Planning for Compound Hazards during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Climate Information Systems.

Keywords: Climate services; COVID-19; Disease; Health; Societal impacts; Vulnerability EN Climate services COVID-19 Disease Health Societal impacts Vulnerability E704 E709 6 04/11/22 20220301 NES 220301 Roundtable on Compound Hazards and COVID-19 I B What: b i An online panel with leading experts in compound hazard research, preparedness, and response, attended by over 80 online participants, met to discuss hazard response in the context of COVID-19. For example, forest fires are social and environmental hazards that present multiple risks to health and well-being, and they can also force people to migrate from rural to urban centers and vice versa during a COVID-19 outbreak, potentially increasing the spread of COVID-19 ([1]). The WMO Task Team on COVID-19 Meteorological and Air Quality Factors convened the "Roundtable on Compound Hazards and COVID-19" to hear from global experts on hazard response in the context of COVID-19. [Extracted from the article]