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1 World Meteorological Organization Executivee Council Working Group on Disaster Risk Reductions Expert Group on WMO Global Multi-Hazard Alert System (EG-GMAS) First Session October 2017, Geneva, Switzerland EG-GMAS/Doc.5(1) Submitted by: the Secretariat 14.X.2017 DRAFT 1 POLICY ASPECTS OF WMO GLOBAL MULTI-HAZARD ALERT SYSTEM The following need to be considered (in conjunction with the outcomes of the Technical Aspectss document) in the policy aspect document: Ref: Annex to the Decision 3 (EC-69): Vision for WMO Global Multi-Hazard Alert system: To be recognized globally by decision makers as a resource of authoritative warnings and information related to high-impact weather, water, ocean and climate events. Figure 1: Draft of the simplified GMAS Framework

2 EG-GMAS/Doc.5(1), DRAFT 1, p. 2 Below are suggested areas and points for discussion by the Expert Group on GMAS with a view of providing advice/recommendation for drafting the GMAS Concept: 1. What are the drivers? EG-GMAS is invited to identify major drivers for GMAS that should be communicated to Members and be included in the GMAS Concept, e.g.: (h) (i) (j) (k) (l) (m) (n) World Meteorological Organization Convention: All WMO Members need to work together to coordinate, standardize, improve and encourage efficiencies in the exchange of meteorological, climatological and hydrological and related information between them, in the aid of human activities; Meteorology is best coordinated at the international level; and, The need for close cooperation with other international organizations. A need to make warning information from all countries easily available for decision makers in UN humanitarian agencies, economic sectors, general public; Increasing impacts related to weather, water and climate hazards at the national, regional and global levels; The significant advancements in the accuracy and timeliness of monitoring, forecasting and warnings capacities; The development of global indicators to measure success of warnings (i.e. Sendai Framework Agreement) which will require coordinated responses from Members; Member States of the United Nations call for strengthened regional and international cooperation to develop science-based methodologies and tools to support MHEWS; Cg-17 Resolution 10 Sendai Framework for DRR and WMO participation in International Network for Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (IN-MHEWS); Cg-17 Para of general summary Congress highlighted global target of Sendai Framework: substantially increase the availability of and access to MHEWS and disaster risk info and assessments to people by 2030; Cg-17 Resolution 9 decide to develop identifiers for cataloguing weather, water and climate extreme events in cooperation with institutions having competences provide an unambiguous reference for associated losses and damages promote consistency in characterization of extreme events; Cg-17 Annex to para NMHSs are official authoritative source,, a single voice, ; Cg-17 Resolution 2 Congress considered Members expressed a need for improved service delivery to the public, disaster community and social and economic sectors; EC-68 Decision 5 need to assist Members to be more responsive to changing societal needs to provide Multi-Hazard Impact-Based Forecast and Risk-Based Warning Services to public to fulfilling Members role as authoritative voice; CBS-14 Decision 2.1(1).10 engage Members in (i) WMO Register of Alerting Authorities; (ii) adopting Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) for communicating warnings and alerts, and to promote WMO Alert Hub; Cg-17 Resolution 5 enhance the SWIC website to disseminate weather warnings provided by CAP format by Members.

3 EG-GMAS/Doc.5(1), DRAFT 1, p Who are the target users and who are the priority VIP users (highlighted bold)? EG-GMAS is invited to identify the priority users that should be recognized in the GMAS Concept, e.g.: [Ref: Annex to the Decision 3 (EC-69): We want to catalyse an energized conversation with all stakeholders across the wide spectrum which is DRR, ] [Ref: Decision 3 (EC-69): Requests the EC WG/DRR: to accommodate public and private capacities ] [Ref: Annex to the Decision 3 (EC-69): Vision for WMO global multi-hazard early warning system. warnings and information related to high-impact weather, water, ocean and climate events this has to be defined vis-à-vis the target user requirements. ] United Nations system, especially those that have operational centres, such as the UN Operations and Crisis Centre (UNOCC), the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), plus other relevant UN agencies, including the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS) the cooperation framework between the United Nations, European Commission and disasters managers worldwide to improve alerts and information exchange; the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), UNESCO, UNESCO- IOC, WFP, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), UNSPIDER, UNDP, UNEP, ITU; International, non-governmental, organization involved in DRR (see the International Register of Alerting Authorities (IRAA) established by WMO and ITU, available at: such as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS), and he International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM); the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) with its World-Wide Navigational Warning Service (WWNWS), which form part of the Maritime Safety Information (MSI) and are broadcasted via NAVTEX and SafetyNET. WMO Members (NMHSs as well as other national official alerting authorities); General Public, including media, public, private and non-profit communities and community based disaster risk management organizations; Others? 3. Who should we engage with and why (project stakeholders) and who are the priority VIP stakeholders (highlighted bold)? EG-GMAS is invited to identify the priority stakeholders that should be recognized in the GMAS Concept, e.g.: WMO Global and Regional Specialized Centres, such as: The Severe Weather Information Centre (SWIC); The World Weather Information Service (WWIS), including its mobile app MyWorldWeather, hosted and operated by the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) on behalf of WMO;

4 EG-GMAS/Doc.5(1), DRAFT 1, p. 4 (h) Tropical Cyclone Warning Centres (TCWCs), see item (h) below for details; Regional Specialized Meteorological Centres (RSMC), see item below for details; Other relevant WMO Global and Regional Projects (???); Regional, sub-regional and national platforms: MeteoAlarm of the European Meteorological Services Network (EUMETNET); MeteoAlert of Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring of Russia (Roshydromet); South-East Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (SEE-MHEWS) being developed for SEE Europe; WMO Alert Hub being developed by NOAA; WMO Members, with a special focus on those which conduct operational activities that can be used as pilot or demonstration projects, case studies and as a good practice for GMAS, e.g.: Regional, sub-regional and national platforms operated by Members on behalf of WMO mentioned above; Filtered Alert Hub, being developed by NOAA under the Bid Data Project; UK Met Office Global Hazard Risk Mapping; Meteo France CAP-based WINTDO (What I need to Do) Toolkit; China's National Early Warning Release Center, NEWRC (the Center studies and formulates relevant policies and technical standards) and China's National Early Warning Release System (NEWRS); The German Weather Service, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) implementation of CAP; Norway on cooperation between MET Norway and the Norwegian Broadcasting Company; Other countries relevant projects (e.g., Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mexico, Zimbabwe, etc.) The relevant WMO Technical Commissions & Programmes, their working mechanisms and including their relevant projects, such as: The WMO Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP); The Coastal Inundation Forecasting Demonstration Project (CIFDP, DPFS Division); The Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS, Hydrology Division); Some of the projects, for example the SWFDP (DPFS) of southern Africa, are already planning on a regional system to aggregate warnings, which would feed into the GMAS system; The WMO Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System (SDS-WAS) with two existing nodes are established: The Northern Africa-Middle East-Europe Node (hosted by Spain) and the Asian Node (hosted by China); The WMO Regional Associations, their working mechanisms and including Regional Specialized Meteorological Centres (RSMC): Nadi-Tropical Cyclone Centre/Fiji Meteorological Service, Fiji; La Réunion-Tropical Cyclone Centre/Meteo-France, France; Tropical Cyclones New Delhi/India Meteorological Department, India; Tokyo-Typhoon Center/Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan; Miami-Hurricane Center; Honolulu Hurricane Center/National Hurricane Center, USA; The WMO Tropical Cyclone Warning Centres (TCWC): Wellington/Meteorological Service of New Zealand, New Zealand; Port Moresby/National Weather Service, Papua New Guinea; Brisbane, Darwin, Perth/Bureau of Meteorology, Australia; Jakarta/BMKG, Indonesia;

5 EG-GMAS/Doc.5(1), DRAFT 1, p. 5 (i) Tsunami warning centres, such as: The NOAA s National Weather Service Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC); Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre (JATWC); Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS); Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysical Agency of Indonesia (BMKG); (j) ICAO Volcanic Ash Advisory Centers (VAACS): Anchorage, AK, United States; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Darwin, Australia; London, United Kingdom; Montreal, Canada; Tokyo, Japan; Toulouse, France; Washington, DC, United States; Wellington, New Zealand; (k) International/Intergovernmental organizations: ECMWF, including its Extreme Forecasts Index (EFI); EUMETSAT, including its role of CAP in the support of DRR (e.g., volcanic ash and fire detection) as well as its EUMETCast; The German Aerospace Center (DLR) Project on a Multi-Hazard Open Platform for Satellite Based Downstream Services (PHAROS), which has a CAP alerting component; Sahana Foundation (open source disaster management software providers) with its Alerting and Messaging Broker (SAMBRO), already operational in Maldives, Myanmar, and the Philippines; Others; (l) Private sector: Google with its Google Crisis Response, including Google Crisis Map and Google Public Alerts as an online notification service; The Local Alert Platform developed by The Weather Company (TWC) and IBM and piloted in the Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA); IBM; Amazon; Samsung; Cloud services providers; Others; (m) Others. 4. What are the proposed benefits of the concept? EG-GMAS is invited to identify major benefits of GMAS that should be communicated to Members and recognized in the GMAS Concept, e.g.: Increased visibility and the recognition of the NMHS products and services; Better informed decision makers in humanitarian agencies as well as general public through quick access to the authoritative/verified national warning information via a common platform; Increased standardization of hydrometeorological warning information among WMO Members, especially through utilization of Common Alerting Protocol (CAP); Increased sharing and harmonization (when appropriate) of warning products among WMO Members of hydrometeorological hazard information; Increased understanding of hydrometeorological warning information through utilization of standards, such as CAP; Increased focus on NMHS capacity development to provide reliable, actionable and timely warnings for hydrometeorological hazards;

6 EG-GMAS/Doc.5(1), DRAFT 1, p. 6 Others? 5. Policy related to GMAS implementation The above areas and points for discussion determine the policy that would drive the development of the GMAS Concept. EG-GMAS is invited to identify critical policies, including modalities how to address them, e.g.: (h) (i) Agreement on a Policy Statement regarding GMAS that would complement the Vision adopted through Annex to Decision 3 of EC-69 ( To be recognized globally by decision makers as a resource of authoritative warnings and information related to high-impact weather, water, ocean and climate events ), e.g., GMAS to position WMO and its Members DRM activities as a cornerstone in our efforts to foster resilient and sustainable growth and development; Agreement with the major stakeholders and users in GMAS; Agreement with private sector entities active in DRR and playing currently a role on global scale; Recognition of the authority of the respective NMHSs in providing static and dynamic information to users through GMAS; Priorities for alerting critical VIP users, (push service); Focus on a use of the up-to-date scientific and technological knowledge and institutional analysis to better predict and disseminate the hydrometeorological hazards through GMAS; Agreement on the complementary functions and responsibilities of GMAS with those of the official national alerting authorities (such as NMHSs) who have the authoritative voice in issuing forecasts and warning over their own countries; Enhancement of the commitment of Members to participate in, and implement GMAS; in doing so paying attention to the promotion of DRR at local level, with efforts linked across the regional, sub-regional, national and local scales; How to ensure that GMAS is prioritised in Members policy frameworks and fully integrated in institutional practices; (j) Adoption of CAP as the WMO standard with a lead time for implementation; (k) Adoption of a Common global Technical Platform (CTP) for hydrometeorological hazards, as the WMO RSMC to be included in the WMO Technical Regulations (GDPFS Manual); (l) (m) (n) (o) (p) (q) (r) Definition of a procedure for selection and identification of an entity where CTP would be best positioned from the point of view of both policy and technical issues; Definition of best practice for GMAS, with a reference to existing examples of best practice ; Addressing also future challenges in DRR, not just those we face now; Sharing experience and Capacity Development (CD), as well as technical and institutional support to national official alerting authorities; Translation of GMAS policy and techniques into national legislation and organizational structures; Agreement on regular (real-time) monitoring and evaluation of GMAS; Others. 6. GMAS Roadmap EG-GMAS is invited to comment on the roadmap for development and implementation of GMAS, e.g.: The 1 st Draft of the GMAS Concept October 2017, 1 st mtg of EG- GMAS;

7 EG-GMAS/Doc.5(1), DRAFT 1, p. 7 The 2 nd Draft of the GMAS Concept 17 November 2017, for a discussion by EC-WG-DRR at teleconference; The 3 rd Draft of the GMAS Concept, December 2017, for a discussion by DRR-FP-RA-TC-TP; The 4 th Draft of the GMAS Concept January 2018, for discussion by PTC/PRA; Final Draft of the GMAS Concept and the 1st Draft of the GMAS Strategy March 2018, for discussion by EC-WG/DRR; Approval of the GMAS Concept 2 nd Q 2018, for consideration by EC-70; The 2 nd Draft of the GMAS Strategy and the 1 st Draft of the GMAS Implementation Plan 3 rd Q 2018, 2 nd mtg of EG-GMAS; (h) Final Draft of the GMAS Strategy and the 2 nd Draft of the GMAS Implementation Plan 4 th Q 2018, ED-WG-DRR; (i) Approval of GMAS Strategy 2 nd Q 2019, for consideration by Cg-18; (j) Approval of GMAS Implementation Plan and demonstration of GMAS Concept by Pilot & Demonstration Projects 2 nd Q 2020, for consideration by EC-72; (k) GMAS Implementation - January 2021 December 2024 (l) Preoperational activities of GMAS serving targeted users, such as from UN System 2 nd Q 2022; (m) GMAS Operational December Other issues? to be completed during the session