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- Dictionaryear·ly warn·ing sys·tem
noun
- 1. a network of radar stations established at the boundary of a defended region to provide advanced warning of an aircraft or missile attack.
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An early warning system is a warning system that can be implemented as a chain of information communication systems and comprises sensors, event detection and decision subsystems for early identification of hazards.
Early Warnings for All (EW4All) is the UN's global initiative aimed at scaling up early warning and early action. Working together with the UN and partners, our aim is to ensure that everyone on earth is protected by early warning systems by 2027.
An integrated system of hazard monitoring, forecasting and prediction, disaster risk assessment, communication and preparedness activities systems and processes.
An early warning system is made up of four elements: disaster risk knowledge, detection, monitoring, analysis, and forecasting, warning dissemination and communication, and ; preparedness and response capabilities. All four elements are equally important for reducing the impacts of extreme events.
Of all risk reduction and climate change adaptation measures, early warning and early action stand as one of the best-proven and cost-effective methods for reducing disaster deaths and losses. Yet, as of 2022, only half of countries globally are protected by multi-hazard early warning systems.
Launched in 2022 by United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, Early Warnings for All is a groundbreaking initiative to ensure that everyone on Earth is protected from hazardous...
Early Warning Systems (EWS) are a proven cost-effective disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation measure which has been demonstrated to save lives, livelihoods and ecosystems in the face of climate-related hazards.
