Science, Trust and Society (part 1) (Part Two available here)
Summary:
This panel will dig deeper into the critical role of trust in understanding and communicating risk, drawing on experience in emergencies, including the continuing COVID pandemic, as well as the long-running challenge of raising confidence in vaccines. Panellists will consider the roles of government, media and civil society in building trust and confidence, helping the public develop the critical tools they need to filter information and take better decisions in the face of risk.
Speakers: Heidi Larson, David Reid, Leesa Lin, David Chan, Julian Tang, Tang Tong
This interactive session will spark thinking on the central role of public trust in understanding risk and taking the right actions to reduce risks through a serious game.
Next Generation Flood Modelling for Financial Resilience: Learning from the SEADRIF Experience
Summary:
Following the successful placement of the first flood insurance product for Lao PDR this session will initiate discussions regarding future design requirements for the flood model and platform in support of additional insurance products for SEADRIF member countries. The session will start with a small number of presentations covering what SEADRIF Insurance Company and its client countries require from a model along with an overview of the first flood model. Following this, the session will explore the market’s requirements for developing a future flood model ensuring technical feasibility and acceptability by the insurance industry.
Speakers:
Gary Rynsard Soo Hoon Hauw-Quek Somxay Keovandy Justin Ward Alastair Charles Norris Hang Thu Vu
Are You Prepared? Communicating Risk in the Face of Disasters
Summary:
The Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll 2021 interviews more than 150,000 people around the world to find out how prepared – or not – they feel in the event of a disaster. The results will highlight their worries and experiences of disasters to date and whether early warning signs were received in advance to help them prepare sufficiently. The Poll will ask people’s views on whether governments and local community infrastructure can keep them safe from harm – and shine a light on who people turn to, and trust, for information when it’s needed most. Join this session to see how you could play in part in the World Risk Poll 2021, working with the Foundation to help engineer a safer world for people everywhere. https://www.lrfoundation.org.uk Twitter: LR_Foundation LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lloyd’s-register-foundation
Open Knowledge Kit Regeneration Program – Local Knowledge, Local Jobs, Local Stewardship
Summary:
Open Knowledge Kit (OK Kit) is a free and open-source tool kit to empower local communities with digital employment and the stewardship of their economic, climate, and social prosperity. Locally trained non-technical, cross-sector community members can collect data, conduct surveys and interviews for infrastructure prioritization, disaster and climate change modeling and 3D reconstruction at much lower costs, at a faster pace, and with increased automation and validation, all using free and open source geospatial tools. Learn how this model helps provide better cross-sector data collection and analysis, prioritization, coordination, and monitoring to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. https://celinaagaton.com
Translating raw seasonal climate forecasts into country-level threat profiles presents notable challenges, both methodologically and operationally. To move toward an operational system, beneficial for decision making, we recommend 3 pathways for future activities: 1. Quality and skill assessments, including the validation of our approach with historical impact analysis, the incorporation of forecast product skills, 2. Mapping of influenced client’s services and mandates, 3. Tool design and integration, including the choice for risk scale flagging system. Seasonal forecasts have improved decision making in various sectors, however clear methods for integration within the development sector have been lacking – particularly in informing national and regional decision making. This session will explore some of the reasons for this gap, and present a novel analytical framework being developed by the World Bank and Columbia University to overlay seasonal forecasts with information on exposure and sensitivity to provide an easy-to-use and actionable framework for identifying upcoming risk hotspots to inform development programming. The session will also discuss options for encouraging greater innovation in tailoring weather and climate information to the complex operational environment facing national and regional decision makers, specific to sustainable development. We explore opportunities to promote efforts in combining seasonal forecasts with wider environmental and socio-economic outlooks to provide a more detailed assessment of the potential for compounding threats. @worldbank @climatesociety @columbiaclimate
Speakers: Lindsey Jones Andrew Kruczkiewicz Agathe Bucherie
Advancing Risk-Informed Decision Making in the Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities
Summary:
The objective of the session is to discuss the importance of risk databases for risk-informed decision-making and financial tools, illustrated with the Pacific Risk Information System (PacRIS). The community session will discuss the benefits of tools like PacRIS, as well as a range challenge associated with risk databases and their effective use, to then highlight opportunities for increasing risk data and information for the region. It will focus on: Developments in disaster risk (data/information) at the global level, zooming in to the status in the Pacific region and countries. Challenges and needs related to collecting data and using data for decision-making Opportunities and a way forward The session will be 1.5 hour-long session which will be facilitated virtually. A moderator will lead the proceedings and provide guidance for the interventions of panelists and comments/contributions for participants. Webinar participants will be able to pose questions or make comments using the ‘Chat’ function. The webinar will be recorded, and a report of the proceedings will subsequently be shared by the organizers. Links: https://www.spc.int https://www.worldbank.org/en/home
Speakers:
Habiba Gitay, Rashmin Gunasekera, Aholotu Palu, Litea Biukoto, Herve Damlamian, Garth Henderson, Saane Lolo, Karlos Lee Moresi, Eileen Turare, Simon Hagemann
In recent years, Dr Thomas’ research and writing have focused on climate change, including his 2017 book Climate Change and Natural Disasters. Understanding climate change risks, he argues, requires connecting the dots between the weather risks we experience or can at least imagine, and the invisible Greenhouse Gas Emissions which are causing these phenomena. Attribution – demonstrating with scientific evidence the connection between natural disasters and climate change – so that we can in the future refer to them as climate disasters, is essential. Runaway climate change is shifting risk profiles in Asia and things will have to be approached differently for the region to be resilient. Drawing on the latest research and his own personal experience, Dr Thomas will lay out what could be the new risk profiles in Asia and what must be done differently to increase resilience.
