Scaling Early Warnings for All, by all: Advisory Panel calls for accelerated action
News was produced by: UNDRR, WMO, ITU, IFRC
Geneva, Switzerland, 17 October 2025 -- The Advisory Panel of the Early Warnings for All (EW4All) initiative has issued a Joint Statement calling for accelerated, coordinated action to ensure that everyone on Earth is protected by lifesaving multi-hazard early warning systems. Endorsed at the Panel's fifth meeting, the Statement sets out priority actions to strengthen implementation, secure sustainability beyond 2027, and inform global policy and financing discussions in the lead-up to COP30 in Belém.
Closing the Early Warning Gap Launched by the UN Secretary-General in 2022, EW4All is a global push to close early warning gaps and reduce escalating climate and disaster risks. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) are leading the four Pillars of the Early Warnings for All (EW4All) initiative. Since 2022, the initiative has been driving partnerships across governments, international organizations, civil society, the private sector, and scientific institutions to ensure every person on Earth is protected by multi-hazard early warning systems.
With climate- and hazard-related risks rising, multi-hazard early warning systems are among the most effective ways to reduce disaster impacts. Yet significant gaps remain, leaving millions unprotected. The Joint Statement calls for urgent, coordinated action to close these gaps and build a safer, more resilient future.
Four priorities to accelerate Early Warnings for All
The Advisory Panel reaffirmed its shared commitment to scale and sustain early warning systems, which are proven, cost-effective tools that save lives and livelihoods. They outlined four key priority areas for action:
- Advance Data-Driven, User‑Tailored, People‑Centred Early Warning Systems: Regional, national and local authorities should co-design multi-hazard early warning systems with communities through participatory approaches that reflect the needs, priorities and capacities of end users, ensuring that warnings are understood, trusted and acted upon.
- Reinvigorate Multilateralism and Partnerships: Member States, international and regional organizations, and non-state actors should strengthen coordination across borders and sectors, building long-term partnerships that reinforce national and local capacities and enable the sustained exchange of knowledge, expertise and technologies to deliver Early Warnings for All, by All.
- Scale and Sustain Financing: Financing should be sustained, catalytic, country-led and needs-based, and fully integrated into national development and resilience planning. It should draw on diverse sources, be guided by cost-benefit analyses, incentivize increased domestic investment, and include targeted funding for anticipatory action.
- Harness Technology, Innovation and the Private Sector: Technology and innovation should be scaled up to deliver timely, reliable and accessible early warnings, with public-private collaboration playing a central role in ensuring alerts reach everyone, everywhere. Efforts should focus on mobilizing innovation ecosystems and new digital tools - from mobile-enabled services to artificial intelligence - to strengthen the reach, efficiency and inclusiveness of multi-hazard early warning systems.
Alongside these shared priorities, many members of the Advisory Panel have also put forward individual commitments on behalf of their organizations, ranging from financing and technical support to implementation, advocacy and governance. These commitments reinforce the shared priorities outlined in the Joint Statement and demonstrate a collective determination to translate them into concrete action.
Driving momentum to COP30 and beyond
The Joint Statement will serve as a key reference point for policy and financing discussions on early warning systems in the months ahead. It also reinforces the Advisory Panel's collective commitment to champion EW4All across global and regional forums, sustain political will, and mobilize resources.
With COP30 approaching, EW4All will feature prominently as part of the global adaptation agenda. By scaling inclusive, people-centred early warning systems and embedding them in national development strategies, the initiative aims to reduce disaster risks, protect lives and livelihoods, and strengthen resilience.