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Role of NSOs in climate info for health:
producers and users perspective
Rifat Hossain
Lead
Global Information Management System
on Environment and Health
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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
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Diarrhoea: a leading cause of death
Others
16%
Measles
1%
HIV/AIDS
2%
Neonatal
42%
Injuries
3%
Malaria
8%
Diarrhoea
14%
Pneumonia
14%
 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?
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What is measured and what not?
All water sources
Good quality
Sufficient
quantity
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Improved sources
(measured)
Affordable
Climate
resilient
Piped/household connection
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Sustainable
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 improved
drinking-water source (urban + rural)
Is MSG under threat due to climate change…by how much?
Post-2015 work: www.wssinfo.org
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WQ monitoring…impact of CC?
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Going beyond MDG monitoring
Technology
Forecasts of water
and sanitation
coverage in 2020
Vulnerability
Adaptability
Literature review
Literature review
Interviews and questionnaire
Vulnerability fact sheets
Analysis of water supply and sanitation facility resilience
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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
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The Earth is a system of systems
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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
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UN system to coordinate climate services
User Interface Platform:
• Priority areas: agriculture, health, water and disasters
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Global risk assessment: GEO meets GFCS
Launched at WMO special congress:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/index_en.html
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Operationalizing environmental health:
Cholera Early Warning
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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)
(b) Water Resource Map:
Aquifer yield data from
multiple sources.
(b)
(c) Improved water source
location: Location of wells
continually updated with new
water projects via interactive
Web 2.0 application.
(d) LandScan Population
Database:
commercially
available 1-kilometer population
database updated yearly
(http://www.ornl.gov/sci/landscan
/landscan_data_avail.shtml).
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(c)
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.
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 .
(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
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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?
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THANK YOU
For further information:
Rifat HOSSAIN
Email: [email protected]
GFCS
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