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Webinar: Could El Niño Long Range Warning System help countries manage the effects of severe weather events?
08 June 2020

Join us for a free webinar as we discuss this important matter – https://cutt.ly/LRWSwebinar

 

Currently many countries are experiencing severe drought. Could the impacts of drought have been minimised with an effective long-range warning system (LRWS)?

 

Tonkin + Taylor in partnership with Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), Committee on Data (CODATA) of the International Science Council (ISC), have brought together three of the world’s leading Disaster Risk Reduction experts Bapon Fakhruddin, Mickey Glantz and Kareff Rafisura to share how LRWS can help communities and industries prepare for severe weather events and the impacts of El Niño.

 

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