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New India: Sustainable Development for All (NISDI) नवीन भारत : सबका साथ सबका ‘सतत’ �वकास

Dr. Anil K GuptaHead, Division of Environment Disaster Risk Reduction

& Centre of Excellence on Climate Change (MoH&FW, DST, MOEFCC)

National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM)

Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi

IUCN-CEM South Asia

WMO Climate Statement Expert Team

Recent Developments in Disaster

Risk Reduction Paradigm

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Disaster Management

� Paradigm shift from Response & Relief to Mitigation and Preparedness Centric

� Loss of Life – Reduced substantially but economic & other “non-economic” losses and damages continue to increase

� Legal and institutional mechanisms for disaster Management, Plans and Programmes

Key Challenges� Multi - Hazard Vulnerability Assessment at District /

Sub-district levels

� Understanding of changing risk scenarios with anthropogenic / developmental and environmental changes vis a vis climatic uncertainties

� Disaster Management Plans/Strategies Mainstreaming at Sectoral levels (within Government, Business and Community)

� Scientific and Systematic Approach to Post-disaster Assessments

� Valuation of Non-economic impacts, i.e. environmental, systematic & social impacts of disasters

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New Policy Paradigm

� Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-30)

� Paris Climate Agreement (2015-30)

� Sustainable Development Goals (2015-30)

� Transition from Hyogo Framework to SFDRR

� Priority 4 of HFA (i.e. Addressing Underlying Factors of Risk) became Priority 1 in SFDRR ‘Understanding Disaster Risk’

� Evidence Based and Indicator Based Assessments

Environment, Climate & Disasters

� Stockhom 1972

� Rio Summit 1992

� WSSD 2002 (Rio+10)

� UNFCCC (UNEP+WMO)

� 4th AR (2007)

� SREX Report 2012 (Asia)

� Paris Climate Agreement 2015

� 1.5 Degree Report (2018)

� 4x4 Assessment Report (India)

� Climate change aggravates

hazards

� CC increases vulnerability

(land, people, infrastructure)

� Threefold relations:

� Environmental changes as driver of disaster risk

� Disasters cause damage / losses to environment (which further aggravate disaster risk)

� Environment management reduce disaster risk & vulnerability

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SFDRR Operational Needs

� Translating CCA—DRR Convergence to National / sub-national and local DRR /Development frameworks

� Disaster Risk Management Plans –National /state, local, sector specific, department specific, etc.

Emerging Critical Areas for DRR� Land-use and Landscape Based Planning/ Urban and Peri-

urban Systems /Eco-DRR / Nature Based Solutions

� Environmental Emergencies/ Fog / Smog ( Air, Water, Wastes)

� Climate Proofing Industrial Systems

� Integrating Chemical-Industrial Safety DRR into Holistic Disaster Management System

� CSR – Paradigm shift from Expenditure to Investment (through DRR and CCA)

� Chemical Awareness – Life, Home, Food, Labs, Asbestos, etc.

� Safety & DRM in in University / College Curriculum (Interdisciplinary/Professional)

� Occupational, Environmental & Industrial Health (National Flagship Programmes)

� Failure Data / Accidents Analysis Reports?? (India edition)

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Risk to Resilience Framework

ISET, NIDM, GEAG

Scaling Up 3 States and National Level Lessons

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ecoDRR

� UN-PEDRR (Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction) collaborating UNEP Geneva: Since 2010 Bonn.

� First pilot PEDRR Training Course in Sri Lanka in May 2011.

� Following, NIDM and PEDRR organized national / regional trainings (Dec 2011 International, Delhi)

� ecoDRR International Training Manual by UNEP.

� Indian Case Studies – 12, Published as Book on ecoDRR.

� Special Side Events – Policy Dialogue at 6th AMCDRR Bangkok (NIDM, UNEP, Kyoto University, ICIMOD) 2014.

� ecoDRR now recognized stream through HFA-2/SFDRR, SDGs, Paris Agreement, PM Agenda 10 and National DM Plan.

UNU / UNEP

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Chapter on “Role of EIA and SEA in DRR”

published by UNU, Bonn, Germany.

MOEFCC-GOI Accepted, in

principle

DIA Tool in

Making as integration

to EIA

National Programme on DIA

Integration with EIA (2018)

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National / Sectors•• All development sectors must

•imbibe the principles of disaster risk

•management

•• Work towards risk coverage for all

•• Encourage greater participation and leadership of women in disaster risk management

•• Invest in risk mapping globally

•• Leverage technology to enhance the efficiency of disaster risk management efforts

•• Develop a network of Universities to work on disaster issues

•• Utilize the opportunities provided by social media and mobile technologies

•• Built local capacities and initiatives

•• Ensure the opportunity to learn from a disaster is not wasted

•• Bring about greater cohesion in international disaster response

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Govt. of Maharasthra,

Oxford Policy Management,

Climate Act (NIDM –Technical Guidance)

� Case Study Compendium (20)

� Training Toolkit

� Training Modules: Generic, Drought, Flood, Urban

� Pilot TOT Workshops

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Capacity Building Toolkit for

Urban Local Bodies on

CLIMATE RESILIENT

CITIES

WITH focus on Children’s

Vulnerability

2019

UNICEF India & GEAG

Climate Adaptive Planning for Resilience and Sustainable Development DST – GOI funded project under NKMCC, 3 Yrs

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Recent Initiatives

� Resilient Agriculture Systems Roadmap and

Action Plan (DM Plan of Ministry of Agriculture &

FW) – 1 Year.

� Climate Adaptation Plan (Disaster related

illnesses) – MoH&FW / Climate Change & Health

(Knowledge Capacity Toolkit) – WHO – 6 months.

• Policy Volume on Climate Change and Disaster

Risk Management (MoEFCC Sponsored). For

release in COP

• Mainstreaming DRR into Rural Development Sector

/ Programmes (TOT / Courses under NCRMP- 1 / 2)

• Cyclone Phani Impact and Recovery Studies w.r.t..

Forest and Ecosystems (with CSIR-NEERI)

Capacity Gaps and Local Strategies in

HSM and Safety Culture

� HSM Chair: New project concept (MOEFCC) / CSR -PSUs

� Hazardous materials/Hazardous wastes including chemicals, bio-medical, electronic wastes, asbestos, disaster wastes, etc.

� Integration with holistic DM framework

� Integration with national flagship programmes / mission

� Land-use based planning and resource mobilization

� Community-Govt-NGO participatory framework

� Compendium of Case Studies / Good Practices –Springer Nature Publishing (Berlin)

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