INVESTING IN PREVENTION, PREPAREDNESS
Excessive climate occasions have gotten extra frequent as a consequence of local weather change. Each Europe and Southeast Asia face extra pure disasters similar to earthquakes and floods.
Lenarcic, who additionally marked the twentieth anniversary of the devastating tsunami that hit Indonesia in 2004 throughout his Jakarta go to, highlighted the pressing want for efficient local weather methods.
“We have to determine, as an illustration, the place the hazard lies with regard to the tropical typhoons (and) storms, the place there’s elevated hazard of devastating floods and landslides, and now we have to behave accordingly,” he added.
“An important lesson is that you simply can not sit and wait till the catastrophe strikes, as a result of then it might already be too late.”
He mentioned the partnership between the EU and ASEAN will concentrate on assembly rapid wants, whereas constructing long-term resilience towards future threats.
In the course of the interview, Lenarcic burdened the significance of investing extra in prevention and preparedness efforts.
“We can not solely concentrate on response, which means we can not solely act as soon as catastrophe already occurs, as a result of with this new depth and frequency of disasters, we’d quickly be overwhelmed if we solely concentrate on response,” he added.
