GEO Disaster Resilience Breakout Group Summary GEO Work Programme Symposium 2016 Kerry Ann Sawyer CEOS/NOAA 4 May 2016 Geneva, Switzerland

By increasing capacity to prepare, forecast, mitigate, manage and recover from disasters; in order to achieve a substantial reduction of risk and losses of life and property through an understanding of disaster risk brought by maintaining and strengthening in situ and remotely-sensed Earth and climate observations while enhancing the access to, and the sharing and use of, data and information obtained through such observations. Disaster Resilience SBA This is our opportunity to structure the SBA community; to create a permanent consultation forum for the implementation of the Disaster Resilience SBA and the Strategic Plan and to identify new activities

Disaster Resilience SBA – 2016

Sendai Framework Goal: Prevent new and reduce existing disaster risk through the implementation of integrated and inclusive economic, structural, legal, social, health, cultural, educational, environmental, technological, political and institutional measures that prevent and reduce hazard exposure and vulnerability to disaster, increase preparedness for response and recovery, and thus strengthen resilience. Seven Targets Where GEO can most contribute with Work Programme – develop strategy to achieve this Target: Substantially increase the number of countries with national and local disaster risk reduction strategies by 2020 Four Priorities: Priority 1: Understanding disaster risk Priority 2: Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk Priority 3: Investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience Priority 4: Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response and to “Build Back Better”

“The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction calls for enhanced access to, sharing of, and use of non-sensitive data and information, communications and geospatial and space- based technologies and related services through international cooperation, as well as continued and strengthened in-situ and remotely sensed Earth and climate observations.” Summit on Climate Change and Disaster Management Sep 2015 Disasters and Climate Change - Connection Climate change is producing new types of disasters and community must be prepared not only for traditional disasters in historical areas (i.e., flooding in a particular area of a river) but also identify areas where new disasters are likely to occur.

Summary of Session Objectives, Key Questions, and Expected Outcomes o Identify the role of disaster activities in the global framework o How can the GEO community contribute in a useful way, taking into consideration already existing activities (how can GEO build upon what is already available) o Where is GEO unique? Take advantage of convening power of GEO because GEO takes people of different competencies and provides one forum – start end-to-end activities to bridge the gap between providers and end users Important to determine what GEO can specifically deliver on top of what is already being delivered by existing entities; what can GEO bring to the table that is different than the existing mechanisms Discussed the need to develop a community portal for disasters since one does not currently exist. Discussed how to connect existing portals (UN- SPIDER knowledge portal) – to GCI for provision of datasets Prevention and reconstruction – this is where GEO can deliver

Summary of Session There is no way to think global – two countries may experience same disaster and address completely differently because of national institutions o There are common components for any disaster; may be an opportunity to prepare templates for each type of disaster to provide guidance to national civil protection agency on steps to address the disaster Disaster Resilience SBA Breakout Session was lightly attended –It was an open session but seemed more like invitation only –Some geographic regions were not represented at all Identified need to get a full-time disaster expert at the GEO Secretariat as soon as possible who is knowledgeable in disaster arena and can foster relationship of trust with all disaster entities Bardarbunga erupting in Photo credit: M Parks

Summary of Session Partners – OGC, ISDR, in addition to those already identified in existing GIs and CAs o BUT…is it possible to propose that GEO Members nominate specific POCs for Disaster Resilience SBA? Users o User of disaster data doesn’t necessarily care where information/data comes from but data (products) must arrive in good quality and in a form that is most easily digestible for user o Need to investigate for each disaster who is the end user o Decision-makers and first responders just want information to take decisions o Need definition of user – ties to level of authority of players, then tie to component process

The GEO User – Discovered …and even branded

BACK UP SLIDES

Identify key medium- and long-term objectives of the Disaster Resilience SBA Address and identify user needs (data, GCI functionalities), policies, priorities and partners for existing Community Activities and GEO Initiatives; map global activities and actors Have a clear view on contribution, deliverables, organization, and timeline of GEO activities culminating in the development of a consolidated SBA scenario/roadmap for reference for GEO Members and Participating Organizations to plan and implement future actions Identify new activities to be included in Work Programme Objectives

How do we identify partners and priorities? OUTCOME: Identify Partners and Priorities How do we shape the activities of the Disaster Resilience SBA to address these priorities? OUTCOME: Establish a Roadmap of user requirements (data, GCI functionalities, etc.) What will specifically be delivered by GEO? OUTCOME: Identify Deliverables and Timeline What will be efficient partnership/cooperation mechanisms? OUTCOME: List of Potential Partnerships and Engagement Mechanisms Key Questions and Expected Outcomes

GEO-DARMA Goal Enhance use of EO data for better-informed Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience decision making How ? Series of end-to-end projects addressing priorities of the “Sendai Framework for DRR”. International Cooperation. Engagement of all stakeholders (end users, data & risk information providers, internat./national agencies, donor institutions,…)

GEO-DARMA Partnership & Framework International partnership with key stakeholders dealing with DRM, to address high priorities of Sendai framework with resources available, on a best effort basis, adopting a phased approach if extra resources and funding identified KO+ 6-8KO

The GSNL 2.0 Initiative The Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratory initiative is a voluntary international partnership aiming to improve, through an Open Science approach, geophysical scientific research and geohazard assessment in support of Disaster Risk Reduction. The partnership  The global scientific community  The satellite data providers: CEOS  The in situ data providers: local monitoring agencies The end users Decision-makers: Civil Protection agencies, governments, regional aviation authorities, etc.

Science Product A’ Collaborative knowledge processing (compare, validate, model, report) Collaborative knowledge processing (compare, validate, model, report) Consensus product generation (hazard model, predictive scenario, etc.) Consensus product generation (hazard model, predictive scenario, etc.) Science Product … Science Product A’’’ Science Product … Science Product A’’ CEOS Satellite data In-situ data Virtual repository Virtual repository Science Team #1 Science Team #2 Science Team #3 The Supersite Conceptual Model Collaborative process coordinated by local scientists Science products User needs Risk Managers & Decision Makers