UN-SPIDER, the National Disaster Management Centre of South Africa (NDMC), and the Centre for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (ZFL) of the University of Bonn organized a three-day interinstitutional workshop in Pretoria, from 9 to 11 May 2023.

The Ambassador of Kuwait to Pakistan recently met with the Chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to discuss potential strategies for participative investment in pre-disaster planning and management.

Ghana's National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) is undertaking a new National Disaster Preparedness Baseline Assessment in collaboration with the University of Hawaii's Pacific Disaster Center (PDC). This new assessment responds to the initiative of further developing Ghana's risk reduction capacity concerning multiple hazards.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has launched its "State of the Global Climate 2022" annual report on April 21, 2023. The report focuses on key climate indicators, such as greenhouse gases, sea level rise, temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea ice and glaciers, and highlights the impacts of climate change and exteme weather. 

The Anticipation Hub has published this week the "Anticipatory Action in 2022: A Global Overview" annual report that captures for the first time the scale of anticipatory action worldwide. The report discusses how the scope of anticipatory action expanded in 2022, in terms of hazards, triggers in place, and anticipatory actions implemented. It also shows how 35 countries implemented anticipatory actions in 2022 and are ready to act ahead of forecast hazards.

ST Engineering has launched its first polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) satellite, TeLEOS-2, in partnership with Singapore's Defence Science and Technology Agency. The satellite is capable of capturing high-resolution day and night images under all-weather conditions, with full polarimetry for a wider range of satellite data applications, offering enhanced and wider coverage of major shipping routes and disaster-prone regions. TeLEOS-2 weighs 750kg and was successfully launched at 4.50 pm Singapore time from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota, India.

The first space cooperation agreement taking place in South-East Asia, the Copernicus Capacity Support Action Programme for the Philippines (CopPhil), launched this week, on 24 April 2023. The contribution agreement was signed by the European Commission and the European Space Agency, with the aim to build a natio