Over the last decade, the understanding and use of early warning and early action (including anticipatory action) to reduce the impacts of climate-related hazards has progressed significantly. However, there is still a long way to go to embed them as normative approaches, with questions remaining over how to improve the quality and quantity of finance for early action, how to reach the ‘first/last mile’ most effectively, and how to achieve true collaboration across sectors, among others.
The Risk-informed Early Action Partnership (REAP) was launched at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in 2019 to help address the lack of coherence and complementarity across early warning and early action efforts, and to enable impact at scale through a multi-stakeholder approach that connects the humanitarian, development, and climate communities. REAP’s founding partners set an ambitious aim of achieving scale by 2025 – a deadline which is fast approaching. Meanwhile, the operating environment has changed significantly, with several complementary initiatives and partnerships arising since REAP’s inception.
This dialogue will encourage participants to reflect on the future trajectory of early warning and early action, balancing the progress of recent years with the urgent need to do more to reduce the impacts of climate-related disasters. Thought leaders from governments, INGOs, UN agencies, the private sector, and related initiatives, networks and partnerships will come together to lay the groundwork for a shared long-term vision for collaboration and cooperation on early warning and early action, and establish a roadmap to success.
Specific objectives for this event include:
- To highlight the progress and advances made by early warning and early action in getting ahead of disasters, as well as barriers to scale and how to address them;
- To build consensus around the persistent challenges to aligning and coordinating early warning and early action, and how to address them;
- To co-develop a vision for the role of REAP in the post-2025 environment – and how to deliver on it.
Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory image of Hurricane Beryl approaching the Caribbean, by Michala Garrison using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE GIBSWorldview and the Joint Polar Satellite System
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