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Role of NSOs in climate info for health: producers and users perspective

Role of NSOs in climate info for health: producers and users perspective. Rifat Hossain Lead Global Information Management System on Environment and Health. Reflections. Concerns and challenges What's measured and what's not MDG and beyond GEO/GEOSS and GFCS Using CC info in health

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Role of NSOs in climate info for health: producers and users perspective

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  1. Role of NSOs in climate info for health: producers and users perspective Rifat Hossain Lead Global Information Management System on Environment and Health

  2. Reflections • Concerns and challenges • What's measured and what's not • MDG and beyond • GEO/GEOSS and GFCS • Using CC info in health • Role of NSOs 2

  3. Diarrhoea: a leading cause of death • Nearly 800 million without potable water, billions without safe water • 2.5 without proper sanitation, 1.1 billion defecate in open • Worse under climate change scenarios, but how much?

  4. What is measured and what not? Improved sources (measured) All water sources Affordable Good quality Climate resilient Sufficient quantity Sustainable Piped/household connection

  5. MDG target + Indicators MDG 7 Target 7c: • Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation Indicator to monitor (proxy for access to safe drinking-water): • Proportion of the population that uses an improveddrinking-water source (urban + rural)‏ Is MSG under threat due to climate change…by how much? Post-2015 work: www.wssinfo.org

  6. WQ monitoring…impact of CC?

  7. Going beyond MDG monitoring Technology Vulnerability Adaptability Forecasts of water and sanitation coverage in 2020 Literature review Literature review Interviews and questionnaire Vulnerability fact sheets Analysis of water supply and sanitation facility resilience

  8. Water-Health sector: Climate knowledge gap • How much climate change affects MDG/access? • How much climate variability affects access? • How climate change/variability affect water quality/quantity? • Weak monitoring of water quality and related health outcomes • Can we handle/mitigate climate impacts? • What's the public health fallout of climate change? Many initiatives are on, but fragmentation and knowledge gap makes effective policy formulation difficult

  9. The Earth is a system of systems

  10. GEO/GEOSS, GFCS • GEO: Established 2005, Non-juridical, voluntary, flexible • 2002 WSSD, EO Summits, G8 • 88 Members (governments and EC), 64 Organizations • 2012 – 2015 Work Plan with 26 Tasks • Plenary, Committees, Secretariat, etc. • Sustaining GEOSS post-2015 • GFCS: Born out of 3rd World Climate Conference • UN system to coordinate climate services • User Interface Platform: • Priority areas: agriculture, health, water and disasters

  11. Global risk assessment: GEO meets GFCS Launched at WMO special congress: http://www.wmo.int/pages/index_en.html

  12. Operationalizing environmental health:Cholera Early Warning

  13. Combining Earth Observations data INPUT LAYERS:COMBINED OUTPUT LAYERS: (a) Digital Elevation Model (DEM): Worldwide coverage from NASA’s ASTER mission with 30-meter resolution. (a) Water accessibility: (combination of layers ‘a’ and ‘d’) Access measured in amount of energy per capita (calories) needed to collect water, highlighting access limitations due to terrain. Also shows populations living on marginal land without water access. (b) Water Resource Map: Aquifer yield data from multiple sources. (b) Water resources per person: (combination of layers ‘b’ and ‘d’) Determines whether underlying water resources (aquifer yield) can meet demand of overlying population based on 50 liters per person per day . (c) Improved water source location: Location of wells continually updated with new water projects via interactive Web 2.0 application. (c) (d) Areas with improved water access: (combination of layers ‘c’ and ‘d’) Displays 1-km LandScan areas that have achieved water access per guidelines, i.e. at least one access point per 1-sq.km (d) LandScan Population Database: commercially available 1-kilometer population database updated yearly (http://www.ornl.gov/sci/landscan/landscan_data_avail.shtml).

  14. Role of NSOs in health etc. • Sources of data • Satellite, in-situ, other data: role of NSOs? • Interoperability and dynamic linking? • Global Information Management System on Environment and Health (GIMS) • Use and sharing of data • Collaboration and buy-in by the governments • Role of NSOs in CC info for health: • Population statistics: but not sufficient • Overlaying for socio-economic impact: do NSOs have data of right resolution?

  15. THANK YOU For further information: Rifat HOSSAIN Email: hossainr@who.int GFCS

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