From 23 to 28 May the seventh session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 (GP2022) took place in Bali, Indonesia, organized and convened by UNDRR, and hosted by the Government of Indonesia. The event was co-chaired by the Government of Indonesia and UNDRR. More than 4000 participants from 185 countries attended both in person and virtually.

Nearly 750 participants representing international, regional, national, local organizations, and other stakeholders participated in the 3rd International Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference, which was held in Bali, Indonesia, on 23 and 24 May 2022. The Conference was organized by the International Network on Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (IN-MHEWS) and other partners as a pre-event for the 2022 Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction.

UN-SPIDER's Regional Support Office of Pakistan (SUPARCO) has provided a new Recommended Practice, using Google Earth Engine to identify the drought extent and severity by calculating different indices.

On 1 March 2022 the newest geostationary satellite (GOES-18) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched. Equipped with the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI, 16 channels), it measures energy at different wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum to obtain information about Earth’s atmosphere, land, and ocean.

On 11 May 2022 NOAA shared the first images of the Western Hemisphere, taken by the GOES-18 Satellite.

From 9 to 11 May 2022, UN-SPIDER carried out an Expert Mission to Ghana to meet with staff of the National Disaster Management Organization of Ghana (NADMO). The mission allowed UN-SPIDER to gain more insights into the efforts that NADMO and other government agencies are carrying out to prepare a simulation in case of earthquakes, to be carried out in June. The simulation exercise is organized by the Government of Ghana and benefits from the technical assistance of the North Dakota National Guard.

On 1 April EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program) satellite, managed by the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) launched into space. About one month later now, the first high-resolution satellite images have been received successfully.

On 10 May 2022, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), the University of Energy and Natural Resources of Ghana, and the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) inaugurated the 5th International Conference on the Use of Space Technology for Water Resources Management. The conference, held in Accra from 10 to 13 May 2022, aims to promote the use of space technology in water management in developing countries.

The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) published its report "2021 Disasters in Numbers".