<p style=”margin-bottom: 13px; text-align: center;”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><b><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”>Source – live mint</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p style=”margin-bottom: 13px; text-align: center;”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><b><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”>GS Paper – 3</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
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<p style=”margin-bottom:13px”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><b><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”>Context – </span></span></span></b><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”background:white”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#212121″>Extreme weather and </span></span></span></span></span><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”background:white”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”>climate <span style=”color:#212121″>events have increased in frequency, intensity and severity as a result of </span>climate change<span style=”color:#212121″>, hitting vulnerable communities disproportionately hard, revealed a new United Nations (UN) report.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style=”margin-bottom:13px”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><b><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”background:white”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#212121″>HIGHLIGHTS</span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
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<li style=”margin-left:8px”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”>Report is released by <b>UN WORLD METEROLOGICAL ORGANISATION (WMO)</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-left:8px”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”background:white”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#212121″> Over the last 10 years (2010-2019), the percentage of disasters associated with weather, climate and water related events increased by 9% compared to the previous decade – and by almost 14% with respect to the decade 1991-2000.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-left:8px”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”background:white”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#212121″>The situation is particularly acute in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Least Developed Countries (LDCs).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-bottom:13px; margin-left:8px”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”background:white”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#212121″>After <b>Cyclone Pawan</b> made landfall in early December 2019, flooding in the Horn of Africa created highly favourable breeding conditions for the desert locust. The region is facing the worst desert locust crisis in over 25 years, and the most serious in 70 years for Kenya. Desert locust swarms are also moving across India, Pakistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style=”margin-left:24px; margin-bottom:13px”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><b><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”>RECOMMENDATIONS</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p style=”margin-left:48px”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”background:white”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#212121″>The report has outlined six key recommendations to improve the implementation and effectiveness of early warning systems, globally-</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<li style=”margin-left:56px”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”background:white”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#212121″>It has called for investing to fill the early warning systems capacity gaps</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-left:56px”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”background:white”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#212121″>To invest in African least developed countries and small island developing States. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-left:56px”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”background:white”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#212121″> The focus should be on the investment on turning early warning information into early action and ensuring sustainable financing of the global observing system that underpins early warnings.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-left:56px”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”background:white”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#212121″>Tracking finance flows to improve understanding of where these resources are being allocated in relation to early warning systems implementation needs and what impact this is having.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-left:56px; margin-bottom:13px”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”background:white”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#212121″>The countries should be developing more consistency in monitoring and evaluation to better determine early warning systems effectiveness and filling data gaps, particularly in small island developing States.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-bottom:8px; margin-left:56px; text-align:justify”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”background:white”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:black”>All countries should reduce their emissions by 45% from that of the 2010 levels. This is the only way to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Only 70 countries have agreed to carbon neutrality by 2050.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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