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  🚨 Early warning systems (EWS) can save lives, protect livelihoods, and prevent billions in losses each year - but only if they work for everyone. Our key asks at #COP30: ➡️ EWS must be co-created with affected communities, not just inclusive of them. ➡️ Local and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (LITK) holds valuable insights into risks, resilience, and local adaptation. ➡️ Without formal policy recognition, resources, and integration into national and regional systems, LITK’s contributions remain ad hoc rather than systemic. ➡️ Meaningful integration of LITK into EWS design and operation is essential for building systems that are trusted, inclusive, and effective for all. 🔗 Read more about Start Network's advocacy for climate policy reform: https://startnetwork.org/learn-change/advocacy/climate-change

  🚨 Early warning systems (EWS) can save lives, protect livelihoods, and prevent billions in losses each year - but only if they work for everyone.
  
  Our key asks at #COP30:
  
  ➡️ EWS must be co-created with affected communities, not just inclusive of them.
  ➡️ Local and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (LITK) holds valuable insights into risks, resilience, and local adaptation.
  ➡️ Without formal policy recognition, resources, and integration into national and regional systems, LITK’s contributions remain ad hoc rather than systemic.
  ➡️ Meaningful integration of LITK into EWS design and operation is essential for building systems that are trusted, inclusive, and effective for all.
  
  🔗 Read more about Start Network's advocacy for climate policy reform: https://startnetwork.org/learn-change/advocacy/climate-change

  
  

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  🌏 As we approach #COP30, there’s a crucial opportunity to ensure that every person on Earth is protected by an effective early warning system. Our key asks: ➡️ Governments can raise ambition on adaptation by embedding stronger EWS commitments in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). ➡️ Integrating and tracking LITK within climate risk information systems under the Global Goal on Adaptation can ensure accountability and transparency. ➡️ National and local governments, regional bodies, and implementing agencies must recognise and resource LITK as a core component of early warning and climate adaptation efforts. Now is the time to bridge #science and lived experience — and build early warning systems that work for everyone, everywhere. Read more about our call to prioritise LITK: https://startnetwork.org/learn-change/news-and-blogs/open-letter-members-start-network-cop30-presidency-and-unfccc-parties

  🌏 As we approach #COP30, there’s a crucial opportunity to ensure that every person on Earth is protected by an effective early warning system.
  
  Our key asks:
  
  ➡️ Governments can raise ambition on adaptation by embedding stronger EWS commitments in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs).
  ➡️ Integrating and tracking LITK within climate risk information systems under the Global Goal on Adaptation can ensure accountability and transparency.
  ➡️ National and local governments, regional bodies, and implementing agencies must recognise and resource LITK as a core component of early warning and climate adaptation efforts.
  
  Now is the time to bridge #science and lived experience — and build early warning systems that work for everyone, everywhere.
  
  Read more about our call to prioritise LITK: https://startnetwork.org/learn-change/news-and-blogs/open-letter-members-start-network-cop30-presidency-and-unfccc-parties

  
  

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  Post 3 EWS Current State

  Every community deserves the chance to act before disaster strikes. But too many still face floods, storms, and droughts without timely warnings - a gap that costs lives, livelihoods, and progress. Investing in multi-hazard early warning systems (EWS) is one of the smartest, most equitable ways to build climate resilience. When communities are informed and prepared, disasters don’t have to become crises. Read more about Start Network's #COP30 campaign: https://startnetwork.org/learn-change/advocacy/climate-change

  Every community deserves the chance to act before disaster strikes.
  
  But too many still face floods, storms, and droughts without timely warnings - a gap that costs lives, livelihoods, and progress.
  
  Investing in multi-hazard early warning systems (EWS) is one of the smartest, most equitable ways to build climate resilience. When communities are informed and prepared, disasters don’t have to become crises.
  
  Read more about Start Network's #COP30 campaign: https://startnetwork.org/learn-change/advocacy/climate-change

  
  

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  Post 4 LITK Introduction

  “Earlier, we waited until the water reached our doorstep. Now we get informed before the river rises and know what to do.” Local, Indigenous, and Traditional Knowledge (LITK) is already helping communities like those in Assam anticipate and act before disasters strike. These locally led solutions show that effective early warning systems start from the ground up. As we look ahead to #COP30, governments and global actors have a chance to recognise and embed LITK within national adaptation and early warning frameworks, ensuring systems are not only scientific, but inclusive, trusted, and rooted in local realities. Read our open letter to UNFCCC parties: https://startnetwork.org/learn-change/news-and-blogs/open-letter-members-start-network-cop30-presidency-and-unfccc-parties

  “Earlier, we waited until the water reached our doorstep. Now we get informed before the river rises and know what to do.”
  
  Local, Indigenous, and Traditional Knowledge (LITK) is already helping communities like those in Assam anticipate and act before disasters strike. These locally led solutions show that effective early warning systems start from the ground up.
  
  As we look ahead to #COP30, governments and global actors have a chance to recognise and embed LITK within national adaptation and early warning frameworks, ensuring systems are not only scientific, but inclusive, trusted, and rooted in local realities.
  
  Read our open letter to UNFCCC parties: https://startnetwork.org/learn-change/news-and-blogs/open-letter-members-start-network-cop30-presidency-and-unfccc-parties

  
  

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  Post 5 EWS Challenges

  “Warnings without us don’t work for us.”   Communities like those in Majuli Island are already leading local early warning efforts — protecting their neighbours with systems they trust and own. But for early warning systems (EWS) to work for everyone, we must confront the barriers that keep communities on the margins.   At #COP30, governments and global partners can change this by:   ➡️ Recognising and resourcing community-led systems as part of national adaptation plans. ➡️ Embedding Local and Indigenous Knowledge (LITK) into policy and practice - not as an add-on, but as a foundation. ➡️ Building trust and accountability through genuine co-creation and local leadership.   Inclusive, locally led EWS aren’t just more effective - they’re essential for climate justice.

  “Warnings without us don’t work for us.”
   
  Communities like those in Majuli Island are already leading local early warning efforts — protecting their neighbours with systems they trust and own. But for early warning systems (EWS) to work for everyone, we must confront the barriers that keep communities on the margins.
   
  At #COP30, governments and global partners can change this by:
   
  ➡️ Recognising and resourcing community-led systems as part of national adaptation plans.
  ➡️ Embedding Local and Indigenous Knowledge (LITK) into policy and practice - not as an add-on, but as a foundation.
  ➡️ Building trust and accountability through genuine co-creation and local leadership.
   
  Inclusive, locally led EWS aren’t just more effective - they’re essential for climate justice.

  
  

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