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Agenda

Joint Expert Meeting on Disaster Loss Data

26-28 October 2016

EC-OECD and PLACARD - Joint Expert Meeting on Disaster Loss Data – 26th – 28th October 2016

European Commission (EC)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Platform for Climate Adaptation and Risk Reduction (PLACARD)

Joint Expert Meeting on Disaster Loss Data

Date: 26-27 October 2016 - 8th EU Loss Data Workshop Sessions

27-28 October 2016 – OECD Loss Data and Evaluation Workshop Sessions

Venue: OECD Headquarters, Château de La Muette, Paris

This meeting falls under the aegis of the OECD High Level Risk Forum. It is organised with joint co-operation between the OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, the European Commission with its Joint Research Centre, as well as with the Platform for Climate Adaptation and Risk reduction (PLACARD).

Wednesday 26 October 2016

Room D

14:00 - 14:20 Welcome and Introduction (DG ECHO, JRC, OECD and PLACARD)

Opening Remarks:

• Thomas de Lannoy, DG ECHO

• Tom De Groeve, Disaster Risk Management Unit, JRC

• Stéphane Jacobzone, Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, OECD

• Mario Pulquerio, PLACARD

14:20 – 15:40 SESSION 1: Disaster Loss Data for the Paris Agreement (Chaired by PLACARD)

Losses are addressed by the Paris agreement to improve the evidence-based assessment of the climate impact. The Sendai Framework 2015-2030 is leading the development of indicators on loss data. This session

aims to identify benefits from recording and sharing loss data in a common way. It will start with a set of methodological presentations followed by a round of questions and answers.

Speakers:

Maddalena Dali, DG CLIMA: Role of data in Climate Change Adaptation

Blaz Kurnik, EEA: Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction – synergies for the knowledge base and policies

Luc Feyen, DG JRC (VC): Future losses to Critical Infrastructures due to Climate Change

Jaroslav Mysiak, PLACARD Project: Risk assessment across DRR and CCA communities:

opportunities and gaps

Q&A

Coffee Break


16:00 – 18:00 SESSION 2: Disaster Loss data for the Sendai Framework: status in the EU (Chaired by DG ECHO)

The 3rd and final negotiation of the OIEWG on Indicators and Terminology for Disaster Risk Reduction relating to Sendai Framework 2015-2030 will be held on 15-16th November 2016. This session contributes to the EU position at OIEWG based on evidence.

Julio Serje, UNISDR/ Thomas de Lannoy, DG ECHO: Targets and Indicators for Sendai:

update from OIEWG

Chiara Proietti, JRC: Results of EU Loss Data Challenge: How ready are EU countries for Sendai?

Interactive session in break-out groups (All)

Report-back session (All)

Round table: feedback on new initiatives and progress related to Loss Data (All)

Cocktail Reception

Thursday 27 October 2016

Room CC 5

08:45 – 09:00 Welcome Coffee

9:00 – 12:30 SESSION 3: Towards the National implementation of the Sendai Indicators (Chaired by DG JRC)

The National implementation of the Sendai Indicators will have implications on existing national loss databases. The session is aimed to discuss how countries plan to implement National Loss Databases that comply with global Sendai Indicators, but also with other national requirements.

Speakers:

Results from DRMKC Support System:

‒ Italy (Veronica Casartelli, DPC and Roberto Rudari, CIMA Foundation)

‒ Spain (Rosa Mata Francès, CP Catalunya and Scira Menoni, POLIMI)

Annegret Thieken, University of Potsdam: Assessing economic losses at national level: preliminary results from UNISDR approach

Georgios Giannopoulos, DG JRC (via VC): Collecting losses to critical infrastructures at national level: how ready are EU countries for Sendai?

National’s view on evidence-based assessment of the Sendai Indicators:

‒ Sweden (Janet Edwards, MSB)

‒ Czech Republic (Jiri Musilek, Civil Emergency Preparedness Department)

‒ Norway (Mia Ebeltoft, Finance Norway)

‒ France (Elsa Rothschild, CCR)

‒ Italy (Veronica Casartelli, DPC)

‒ Finland (Tuuli Tulonen, TUKES) (VC)

Questions for discussion:

How National loss databases can support the implementation of Sendai Indicators at Global and National scale?

How targeted collaboration between Scientific Experts and Public Authorities can improve the implementation of loss databases, according to the Sendai Framework?

Which are the benefits from an effective national implementation of the Sendai Indicators in terms of loss accounting, risk modelling, loss compensation and disaster forensic?

What is the roadmap for the National implementation of Sendai Indicators?

Lunch


14:00-15:55 SESSION 4: Identifying good practices in establishing national disaster loss databases (Chaired by OECD)

National disaster loss data repositories have been established in some OECD countries. Data contained in national repositories do not always reflect a consistent application of methods to calculate social and economic losses from disasters. This session features national good practices and provides insights into the motivation and the success of those countries in establishing their data repositories. The OECD will provide a brief overview of the OECD survey results.

Opening Remarks:

Luiz de Mello, Deputy Director, Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, OECD

Speakers:

Cathérine Gamper, Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, OECD

Matthew Godsoe and C. Cody Anderson, Emergency Management and Programs Branch, Public Safety Canada (VC)

José Luis Ornelas de Anda, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), Mexico and Jonathan Joshua Venancio Serrano, Ministry of the Interior, Mexico

Muhammet Maruf Yaman, Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) and Zeynep Yilmazturk, Finance Ministry, Turkey

Moderator: Roland Nussbaum, Mission Risques Naturels, France


What are the success factors behind good country practices in establishing national disaster loss data repositories?

What are the lessons learnt that could inform other countries’ that are in the process of strengthening their national disaster loss data repositories?

What are the prerequisites and challenges for countries to develop such repositories in a cost effective way?

Coffee break

16:15 – 18:00 SESSION 5: Promoting the use of ex-ante disaster loss evaluations in policy design and implementation (Chaired by OECD)

Disaster loss assessments can be carried out systematically ex post or ex ante of a disaster event. Ex ante loss estimations can be used to calculate the potential impact of a certain type and severity of a future

disaster on the affected population and economy and can help policy makers at large to understand future damage potential and allocate public resources towards the reduction of their impacts. Indeed such loss estimations are necessary to justify investments in risk reduction projects, comparing the estimated outcomes in the event of a disaster with or without a specific risk reduction investment. Ex ante loss estimations can thereby help policy makers to assess the avoided costs obtained through specific risk reduction projects (e.g. the construction of a protective infrastructure). This session will help identify the use of such methods in country risk management practices, whether for policy design or implementation.

Speakers:

Prof. Adam Rose, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, USA (VC)

Mark de Bel, Deltares, Netherlands

Stéphane Hallegatte, The World Bank (VC)

Prof. Annegret Thieken, University of Potsdam, Germany

Moderator: Richard Smith-Bingham, Marsh & McLennan Companies


How can ex ante evaluations usefully complement the recording of past economic losses?

What are the conditions where ex ante evaluations could best be mobilised?

How can ex ante loss evaluations at the macro level complement standard micro level, project-based cost benefit analysis practices?

Reference Documents:

Improving the Evidence Base on the Cost of Disasters, Towards a Framework for Accounting for Ex Ante and Ex Post Losses and for Assessing Risk Management Expenditures [GOV/PGC/HLRF(2016)5]

Improving the Evidence Base on the Costs of Disasters, Key Findings from an OECD Survey [GOV/PGC/HLRF(2016)6]

COCKTAIL RECEPTION


Friday 28 October 2016

Room CC20

09:00 – 09:30 Welcome Coffee

09:30 – 11:30 SESSION 6: Addressing the challenges of economic loss accounting (Chaired by OECD)

Collecting information for and calculating the amount of economic losses after a disaster is a complex task. Standardised methods are rarely applied across OECD countries and hence data are difficult to compare across countries. Approaches differ even within countries, where different actors may take different approaches. Different cost categories exist that need to be evaluated using different methods, thus resulting in a very complex and challenging task. In many cases it is not clear whether the reported estimates include direct losses, business interruption or indirect costs, or whether all of them are included. In the cases where data on economic losses is consistently reported, it is often related to insured losses because they are consistently reported by insurance providers. This session will introduce a short overview of the OECD survey results highlighting the key challenges before giving the floor to speakers and opening the discussion.

Speakers:

Julio Serje, UNISDR

Tomoyuki Okada, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan (VC) and

Masato Okabe, Japan Institute of Country-ology and Engineering (JICE), Japan

Roland Nussbaum, Mission Risques Naturels, France and Elsa Rothschild, National

Observatory for Natural Risks - Caisse Centrale de Réassurance, France

Dr. Jan Eichner, Munich Re., Germany

Moderator: Zsuzsanna Lonti, Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, OECD


What are the challenges in establishing and applying consistent economic loss accounting methods?

Which strategies can be envisaged to make progress on the goals set forward by the Sendai framework and the SDG targets with regard to identifying and reducing economic losses from disasters?

What can we learn from countries that collect economic loss information consistently? What approach should be recommended going forward?

11:30 – 11:45 CLOSING SESSION: Next Steps

Closing Remarks:

Laura Schmidt, DG ECHO

Tom De Groeve, Disaster Risk Management Unit, JRC

Stéphane Jacobzone, Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, OECD

Mario Pulquerio, PLACARD

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