The United Nations and its relevant designated bodies must initiate and support a comprehensive programme for establishing an integrated, technology-enabled global climate and multi-hazard risk governance and management system. The program should move beyond policy advocacy and fragmented projects toward new climate risk intelligence gathering infrastructure development, system installation, networking, data and information maneuverability, coordinated operationalization, capacity development, and long-term maintenance of essential risk-management systems at global, regional, national, and local levels. United Nations must establish a global data center and information hub to integrate all UN-led climate action platforms with a data center for integrated and inclusive climate action decision-making. Working at the request of Member States and in partnership with existing UN agencies, national governments, regional organizations, scientific institutions, space agencies, universities, technology companies, telecommunications operators, civil society, and communities, the United Nations should help countries convert climate and disaster-risk policies into functional operational systems.
The programme should link: Earth observation and ground-based monitoring; climate and multi-hazard risk intelligence; artificial intelligence and geospatial technologies; forecasting and early warning; incident command and emergency telecommunications; anticipatory action and emergency response; disaster-impact and loss-and-damage assessment; education, research, and professional development; community reporting and risk communication; climate finance and investment planning; and monitoring, accountability, and institutional learning.
It is proposed that the United Nations lead and implement the following strategic agenda:
1) The UN should establish a Global Climate and Multi-Hazard Risk Intelligence Data Centre
The United Nations should facilitate the establishment of a Global Climate and Multi-Hazard Risk Intelligence Data Center as the central technical backbone of an internationally connected climate-risk governance system. The centre should collect, integrate, analyse, interpret, and disseminate climate, hazard, exposure, vulnerability, impact, capacity, and loss-and-damage information required for global, regional, national, and local decision-making. The centre should not duplicate the specialized functions of existing meteorological, hydrological, geological, oceanographic, space, environmental, humanitarian, or disaster-management institutions. Instead, it should connect their datasets, platforms, models, technical services, and analytical capabilities through common standards and interoperable digital infrastructure.
The United Nations should facilitate a Global Climate and Multi-Hazard Risk Intelligence Data Center that connects existing international, regional, and national data systems. The centre should integrate: meteorological, hydrological, oceanographic, geological, and environmental observations; satellite and Earth-observation data; weather forecasts and climate projections; hazard, exposure, vulnerability, capacity, and impact data; population, health, poverty, livelihood, and displacement information; infrastructure, utility, and essential-service data; ecosystem and biodiversity information; historical disaster-loss records; post-disaster needs assessments; loss-and-damage information; community observations and Indigenous and local knowledge; and climate-finance commitments, expenditures, and results. The centre should not replace specialized data systems operated by existing organizations. It should establish interoperability standards, shared classifications, metadata protocols, quality-control procedures, secure data-exchange mechanisms, and accessible analytical services. It should produce global and regional risk dashboards, scenario models, seasonal risk outlooks, impact forecasts, and decision-support products for governments, humanitarian organizations, development institutions, businesses, and communities.
2) The UN should support a Global Space and Earth-Observation Partnership
Rather than creating a competing standalone space agency, the United Nations should convene a Global Space and Earth-Observation Partnership involving national space agencies, satellite operators, research institutions, universities, telecommunications companies, and relevant UN entities. The partnership should support the development and application of next-generation satellite capabilities for: high-resolution weather and climate monitoring; rapid observation of cyclones, floods, wildfires, droughts, andslides, volcanic activity, and coastal hazards; atmospheric temperature, humidity, wind, rainfall, and greenhouse-gas measurement; soil-moisture, vegetation, snow, glacier, and water-resource monitoring; ocean temperature, wave, current, sea-level, and storm-surge monitoring; emergency telecommunications; satellite-based positioning and navigation; disaster damage mapping; search-and-rescue support; and continuity of communications where terrestrial systems have failed. Instead of relying on undefined “fourth-, fifth-, or sixth-generation” labels, the programme should establish capability-based requirements addressing resolution, revisit frequency, latency, reliability, interoperability, onboard processing, artificial intelligence, and emergency communication functionality. Developing countries should receive equitable access to satellite data, processing facilities, analytical software, technical training, and high-performance computing.
3) The UN should establish a Global Consortium for Weather Satellites, GNSS and Global Mobile-System(GSM) Integration
The United Nations system should establish a Global Technical Consortium for Weather Satellites, Global Navigation Satellite Systems and Mobile Satellite Emergency System Integration. The Consortium would bring together UN organizations, national governments, meteorological and hydrological services, space agencies, satellite operators, mobile network operators, handset manufacturers, technology companies, search-and-rescue organizations, universities, research institutions, and humanitarian agencies. Its purpose would be to integrate weather and Earth-observation satellites, Global Navigation Satellite Systems NSS, terrestrial mobile networks, satellite communications, drones, environmental sensors, emergency applications, geospatial platforms and search-and-rescue technologies into a unified global capability for: Multi-hazard detection, monitoring and tracking; Precision weather forecasting and early warning; Location-based public alerting; Emergency connectivity when terrestrial networks fail; Search, rescue and evacuation; Incident and response coordination; Rapid post-disaster mapping; Post-Disaster Needs Assessment DNA; Disaster Loss and Damage assessment; Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment CRVA; Tracking land degradation, land cover and land use changes, sea level raise, deforestation and forecast degradation, surface waterbody management and tracking multi-hazard.
Humanitarian logistics; Recovery and reconstruction planning; and Protection of isolated, marginalized, and hard-to-reach populations. The Consortium should complement existing international institutions and technical systems, not replace their mandates. It should provide common standards, a research platform, operational protocols, and an interoperable digital architecture to connect currently fragmented technologies.
4) The UN should establish a Global Technical Consortium for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Disaster Search-and-Rescue Technologies, and Emergency Robotics Research and Development at the country level).
The United Nations should establish a Global Technical Consortium to coordinate global tech firms in developing and deploying robust Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems for Climate and Disaster Risk and emergency response Management. The consortium should support the development of: artificial intelligence for detecting atmospheric and surface-level anomalies; machine-learning systems for extreme-weather and hazard detection; automated analysis of satellite, radar, sensor, drone, and social-reporting data; impact-based forecasting and probabilistic risk modelling; wildfire, flood, landslide, drought, and coastal-risk detection; AI-assisted disaster-situation reporting; incident and resource-tracking platforms; rapid building and infrastructure damage assessment; automated estimation of affected populations; loss-and-damage data collection and verification; unmanned aerial vehicles for mapping and delivery; ground robots for collapsed-structure search and rescue; aquatic robots for flood and underwater inspection; autonomous environmental monitoring devices; and decision-support tools for emergency operations centres.
Human oversight must remain mandatory for decisions affecting evacuation, access to assistance, public safety, resource allocation, and individual rights. AI-generated risk information should be transparent, verifiable, explainable, and clearly distinguished from confirmed official information.
5) The UN should support member states in developing AI and ICT-Enabled Incident Command and Coordination System
The United Nations should develop a standardized, interoperable and nationally adaptable AI and ICT-enabled Incident Command, Coordination and Management System unified digital framework through which civilian authorities, emergency services, local governments, defence and security institutions, humanitarian organizations, health services, utility providers, telecommunications operators, volunteers and private-sector actors can coordinate their responsibilities before, during and after emergencies. Its institutional and operational architecture should clearly define mandates, command relationships, decision-making authority, reporting lines, information-sharing arrangements and accountability mechanisms across national, provincial, district, municipal and community levels. It should be configurable to each country’s legal framework, institutional structure, hazard profile, administrative system and emergency-management arrangements while maintaining internationally recognized principles of interoperability and information exchange.
Artificial intelligence should serve strictly as a decision-support capability, not as an autonomous command authority. Responsibility for operational decisions, public warnings, evacuations, resource deployment and security-related actions must remain with legally authorized human decision-makers. AI-generated analyses and recommendations should be transparent, traceable, explainable, validated against reliable data and accompanied by clearly communicated confidence and uncertainty levels.
The United Nations should develop a standardized but nationally adaptable, AI and ICT-enabled Incident Command, Coordination and Management System to help Member States activate, implement, monitor and document disaster-related standing orders, emergency protocols, contingency plans and standard operating procedures. The United Nations should support countries in designing interoperable systems that enable civilian authorities, emergency services, defence and security institutions, local governments, humanitarian organizations, health services, utility providers, telecommunications operators, volunteers and private-sector actors to operate through a unified emergency-management structure. The platform should clearly define institutional mandates, command relationships, decision-making authority, reporting lines, information-sharing protocols and accountability at national and subnational levels.
The system should provide:
A real-time Common Operating Picture; Standardized incident types, classifications and activation levels; Clearly defined command, coordination and reporting arrangements; Digitized standing orders, contingency plans and SOPs; Automated workflow activation, checklists, deadlines and escalation alerts; Real-time hazard, exposure, vulnerability and impact information; AI-assisted risk analysis, scenario development and decision support; Geospatial operational dashboards and incident mapping; Personnel, rescue-team, vehicle and equipment tracking; Task assignment, responsibility allocation and progress monitoring; Resource-request, approval and deployment workflows; Emergency logistics, procurement, warehouse and relief-supply management; Search-and-rescue coordination; Evacuation-route planning and transportation management; Shelter identification, capacity monitoring and registration; Hospital, ambulance and emergency-medical coordination; Critical-infrastructure and essential-service status monitoring; Public-warning and emergency-information management; Field reporting through mobile and offline applications; Rapid damage, Loss and Damage, and needs assessment; Interoperability among national, provincial, district and municipal EOCs; Secure information exchange with regional and international partners; Decision logs, audit trails and operational documentation; and After-action review, lessons learned and institutional improvement.
Artificial intelligence should function as a decision-support capability rather than an autonomous command authority. Operational decisions, public warnings, resource deployments and security-related actions must remain under legally authorized human leadership. AI-generated recommendations should be transparent, traceable, validated against reliable data and accompanied by confidence and uncertainty information.
The participation of defence and security institutions should remain under appropriate civilian authority and comply with national legislation, international humanitarian principles, human rights obligations and clearly defined rules governing command, data access and information security. The system should also incorporate robust cybersecurity, privacy protection, role-based access, data encryption, backup communications, offline functionality and complete auditability to ensure dependable operation during major emergencies.
The United Nations should support countries in designing interoperable, AI- and ICT-enabled Incident Command Systems that enable civilian authorities, emergency services, defence and security institutions, local governments, humanitarian organizations, utility providers, telecommunications operators, health services, volunteers, and private-sector actors to work through a unified emergency-management structure.
The system should provide: a common operating picture; clearly defined command and coordination arrangements; standardized incident classifications; real-time hazard and impact information; personnel, vehicle, equipment, and relief-supply tracking; task assignment and progress monitoring; geospatial operational dashboards; evacuation and shelter-management tools; hospital and emergency-medical coordination; logistics and warehouse management; search-and-rescue coordination; public-information management; damage and needs assessment; interoperability between national and local emergency operations centres; and after-action review and institutional learning.
The participation of defence institutions should remain under appropriate civilian authority and comply with national laws, humanitarian principles, human rights, and clearly defined information-security protocols.
6) The UN should support member states in developing modular, rapidly deployable emergency telecommunications systems to establish resilient risk-communication and operational connectivity in remote, isolated, and hard-to-reach areas.
The United Nations should support the development and pre-positioning of modular, rapidly deployable emergency telecommunications packages for catastrophic cyclones, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, wildfires, landslides, and compound emergencies. A modular package could include: satellite phones and satellite internet terminals; portable AM, FM, and shortwave radio transmitters; HF, VHF, and UHF radio systems; portable cellular base stations and cells-on-wheels; emergency Wi-Fi and mesh networks; drones or balloons carrying communication relays; solar-powered charging stations; portable generators and battery-storage systems; interoperable emergency frequencies; emergency call-centre equipment; deployable data servers; Common Alerting Protocol systems; and redundant communication links for emergency operations centres.
These systems should be stored in strategically selected locations, regularly tested, maintained, and activated through predefined standard operating procedures. Regional stockpiles should be available where national systems become overwhelmed.
7) Establish a Global Geospatial Multi-Hazard Risk Portal ( like Google Earth)
The United Nations should facilitate an interactive Global Geospatial Multi-Hazard Risk Portal with functionality comparable to widely used digital-Earth platforms, while focusing specifically on climate, disaster, vulnerability, exposure, and resilience information. Where reliable data exist, the portal should incorporate historical records covering approximately 70–100 years, while clearly documenting data gaps and uncertainty. It should provide: historical hazard footprints; disaster-event timelines; flood, cyclone, drought, wildfire, earthquake, landslide, tsunami, heatwave, and coastal-risk layers; climate trends and projected scenarios; exposed populations and settlements; critical infrastructure and essential services; agricultural, water, ecosystem, and livelihood information; vulnerability and coping-capacity indicators; evacuation routes, shelters, hospitals, and emergency facilities; historical impacts, losses, and damages; future risk scenarios; and downloadable data and analytical tools.
Different access levels may be required to protect personal information, critical infrastructure, national security, and sensitive community data. Public information should nevertheless remain accessible, understandable, and usable by schools, researchers, planners, businesses, civil society, and communities.
8) The UN should support developing a Global and Country-level Live Disaster Incident and Impact Portal
A Global Live Disaster Incident, Impact and Loss-and-Damage Portal should provide continuously updated information on major emergencies. It should display: incident location, type, severity, and status; observed and forecast hazard conditions; affected and at-risk areas; casualties, displacement, and affected populations; damage to housing and critical infrastructure; disruption of health, education, water, power, transport, and telecommunications; agricultural, livelihood, and ecosystem impacts; response activities and unmet needs; humanitarian-access constraints; provisional estimates of economic and non-economic loss and damage; and sources, verification status, confidence level, and time of update.
The portal must clearly distinguish between preliminary reports, modeled estimates, verified government figures, and independently validated assessments. This is essential to prevent misinformation and double-counting during fast-moving emergencies.
9)Establish a Global Commission for Climate-Risk Education and Academic Standards
Because education regulation remains primarily a national responsibility, the United Nations should establish a Global Commission for Climate-Risk Education, Qualifications and Academic Standards rather than a supranational university regulator.
In cooperation with national accreditation authorities, universities, professional associations, and technical institutions, the commission should: develop international competency frameworks; recommend minimum academic and training standards; support recognition of climate-risk qualifications; facilitate academic credit transfer and professional mobility; develop ethical standards for climate-risk professionals; review emerging technical skills and occupational requirements; promote quality assurance in climate and disaster education; support professional certification and continuing education; and maintain a global directory of recognized programmes and centres of excellence.
10) Establish an International Institute for Multi-Hazard and Disaster-Risk Education
An International Institute for Climate, Multi-Hazard and Disaster-Risk Education should offer specialized academic, professional, executive, and field-based training. Its programmes should cover: climate science and multi-hazard risk assessment; meteorology, hydrology, oceanography, and geospatial science; early warning and impact-based forecasting; emergency operations and incident command; humanitarian logistics and anticipatory action; resilient infrastructure and urban planning; climate finance and disaster-risk financing; loss-and-damage assessment; public health and climate-related disease risks; ecosystem-based adaptation; risk communication; humanitarian protection and inclusion; and artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.
The institute should operate through regional campuses, affiliated universities, online platforms, field laboratories, and professional-exchange programmes.
11) Establish Continental and Regional Risk-Management Mega Technology Hubs
Regional mega-technology hubs should give countries shared access to advanced systems that may be too expensive or technically demanding to establish independently. The hubs should provide: high-performance computing; numerical weather and climate modeling; hydrological, hydraulic, coastal, wildfire, and landslide modeling; satellite-data receiving and processing; artificial-intelligence laboratories; geospatial analysis and digital-twin development; drone and robotic-system testing; sensor calibration and equipment repair; cybersecurity and data-backup services; technology demonstrations and training; innovation and start-up incubation; and technical surge support during emergencies.
They should also promote regional manufacturing, assembly, maintenance, and adaptation of technologies to local environmental and operational conditions.
12) Establish National Climate-Risk Education, Research and Development Centres
Every country should be assisted in establishing or designating a National Climate-Risk Education, Learning, Innovation and Research Centre. Existing universities and technical institutions should be strengthened wherever possible. The centre should: conduct country-specific climate and multi-hazard research; translate global science into national and local applications; develop locally appropriate technologies and methodologies; maintain national research and knowledge repositories; evaluate climate and risk-reduction programmes; support government institutions with technical analysis; provide training to local governments and communities; document Indigenous and local knowledge; facilitate partnerships among universities, industries, and government; and support young researchers, women scientists, innovators, and entrepreneurs.
13) Integrate Climate-Risk Education throughout National Curricula
The United Nations should assist education ministries, national curriculum authorities, universities, and training institutions in integrating climate and multi-hazard risk education at: elementary level; secondary level; higher-secondary level; technical and vocational level; undergraduate level; graduate and postgraduate levels; doctoral and postdoctoral levels; and continuing professional-development level. Content should be age-appropriate, scientifically sound, locally relevant, action-oriented, and connected to the hazards, ecosystems, livelihoods, and social conditions of each country. Climate-risk learning should also be integrated into engineering, architecture, agriculture, medicine, economics, finance, law, public administration, education, journalism, information technology, social sciences, and development studies.
14) Establish every country-Level Climate-Action Hubs
Country-level Climate-Action and Climate-De-Risking Hubs should help governments convert policies and plans into coordinated investment and implementation programmes. Each hub should: maintain a national climate and multi-hazard risk picture; coordinate ministries, technical agencies, and local governments; review sectoral risks and institutional capacity; identify appropriate risk-reduction interventions; prioritize interventions according to urgency and expected benefits; develop implementation timelines and institutional responsibilities; prepare costed project pipelines; connect proposals with financing opportunities; monitor implementation and outcomes; and identify gaps requiring international assistance. The hub should strengthen, not replace, the authority of existing government institutions.
15) Establish National Online Climate-Learning and Knowledge Hubs
The United Nations should support every Member State in establishing an accessible, inclusive, and nationally owned online learning platform for climate change, environmental protection, disaster risk reduction, and emergency preparedness. The platform should serve students, teachers, volunteers, journalists, professionals, researchers, local government officials, community leaders, and the general public. The platform should provide: Age-appropriate climate and disaster-risk education; Teacher-training materials and instructional guidance; Live and recorded virtual classes; Localized hazard maps, risk profiles and case studies; Interactive simulations, exercises, quizzes and educational games; Volunteer preparedness and emergency-response training; Verified citizen-observation and incident-reporting tools; Household and community preparedness guidance; Professional development and certification courses; Open-access research, policy documents and technical resources; Materials adapted for persons with disabilities; Learning content in national and local languages; and Dedicated resources addressing the needs of vulnerable and hazard-exposed communities.
Schools, colleges, libraries and community centers could affiliate with the platform as supported climate-learning and distance-education centers. These institutions could provide facilitated sessions, internet access, shared digital devices, teacher support and locally relevant practical activities. Online education should complement, not replace, classroom teaching and community-based learning. The system must not exclude learners without reliable internet access, electricity or personal digital devices. Educational content should therefore also be distributed through radio, television, mobile phones, downloadable modules, memory cards, printed materials and offline learning packages.
The platform should incorporate low-bandwidth access, offline functionality, accessible formats and multiple dissemination channels to ensure that climate and disaster-risk knowledge reaches learners in remote, marginalized and hard-to-reach communities. Universities, scientific institutions, civil society organizations, media organizations, and private technology companies should be encouraged to contribute verified educational content while maintaining national quality assurance and accreditation standards.
16) Establish a National Citizen-Science and Community-Based Hazard Reporting Network
A structured citizen-science and trained-volunteer network should enable individuals and communities to contribute to environmental monitoring, social journalism, early warning, and disaster-situation reporting. Participants could report: rainfall and water levels; heat, drought, wildfire, and landslide indicators; coastal and river erosion; damage to infrastructure; disruption of essential services; localized disaster impacts; unmet humanitarian needs; and ecosystem and livelihood changes. Reports should be geotagged, time-stamped, moderated, and verified before being presented as official information. Contributors should receive training on safety, ethics, privacy, misinformation prevention, humanitarian protection, and responsible risk communication.
17) Establish Country-Level Risk-Communication Hubs
Country-level Risk-Communication Hubs should provide redundant, inclusive, multilingual, and round-the-clock public-warning and emergency-information services.
Each hub should be equipped with: terrestrial AM, FM, and shortwave radio capability; internet radio and live webcasting; television and online video broadcasting; podcasts and recorded public-information services; high-speed and backup internet connections; satellite communication; cell broadcast and location-based alerts; SMS, mobile applications, and social-media dissemination; Common Alerting Protocol technology; an emergency call centre; accessible services for persons with disabilities; rumor monitoring and misinformation management; a media coordination facility; and a command-and-control room linked to national and local emergency operations centres. Warnings should be delivered in clear language and include the expected hazard, affected location, timing, severity, likely impacts, and specific protective actions.
18) Establish a National Facility for the Design, Financing, Coordination, and Implementation of Sector-Specific Climate Action.
A dedicated technical facility should help sector ministries and departments identify, design, prioritize, finance, and implement appropriate climate-risk interventions. The facility should support agriculture, water, health, infrastructure, energy, transport, settlements, education, ecosystems, coastal resources, social protection, local government, and economic-development institutions.
Its services should include: sector risk and institutional-capacity assessments; identification and comparison of intervention options; feasibility and cost-benefit analysis; maladaptation and environmental-safeguard screening; preparation of technical designs, budgets implementation timelines; assignment of institutional responsibilities; procurement and technology-selection support; development of financing proposals; results frameworks and performance indicators; monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning; and scaling of interventions proven to be effective.
The Facility should provide integrated technical and project-preparation support to institutions responsible for: Agriculture, food security, livestock and fisheries; Water resources, sanitation and irrigation; Public health and nutrition; Infrastructure, housing and human settlements; Energy and telecommunications; Transport and logistics; Education and research; Forests, biodiversity and ecosystems; Coastal and marine resources; Social protection and humanitarian assistance; Local government and urban development; and Industry, trade, tourism and wider economic development. Its support should ensure that sectoral interventions are evidence-based, technically feasible, financially viable, environmentally sustainable, socially inclusive and aligned with national climate commitments, development priorities and disaster-risk-reduction strategies.
The entire system should be governed by: respect for national sovereignty and national ownership; clear division of responsibilities among institutions; avoidance of unnecessary institutional duplication; open and interoperable technical standards; equitable access to data, technology, finance, and education; protection of privacy, data sovereignty, and cybersecurity; transparency and independent verification; civilian oversight of emergency-management systems; gender equality, disability inclusion, and social protection; recognition of Indigenous and local knowledge; long-term operation and maintenance planning; environmental sustainability and responsible technology use; and accountability for measurable risk-reduction outcomes.
The success of this United Nations–led initiative should ultimately be measured not by the number of platforms created or technologies installed, but by whether risks are understood earlier, warnings reach people faster, institutions act more effectively, communities receive timely support, emergency services remain connected, losses and damage are accurately assessed, and lives, livelihoods, ecosystems, and development gains are protected.