Congratulations to WRC director Carina Fearnley for being awarded the Freedom of the City of London from Lord Mayor, City of London Lord Mayor Michael Raymond Mainelli last Friday. The award dates back to 1237 🐑🐏. Read more 👇🏽

Together with our fellow projects PARATUS-EU, MYRIAD-EU and Directed Project, we are launching an Academy aimed to gather 30+ Early-Career Researchers and Practitioners to foster interdisciplinary collaboration in multi-hazard #DRR. Apply by August 13 👇 thehut-nexus.eu/event/multi-ha…

Applications for AWARD Fellowships's #AAWLCAFellowship are now open✍️🏾 The Fellowship will bring together #African women from 🇧🇯, 🇨🇲, 🇬🇭, 🇰🇪, 🇲🇼and 🇸🇳 working on #GenderResponsive climate solutions. Learn more and apply here bit.ly/AAWLCA24 #CLimateAdaptationREsilience

Great report by GSMA 'Enhancing inclusion in mobile-enabled risk communications: Lessons from South Africa' that uses a human-centred design approach to assess the accessibility & effectiveness of mobile risk communication for marginalised populations: gsma.com/solutions-and-…

New tool predicts rogue waves up to five minutes in advance | PreventionWeb preventionweb.net/quick/87540

Join us Tuesday 6th August 10:00-11:30 for The ISRM online meeting 'Global Urban Resilience – What is Resilience? Reconfiguring for the 2020’s', with a wonderful line up of experts from different sectors. More details & registration: theisrm.org/en/global-urba… #urbanresilience

Early Warnings for All intiative (EW4All): July 2024 updates | PreventionWeb preventionweb.net/quick/87857

Brilliant report on 'Early warning systems in fragility, conflict, and violence-affected settings: Shielding communities from natural hazards amid compounded crises' by GFDRR World Bank preventionweb.net/quick/87712

Japan’s magnitude 7.1 shock triggers megaquake warning PreventionWeb preventionweb.net/quick/88002

Europe’s most dangerous volcano rumbles, and Italians weigh the risk - this is why 'early warnings' may not be early... apple.news/AOV7eD6MkRciTv…

Please join us to discuss complexity in #DRR tomorrow at the #RGSIB2024 conference Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) 👇🏽

Come join us Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) conf session ‘Environmental Hazards Book Panel: Disasters and Risk Reduction’ by Deborah Dixon Carina Fearnley with panellists Mark Pelling & Andrew Barry Routledge Books 7th Ed Location ICL — SALC (Sherfield Building) Room 7, 29/08/24 2:40pm - 4:20pm BST

Early warning and location technology saves lives in Sri Lanka via PreventionWeb. - the role of technology for warnings in the fishing community preventionweb.net/quick/88128

WRC Director Carina Fearnley visits WTW on 26 September as part of their 2024 Natural Catastrophe Program! Join for 'Stemming the flow: Effective action against increasing flood loss' in-person or online. ✏️Register now: events.wtwco.com/event/5ba6e84f…

Sir Martin Moore-Bick, the Grenfell inquiry chairman, also placed blame for the fatal inferno on “decades of failure” by government ministers and officials who ignored a series of warnings over the risk of cladding fires. #dontignorewarnings apple.news/AL-UKWMYFTrS3-…

Extended abstract deadline of 29 Sept for RIMMA2025 International Conference on Forecasting, Preparedness, Warning, and Response on 'Visualization, Communication, and Information Management' 28 - 31 January Uni bern, Switzerland Oeschger Centre oeschger.unibe.ch/services/event…

Day 4 of High Impact Weather conference Universität München kicking off with Dr Sally Potter on Impact Based Forecast Warnings & the working groups key findings on research gaps 1) data, methods, and value 2) Connecting knowledge and 3) Stewardship with cost benefit analysis being key World Meteorological Organization

Wonderful to experience #Warntag here in Germany High Impact Weather conference where we got to experience a real time cell broadcast warning (test). I note my first message was in German, then English, but the website for further info is only in German: bbk.bund.de/SharedDocs/Ter…

One year ago we were in the middle of the 'Creating Effective Warnings For All' Conference @UCL! If you missed any of the materials take a look here ucl.ac.uk/sts/warning-re… UCL Risk and Disaster Reduction UCLsts Thanks to our sponsors Risk-informed Early Action Partnership CREWS Lloyd's Register Medici con l'Africa | Doctors with Africa Everbridge

Five ways AI can strengthen early warning systems. How AI can help particularly in the shift from hazard-based to impact-based EWS that go beyond predicting what the weather will be, towards what the weather will do unu.edu/ehs/series/5-w… Int’l Telecommunication Union Risk-informed Early Action Partnership High Impact Weather