Brochure UNESCO 2023 Strategia

 

Amato UNESCO COnsegna 2023

Lorito Denis Consegna 2023 

Yesterday in Paris ended the Steering Committee meeting of NEAMTWS (North East Atlantic, Mediterranean and connected seas Tsunami Warning System), the committee composed of the coordinators of the Tsunami Service Providers and the coordinators of the NEAM area Working Groups and Task Teams.

Among the main actions of the meeting was the presentation of the new document describing the NEAMTWS strategy for tsunami risk defense of the Euro-Mediterranean area until 2030.

The document was drafted by a specific NEAM Task Team, coordinated by Alessandro Amato (INGV, Italy) and Brian McConnell (GSI, Ireland) with input from tsunami warning centers in France, Turkey, Greece, and Portugal, and published these days after more than two years of work.

The NEAM strategy is based on three pillars:

  1. Tsunami hazard and risk assessment;
  2. Monitoring, tsunami warning and message dissemination;
  3. Awareness and response.

For each of the three pillars, a number of priority strategic goals have been identified to be pursued over the decade.

During the meeting, the NEAM area strategy document was handed over by NEAM Secretary Denis Chang-Seng to IOC-UNESCO (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission) Executive Director Vladimir Ryabinin.

Then, Alessandro Amato, coordinator of the working group that oversaw the drafting of the strategy document and head of INGV's Tsunami Warning Center (CAT), described the text's contents to the Italian scientific officer at UNESCO, Prof. Maria Vittoria Cubellis. Finally, Secretary NEAM Chang-Seng symbolically handed the Strategy brochure to Stefano Lorito of CAT-INGV, who took the role of Task Team coordinator together with the head of the Greek Tsunami Warning Center, Nikos Kalligeris.

Lorito and Kalligeris are working on the next document, the new NEAM Alert Center Operational User Guide, which will replace the previous 2011 version.