Mirianna Budimir, the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance’s Early Warning Systems (EWS) Lead, will be attending the Understanding Risk Forum and co-hosting a Focus Day with the Risk-informed Early Action Partnership and the UK Met Office on the topic of EWS.

UP – Unifying Partners Old and New to Ensure Warnings Save Lives.

Date: Thursday 20th June, Time: 9am – 6pm JST

A series of interactive sessions will help fill knowledge gaps in key areas and explore new ways of improving our approaches to early warnings early action (EWEA) programming and finance. These sessions will explore themes such as understanding forecast uncertainty, who needs to be at the centre of EWS, the use of tradition and innovation to build resilience, EWEA in conflict research and applications, and innovation related to early action finance.

During this Focus Day, Mirianna will also be leading a session on who are the people at the centre of EWS and sharing how the Missing Voices Approach is used to get insights into marginalised people’s needs in EWS.

Full details on the Understanding Risk Forum can be found here.

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The 60th sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies will take place from 3-13 June 2024 at the World Conference Center Bonn. In partnership with ODI, the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance will host an event on making climate finance work for all.

Making climate finance work for all: how to agree an ambitious NCQG

Date: Tuesday 4th June, 16.15 – 17.30 CEST

Venue: Berlin room, World Conference Center Bonn, Germany

The existing climate finance governance is inequitable, fails to adequately serve the needs of developing countries and has thus far proven insufficient in advancing climate justice. Hence, the NCQG, with its focus on scaling up financial support beyond the existing $100 billion annual target, offers a chance to right the wrongs of the previous political compromise and significantly enhance funding for resilience-building efforts in developing countries.

Bringing together thought leaders and changemakers in international climate finance and policy, the event aims to inform key political issues at the forefront of NCQG negotiations including:

• The importance of a goal with a core of public grant-based financing, the need for a distinction between provided and mobilized finance, and a discussion around what the role of mobilised finance should be.
• The importance of equity and CBDR-RC principles in the new goal and how this will affect the contributor base.

Participants

• Thibyan Ibrahim, Coordinator on Climate Finance for AOSIS
• Debbie Hillier, head of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance for Mercy Corps
• Laetitia Pettinotti, Research Fellow, ODI
• Bertha Argueta, Senior Advisor for Climate Finance and Development, Germanwatch
• Hendrikje Reich, Senior Climate Finance Policy Advisor, Federal Foreign Office of Germany

Full details of the Bonn Climate Change Conference can be found here.

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The EGU General Assembly 2024 will take place in a hybrid format from 14th-19th April 2024, providing a forum for geoscientists from all over the world – especially early-career scientists – to present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.

You can find out more about the event on the EGU2024 website.

Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance participation

Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance colleagues from IIASA, Z Zurich Foundation and Practical Action will be in attendance, presenting knowledge on climate resilience. Use the link below to find out more about the EGU session organized by Alliance members:

Resilience building, risk reduction to recovery: Assessments, frameworks, tools and experiences
Wednesday 17th April
Orals – 16:15–17:55 (CEST), Posters on site 10:45–12:30 (CEST), Posters virtual 14:00–15:45 (CEST)

Take a look at our blog from EGU23 which looks into what research has learned from recent disasters and where to go from here.

Keep up to date with the Alliance by following us on X at @floodalliance. 

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Session 3, 28th February 8:45-9:45 UTC – Challenges and Innovations in Dissemination and Communication for Early Warning Systems in Bangladesh: A Focus on Practical Action’s Approaches

In this session, Tamanna Rahman, Climate and Resilience Thematic Lead, will be sharing experiences, approaches, and lessons learned in taking a people-centred approach to developing multi-channel dissemination and tailored communication strategies to support inclusive Early Warning Systems in Bangladesh. Tamanna will discuss strategies for moving beyond pilot projects and collaboration with government institutions for sustainability and scale.

Poster session, 29th February 9:45-11:00 UTC – Putting the First Mile First: Empowering and Integrating Communities in Early Warning Systems for Proactive Response

This session presented by Mirianna Budimir, Senior Climate and Resilience Expert, on behalf of Practical Action’s EWS experts, will leverage Practical Action’s extensive experience across Latin America, Africa and South Asia to extract valuable lessons and examples. The focus will be on reorienting EWS priorities by starting with the ultimate goal—early action and reduced disaster impact—and working backward along the value chain.

The discussion will delve into barriers and challenges within the fourth component of EWS, touching upon issues of trust, social inequality, the ability to act, support mechanisms, safe spaces, practical knowledge, and the execution of appropriate actions. Mirianna will present strategies to extend beyond majority populations, ensuring the incorporation of the needs of the most vulnerable into response preparedness.

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The most vulnerable populations are confronting escalating losses and damages as a result of climate change. As we grapple with the increasing frequency and intensity of climate-induced disasters, the need for resources to support vulnerable communities facing irreparable losses and damages is more critical than ever. While the role and limits of humanitarian actors responding to loss and damage has been explored through the Transitional Committee, the creation of a Loss & Damage Fund could benefit from lessons across the humanitarian, development and peace nexus.

When and where?

Monday 4th December 2023, 15.00-16:30 GST, SE Room 2.

Participants:

• Mary Friel, Senior Climate Officer, Policy and Diplomacy, IFRC
• Barbara Rosen Jacobson, Advocacy Advisor, Mercy Corps
• Jackson Mekenye, Food Security & Livelihoods Coordinator, Concern Worldwide
• Sanny Ramos Jegillos, Senior Advisor, Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery for Building Resilience, UNDP
• Nimo Hassan, Director, Somalia NGO Consortium
• Prisca Chisala, Director of Programmes and Development, Malawi Red Cross

For other opportunities to hear from the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance in Dubai, visit our COP28 event page.

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