Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction and Early Warning Services (SC-DRR)

Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction and Early Warning Services (SC-DRR) was established by the decision of the third session of the Commission for Weather, Climate, Water and Related Environmental Services and Applications (SERCOM-3) in 2024 for the second inter-sessional period (2024 - 2027), with the terms of reference. The SC-DRR is comprised of nine subsidiary bodies in the form of Expert Teams (ETs), Advisory Groups (AGs) and Task Team (TT). Details on the nature, composition, activities and deliverables of the SC-DRR ETs are available.

The SC-DRR Chair and Vice-chairs were selected from the WMO Expert Network by the President of the Commission.
Chair: Dr Osvaldo Moraes (Brazil)
Vice-Chairs: Dr Jane Rovins (New Zealand) and Lucy Mtilatila (Malawi)

SC-DRR meetings (SERCOM-3)

Kick-off Meeting of the Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction and Early Warning Services (SC-DRR-1) (10 December, 2024), Online
2nd Meeting of the Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction and Early Warning Services (SC-DRR-2) (29 April, 2025), Online

Related Activities

Public Weather Services Programme
Disaster Risk Reduction Programme
Tropical Cyclone Programme
Severe Weather Forecasting Programme

Subsidiary bodies

Below you will find all documents related to the subsidiary bodies under the SC-DRR:

Expert Teams

ET-CHE: Expert Team on Cataloguing Weather, Water, Climate, Environmental and Space Weather Hazardous Events

Lead: Paul Andrew Davies (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and Co-lead: Dr Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan (Indonesia) (*To be updated)

Meetings:

First meeting of the Expert Team on Cataloguing Weather, Water, Climate, Environmental and Space Weather Hazardous Events (ET-CHE-1)
Second meeting of the Expert Team on Cataloguing Weather, Water, Climate, Environmental and Space Weather Hazardous Events (ET-CHE-2)
- Meeting report
Third meeting of the Expert Team on Cataloguing Weather, Water, Climate, Environmental and Space Weather Hazardous Events (ET-CHE-3)
- Meeting report

ET-EWS: Expert Team on Early Warning Services

Co-Chair: Mr Fred Branski (USA/NOAA) and Co-chair: Mr Florian Teichert (Germany/DWD) (*To be updated)

Meetings:

ET-WSG: Expert Team on Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Service Delivery Technical Guidance

Chair: Ms Carolina Cerrudo
Vice-chairs: Dr Will Lang and Mr Hon-Yin (Linus) Yeung

Meetings:

1st In-person Meeting Drafting Team on Early Warning Services Technical Regulations (EWS-TR)

ET-URB: Expert Team on Integrated Urban Services

Co-chairs: (*To be updated)

Meetings:

To be added

Advisory Groups

AG-WCM: Advisory Group on the WMO Coordination Mechanism to support humanitarian activities of the United Nations and other organizations

Leads: Dr Marzia Santini (European Commission/Joint Research Center), Ms Isabelle Bey (Switzerland) and Ms Anni Arumsari Fitriany (Indonesia)

AG-WCM Meetings:

AG-SWF: Advisory Group on Severe Weather Forecasting

Chair: Dr Kantamla Mafuru (United Republic of Tanzania/ RSMC SWF Dar es Salaam)

Vice-chair: Ms Monica Sharma (India)

Meetings:

AG-TC: Advisory Group on Tropical Cyclones

Chair: Dr Michael Brennan (United States of America)
Meetings: AG-TC meets twice a year since 2022. Terms of reference, membership, documents and final reports are available on this webpage; Advisory Group on Tropical Cyclones (AG-TC)