UN/WHO International Conference on Space and Global Health

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The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development are co-organizing, in collaboration with the Government of Switzerland and Space and Global Health Network hosted by the Geneva Digital Hub, the International Conference on Space and Global Health to raise awareness, build capacity and increase collaboration between the space domain and the global health domain, by inviting decision-makers and practitioners from both domains to share their experiences.

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11/01/2023, 12:00am - 11/03/2023, 12:00am
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Geneva

United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)

World Health Organization (WHO)

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Government of Switzerland

Space and Global Health Network

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UN-SPIDER Bonn International Conference on Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management - "Early Warnings for All"

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Link to registration: https://indico.un.org/event/1007916/

Agenda

To access the agenda (pdf), click the link here.

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03/12/2024, 12:00am - 03/14/2024, 12:00am
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Bonn

United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)

United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER)

Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surface (ZFL), University of Bonn 

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

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Integrated Drought Management: Monitoring and Early Warning

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Droughts have deep, widespread, and often underestimated impacts on societies, ecosystems and economies. While drought is a recurring and natural climatic phenomenon, climate change is increasing temperatures and evaporation as well as disrupting rainfall patterns, increasing the frequency, severity and duration of droughts in many regions.

A proactive, integrated approach to drought management is essential. Three pillars need to be considered to ensure a successful drought policy and implementation:

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The course is open to participants representing various stakeholder groups working with drought management who are interested in taking the course and completing all modules. This includes:

Meteorological and hydrological experts from climate departments, climate service providers, environmental and disaster risk reduction agencies, agriculture experts and policy-oriented professionals
Stakeholders and professionals forming part of water management, civil society, river basin or international organizations; development programmes and members of UN organizations; and representatives of the private sector
Sustainable Development Goals focal points and facilitators within national governments
Decision-makers, policymakers, resource managers and high-level professionals and managers active in governmental bodies
Capacity developers active in the fields of Drought Management, Integrated Water Resources Management, Climate Action, among others.

Gender balance is very important for all course partners; we especially encourage women to participate in this course.
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03/14/2023, 12:00am - 11/15/2023, 12:00am
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UNEP-DHI

World Meteorological Organisation

Global Water Partnership

IDMP

Volta Flood and Drought Management

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UN-SPIDER's RSO in Greece and Partners Present Their Firelogue Project

The following text and content has been provided by UN-SPIDER's Regional Support Office in Greece at the BEYOND Centre for Earth Observation Research and Satellite Remote Sensing, together with its project partners, the Fraunhofer Institute for Technological Trend Analysis (INT) and EDGE in Earth Observation Science, presenting its Firelogue project

Advanced Webinar: Measuring Floods, Subsidence, and Sea Ice with SAR

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This training is a follow-on to the SAR training held in October 2022, which covered detecting and monitoring of oil spills, landslides, and floods. This training will expand on the theory and applications of SAR (Sentinel-1) data to detect and monitor floods through the use of time-series SAR data in order to more closely monitor increase/recession of flood waters. This training will also cover two new application areas: the use of InSAR to measure subsidence due to groundwater extraction and use of SAR to detect and monitor sea ice.

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Disaster management agencies, including domestic and international government agencies, aid organizations, indigenous communities, students, and academics.
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10/18/2023, 12:00am - 11/01/2023, 12:00am
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WMO: Early Warnings For All Action Plan for Africa is launched

Excerpt from World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Press Statement from 4 September 2023.

A new Early Warnings for All Action Plan for Africa is one of the most ambitious and comprehensive initiatives ever launched to save lives and livelihoods on a continent which is regularly exposed to extreme weather and which bears a disproportionate socio-economic cost of climate change.

Copernicus EMS releases version 4.0 of GloFAS

Floods, triggered by intense rainfall, affect many communities worldwide.  The extremely large floods in Pakistan in 2022, as well as other very large floods in Nigeria, Mozambique, and other countries, impacted many communities, affected their livelihoods, and triggered major losses. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate change will lead to increased precipitation in many regions, worsening the impacts of floods triggered by such precipitation.

UNOOSA as a Cooperating Body to the International Charter Space

Space-based information has been used extensively to contribute to disaster response efforts since several decades ago.  To enhance the use of such space-based information, since the year 2001, national space agencies from many countries have joined forces over the years to integrate the International Charter Space and Major Disasters as a mechanism to provide space-based information free of charge to national disaster management agencies and first responders in case of devastating disasters in all regions of the world.