World Summit on Disaster Management (WSDM) 2025

Source: PIB

Subject: Miscellaneous

Context: At the World Summit on Disaster Management (WSDM) 2025 in Dehradun, Dr. Jitendra Singh announced major upgrades to Uttarakhand’s early-warning systems, including six weather radars, 33 observatories, and 142 AWS stations.

About World Summit on Disaster Management (WSDM) 2025:

• What it is? WSDM 2025 is a global platform on disaster resilience, bringing together scientists, policymakers, practitioners, and industry leaders to discuss future-ready strategies for disaster risk reduction in a changing climate.

• WSDM 2025 is a global platform on disaster resilience, bringing together scientists, policymakers, practitioners, and industry leaders to discuss future-ready strategies for disaster risk reduction in a changing climate.

• Held in: Dehradun, Uttarakhand

• Theme: “Strengthening International Cooperation for Building Resilient Communities.”

• To enhance global disaster collaboration, share scientific insights, strengthen early-warning infrastructure, and promote resilient development, especially in fragile ecosystems like the Himalayas.

• Key Features:

• Announcement of expanded radar networks, early-warning systems, and Himalayan climate studies. Focus on hydrometeorological hazards, climate change impacts, glacier monitoring, landslide risk, and forest fire prediction. Emphasis on “Nowcast” systems providing 3-hour forecasts to vulnerable districts. Discussions on using agri-startups, CSIR value-addition models, and technological innovation for resilient Himalayan livelihoods.

• Announcement of expanded radar networks, early-warning systems, and Himalayan climate studies.

• Focus on hydrometeorological hazards, climate change impacts, glacier monitoring, landslide risk, and forest fire prediction.

• Emphasis on “Nowcast” systems providing 3-hour forecasts to vulnerable districts.

• Discussions on using agri-startups, CSIR value-addition models, and technological innovation for resilient Himalayan livelihoods.

• Significance:

• Reinforces India’s emergence as a regional hub for disaster science, forecasting, and climate resilience. Strengthens Uttarakhand’s capacity to manage cloudbursts, GLOFs, landslides, and flash floods. Helps align India’s climate adaptation efforts with global commitments like Net Zero 2070.

• Reinforces India’s emergence as a regional hub for disaster science, forecasting, and climate resilience.

• Strengthens Uttarakhand’s capacity to manage cloudbursts, GLOFs, landslides, and flash floods.

• Helps align India’s climate adaptation efforts with global commitments like Net Zero 2070.