{"id":34636,"date":"2022-11-08T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T03:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=34636"},"modified":"2025-04-20T15:49:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T10:19:03","slug":"early-warning-system-for-the-entire-world-in-next-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/early-warning-system-for-the-entire-world-in-next-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Warning System for the Entire World in Next Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>About the CRDI<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Taking forward the initiative of the India-backed\u00a0<strong>Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure\u00a0<\/strong>(CDRI), the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) recently announced a 5-year program to establish early warning systems around the world.<\/li>\n<li>The proposal calls for a $3.1 billion investment between 2023-27 to increase infrastructure and capacity in early warning systems.<\/li>\n<li>The above program was announced\u00a0by the UN Secretary General\u00a0at the ongoing COP27 climate change conference at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Background &#8211; Need for a disaster-resilient infrastructure:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Many countries, including India, have established robust disaster management practices that have significantly reduced human casualties in disasters.<\/li>\n<li>However, the economic costs of a disaster remain enormous, owing primarily to the destruction of large infrastructure.\n<ul>\n<li>The World Bank estimates that Cyclone Fani, which hit Odisha in 2019, caused $4 billion damage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>As a result, future infrastructure must account for the increased risks associated with the increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events of climate change.<\/li>\n<li>Disaster-proofing a project to make them more\u00a0<strong>disaster-resilient<\/strong>\u00a0would involve changes in design, use of newer technologies, involving additional costs which is only a fraction of what a disaster can bring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>CRDI is an India-backed international platform, announced by the Prime Minister of India at the\u00a0UN Secretary General&#8217;s Climate Action Summit in New York in 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Secretariat of CDRI would be based in New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>CDRI isan attempt to bring countries together to share and learn from the experiences of one another\u00a0to protect their key infrastructure\u00a0&#8211; highways, railways, power stations, communication lines, etc., against disasters.<\/li>\n<li>It aims to assist member nations in integrating disaster management policies into all of their activities.<\/li>\n<li>CDRI members include not just countries, but\u00a0UN bodies, financial institutions, groups working on disaster management, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Significance:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>To identify and promote best practices<strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0This means, the platform is not meant to plan, execute or finance infrastructure projects.<\/li>\n<li>To provide access to capacity building.<\/li>\n<li>To work towards standardisationof designs, processes and regulations relating to infrastructure creation and management.<\/li>\n<li>To make entire networks resilient, as modern infrastructure is also a web of networked systems, not always confined to national boundaries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>News Summary:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Need of early warning systems around the world:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>According to the WMO, nearly half of the world&#8217;s countries, the majority of which are least developed and small island states, lack early warning systems.<\/li>\n<li>Early warning systems\u00a0save lives and give significant economic advantages. For example,\n<ul>\n<li>A mere 24 hours&#8217; notice of an upcoming hazardous occurrence can reduce the resulting harm by 30%.<\/li>\n<li>Spending roughly $ 800 million on early warning systems might save up to $ 3-16 billion in damages per year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>CDRI proposed a similar concept last year, focusing mostly on small island states.\n<ul>\n<li>The program &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Infrastructure for Resilient Island States<\/strong>\u00a0(IRIS), was designed to assist in the establishment of early warning systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highlights from the UN Secretary General&#8217;s address at the launch event:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Despite decades of climate discussions, progress has been insufficient to preserve the globe from catastrophic warming because governments are too slow or unwilling to act.<\/li>\n<li>Countries gathered at the COP27 summit face a difficult choice &#8211; work together now to cut emissions or perish, as the world is on a highway to climate hell with foot on the accelerator.<\/li>\n<li>Signatories to the2015 Paris climate agreement pledged to a long-term objective of keeping global temperatures from increasing more than 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels.\n<ul>\n<li>To keep any hope alive of meeting that goal means achievingglobal net zero emissions by 2050<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is either a\u00a0Climate Solidarity Pact or a Collective Suicide Pact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>A partnership<\/strong>\u00a0between the world&#8217;s richest and poorest countries is needed to hasten the transition away from fossil fuels and accelerate the transfer of funds needed to enable poorer countries to reduce emissions.\n<ul>\n<li>The world&#8217;s two largest economies (the US and China) bear a special duty to work together to make this agreement a reality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0urged countries to agree to phase out the use of coal by 2040, with members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reaching that goal by 2030.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRDI is an India-backed international platform, announced by the Prime Minister of India at the UN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}