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)

SC-DRR meetings (SERCOM-3)

Kick-off Meeting of the Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction and Early Warning Services (SC-DRR-0) (10 December, 2024), Online

Archived SC-DRR meetings

7th Meeting of the Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction and Public Services (SC-DRR-7) (18-20 January 2024),Geneva
6th Meeting of the Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction and Public Services (SC-DRR-6) (13-14 September 2023), Online
4th Meeting of the Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction and Public Services (SC-DRR-4) (Geneva, 16-17 June 2022), Hybrid
3rd Meeting of the Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction and Public Services (SC-DRR-3) (24-26 January 2022), Online
2nd Meeting of the Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction and Public Services (SC-DRR-2) - Part II, (13-14 September 2021), Online
2nd Meeting of the Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction and Public Services (SC-DRR-2) (6 July 2021), Online
1st Meeting of the Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction and Public Services (SC-DRR-1) (7-8 January 2021), 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)

ET-WCM Meetings (Archive):

AG-WCM Meetings:

First meeting of the Advisory Group on the WMO Coordination Mechanism (AG-WCM-1)
Second meeting of the Advisory Group on the WMO Coordination Mechanism (AG-WCM-2)

AG-SWF: Advisory Group on Severe Weather Forecasting

Chair: Mr James Lunny (New Zealand/ RSMC SWF Wellington) and Vice-chair: Ms Monica Sharma (India/ RSMC New Delhi) (*To be updated)

Meetings:

AG-TC: Advisory Group on Tropical Cyclones

Chair: Dr Michael Brennan (United States of America) and Vice-chair: Mr Terry Atalifo (Fiji) (*To be updated)

Meetings:

First meeting of the Advisory Group on Tropical Cyclones (AG-TC-1) - 03 February 2022
Second meeting of the Advisory Group on Tropical Cyclones (AG-TC-2) - 7-9 June 2022
Third meeting of the Advisory Group on Tropical Cyclones (AG-TC-3) - 10 December 2022
Fourth meeting of the Advisory Group on Tropical Cyclones (AG-TC-4) - online, 16 - 17 May 2023

Task Team

TT-FIR: Task Team on Fire Weather Services

Co-chairs: (*To be updated)

Meetings:

To be added

TT-BCM: Task Team on Business Continuity Management

Leads: Ms Mookgo Mareletse (South Africa) and Mr Riris Adrianto (Indonesia)

Meetings:

The Ice-Breaking Meeting of the Task Team on Business Continuity Management - 11 September 2024
The First Online Meeting of the Task Team on Business Continuity Management - 13 November 2024
The Second Online Meeting of the Task Team on Business Continuity Management - 16 January 2025
The First In-Person Meeting of the Task Team on Business Continuity Management - 10-14 February 2025

Archive before SERCOM-3

ET-GSD: Expert Team on General Service Delivery

Lead: Dr William Jonathan Lang (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and Co-Lead: Ms Carolina Cerrudo (Argentina)

Meetings:

ET-MTG: Expert Team on MHEWS Technical Guidance

Lead: Mr Yeung, Hon-yin (Linus) (Hong Kong, China), Co-leads: Dr Jane Rovins (New Zealand) and Prof. Lei, Xiaotu (China)

Meetings:

ET-MIE: Expert Team on MHEWS Interoperable Environment

Lead: Mr Jean-Noel Degrace (France) and Co-lead: Mr Nadao Kohno (Japan)

Meetings:

ET-GMAS: Expert Team on the Global Multi-hazard Alert System Framework

Lead: Fredrick Branski (United States of America) and Co-lead: Mr Cheng, Yuen Chung Armstrong (Hong Kong, China)

Meetings: