Tracking Climate Security Impacts in the Sahel Region: Advancing on SDGs Indicators Monitoring, Reporting and Accounting

The SDGs-EYES webinar “Tracking Climate Security Impacts in the Sahel Region: Advancing on SDGs Indicators Monitoring, Reporting and Accounting” will provide an in-depth exploration of monitoring and forecasting tools to enhance citizen security. This webinar will showcase an innovative Earth Observation-based tool that delivers information on the number of affected buildings and communities due to disasters (e.g. floods) in the Sahel region, a climate security hotspot. The tool aims at supporting local and European policy-making processes in climate security and disaster resilience.

Participants will gain insights into the pilot‘s advanced tools and datasets, designed to enhance stakeholders’ understanding and response strategies with respect to disasters in fragile countries. 

The webinar will foster discussions on potential applications, align solutions with user needs, and encourage the adoption of the pilot’s outcomes to address real-world challenges.

Key Highlights:

• Advancing SDG13 – Climate Change: Explore the SDGs-EYES Climate Security pilot contribution to SDG 13 “Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts”.
• Directly supporting indicator 13.1.1: Understand how Earth Observation and ancillary data could support the  calculation of the indicator 13.1.1 “Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population (13.1.1)”.
• Explore the tool’s potential: Witness how the developed tool works, how it was built and its key capabilities.
• Contribute to refining the methodology: Provide helpful feedback on the developed methodology and contribute in shaping the way forward.

Preliminary Agenda: 

14:00 – 14:10: Welcome and Opening  

14:10 -14:30: Pilot presentation & Overview Demo Session

14:30 – 15:10: Moderated discussion between Pilot representative, speakers from other communities, audience

15:10 – 15:40: Break Out sessions

• Break out session 1: Hands-on technical demo of the pilot’s service to foster exploitation
• Break out session 2: End-user insights on advancing usability, uptake and policy

15:45 – 16:00: Future steps, conclusions of the webinar