Council on Energy, Environment and Water Integrated | International | Independent
30 Aug 2022 | 1000 – 1500 IST
The National Dialogue ‘How can India make climate information people-centric?’ hosted by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) and the India Meteorological Department (IMD) aims to address the urgent need for a people-centric and comprehensive Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (MHEWS) at the national and sub-national levels to increase the resilience of India’s most vulnerable communities to extreme hydro-met disasters.
The Dialogue will bring together key stakeholders, including central agencies like the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and IMD, state agencies like the State Disaster Management Authorities, meteorological agencies, etc., to improve impact-based forecasting and end-to-end information dissemination, and to encourage accurate and timely warnings to vulnerable communities. The Dialogue further aims to discuss the gaps around the availability, accessibility and effectivity of EWS/MHEWS that need to be addressed to enhance community and organisational resilience and the best practices to climate-proof lives, livelihoods, infrastructure and economies.
Dr M. Ravichandran
Secretary
Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)
Kamal Kishore
Member Secretary
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)
Bahar Dutt
Environment Journalist
Amit Prothi
Director General
Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)
Krishna S. Vatsa
Member
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)
Harsh Gupta
IAS, Project Director
NCRMP (National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project), NDMA
Dr Aakash Shrivastava
Additional Director and Head
Centre for Environmental and Occupational Health, Climate Change and Health, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)
Dr Madhavan Nair Rajeevan
Former Secretary
Ministry of Earth Sciences
Pradeep Jena
IAS, Development Commissioner-cum- Additional Chief Secretary and Managing Director
Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA), Government of Odisha
Supriya Sahu
IAS, Additional Chief Secretary
Department of Environment, Climate Change & Forests, Government of Tamil Nadu
Dr Uday Kant Mishra
Vice Chairman
Bihar State Disaster Management Authority (BSDMA), Government of Bihar
Prof Janki Andharia
Dean of the School of Disaster Studies
Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai
Stefania Benaglia
EU-Asia, Public Diplomacy expert,
Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Valerie Risk
Vice President
Everbridge (International)
Arunabha Ghosh
CEO
CEEW
Dr Vaibhav Chaturvedi
Fellow
CEEW
Shreya Wadhawan
Research Analyst
CEEW
