The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand, signed an agreement with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs to become a Regional Support Office of the UN-SPIDER programme.

The MHEWC-III invites interested parties, particularly from the following entities, to submit posters on early warning systems that enable early action to save lives and livelihoods:

The UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is the flagship report of the United Nations on worldwide efforts to reduce disaster risk. The GAR is published biennially by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), and is the product of the contributions of nations, public and private disaster risk-related science and research, amongst others.

Today, on 26 April 2022, UNDRR launched the 2022 GAR entitled "Our World at Risk: Transforming Governance for a Resilient Future".

Impact-based forecasts that inform the public of what the weather will do rather than what weather will be are vital to save lives and livelihoods. Yet one in three people are still not adequately covered by early warning systems. Being prepared and able to act at the right time, in the right place, can save many lives and protect the livelihoods of communities everywhere, both now and in the future.

From Stock Take to Scale on Sendai Framework Target G: Accelerating the Knowledge and Practice of MHEWS for Risk Informed Resilience

Please visit the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction website for the most complete and up-to-date information on the preparatory events, such as the Third Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference (MHEWC-III).

The Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre (DRMKC) of the European Commission and its Joint Research Centre (JRC) has released the second publication in its series, "Science for disaster risk management 2020: Acting Today, Protecting Tomorrow."

More than 300 experts worked on the report for more than two years, coming from a wide range of fields, to show how disasters affect different types of assets at risk (population, economic sectors, critical infrastructures, ecosystem services and cultural heritage).

A new Earth-observation satellite was successfully launched by China on Thursday, 7th April 2022, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the north-western part of the country.

Long March-4C rocket launched Gaofen-3 03 at 7:47 a.m. (Beijing Time) and it went into orbit as planned.

Together with two satellites from the Gaofen-3 series that have already been launched, the three will work together to make a "sky eye" in space.