Risk Management in the Global-to-Local and Now-to-Decadal Agendas

As we look ahead to integrated risk management, it is important to note that, in addition to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2019 ranking extreme weather events and failure of action on climate change mitigation and adaptation as the two most likely and impacting risks for the next decade, to 2030, it is important to recognize that most countries agreed to Global Agenda 2030 which includes: the Sustainable Development Goals, (e.g., Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable); Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, including Investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience; and Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response, and to “Build Back Better”; and the Paris Agreement, which in addition to the emissions targets, includes commitments on systematic observation of the climate system and early warning systems and national adaptation plans. Achieving the Global Agenda 2030 needs to be viewed in the context of the national and sub-national-local agendas as well as the context the timing – now, the next election and 2030. We need to have a conversation over these issues and how the science communities, including socio-economic, engineering and health as well as weather-climate scientists, can most effectively have transdisciplinary conversations to motivate the development of methods and strategies and well as how to move the strategies to action.