
While looking for sustainable solution for climate change, it is also important to fortify early warning systems to mitigate the disaster against humans and their environment. Research from the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction found that between 2000 and 2019, there were almost twice as many climate-related disasters as during the previous 20 years. The number of major floods, for example, doubled from 1,389 to 3,254. These disasters are being fuelled by the world's toxic love affair with carbon, according to climate change news. com.
The Adaptation Fund was created to support communities against the impacts of climate change. Disaster risk reduction coupled with early warning systems now account for around 18% of all the projects it funds. To date it has helped install 526 early warning systems across all continents, at the local, national and regional levels.
At global level too, the role of reinforcing early warning systems in the prevention of climate related disasters is indisputable. With climate change, the frequency and intensity of climate-related hazards is expected to increase. Impact-based people-centred Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems have a great potential to avert disaster risk and minimize loss & damage caused by climate-related hazards through supporting well-informed science-based decision-making.