<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-js-content-title-text" class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><p class="gmail-h2" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><img class="gmail-alignnone gmail-size-large gmail-wp-image-3987" src="https://codata.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/VgYwQZuSO0IzespI0LMS1595455399-1024x318.png" alt="" width="855" height="265" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">When:</span> Tuesday, 11 Aug 2020, 1:00 PM (Auckland, Wellington), 1:00 AM (UTC)</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700">Register here:</span> <a href="https://event.webinarjam.com/register/8/8rkn0u7" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none">https://event.webinarjam.com/register/8/8rkn0u7</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Early warning systems are a major component in disaster risk reduction. Despite forecasting system advances, hydro-meteorological and geo-hazards continue to claim thousands of lives, while wreaking irreparable damage upon homes, businesses and critical infrastructure.</p></div><div id="gmail-js-content-description-text" class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Research advancements have rapidly improved data observation, modelling and the analysis of natural hazards forecasting for disaster risk reduction. Unfortunately, many of these advances have not been tailored to benefit communities at risk. Forecasts are only as good as the language and method used in communicating to affected communities.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700">Key issues to discuss:</span></p></div><div id="gmail-js-list-text-1" class="gmail-js-cloneable" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 23px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;list-style-position:initial;line-height:26px"><li class="gmail-info-list-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700">Policy and political issues – </span>How to ensure an end-to-end early warning system that covers both vertical and horizontal institutions to achieve risk-informed sustainable development</li><li class="gmail-info-list-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Ensemble based guidance – </b> Products and the use of ensemble-based guidance in day-to-day forecasting by meteorologists</li><li class="gmail-info-list-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:trans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