Bad omens Lekka forecasts for major natural disasters in Greece
The Minister of Climate Crisis and the professor of Natural Disaster Management spoke in a discussion about the risk of natural disasters.
“THE Civil Protection is a dead end without Local GovernmentSaid the Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Christos Stylianidis during the discussion on “Challenges for Civil Protection and disaster risk reduction in Western Greece”, held in the context of the 10th Regional Development Conference RGC 2022 in Patras.
From the side of the professor of Natural Disaster Management Efthymios Lekkas, made ominous predictions of greater natural disasters. In particular, he said that “we will have a larger scale of natural disasters, in a longer period of time, in larger areas, while there will be combinations of risks that require new approaches to business plans, new responsibilities in all three levels of administration, local government, district and central administration.”
“In order to be able to face these new difficult data, complex challenges and climate change policies, the Ministry of Climate Change and Civil Protection of Crete considers that a holistic approach based on the triangle of prevention, preparedness and resilience must be adopted.” Minister Christos Stylianidis, pointing out the need for cooperation and synergies with the Local Government (region and municipalities) that knows the specifics of the region.
The president and vice-president of PED Western Greece, Mayors of Kalavrita Thanassis Papadopoulos and Erymanthos Theodoros Baris pointed out the problems and shortcomings faced by local government in the field of Civil Protection, at the same time in many cases for the consequences of disasters.
Athanasios Karamoschos, special consultant in systems design in Local Government, pointed out that “PED could play a key role in Civil Protection”, while referring to the platform CiPro Effect, which he designed in 2015 on behalf of PED Western Greece, available local data on Civil Protection papers, data and other useful crisis management, stressed that it could be piloted to create matching platforms in all regions.
Finally, the Deputy Regional Governor of Western Greece, Fokion Zaimis, referred to the projects of the Region of Western Greece in terms of spreading the coasts, in torrents and rivers, while through the Interreg program, the Region of Western Greece proceeds with the supply of unmanned aircraft in deadly drones. fire and port authorities for civil protection and natural disasters.