Follow-up Activities Tabletop Drought
Start date and time:
End:
7 June 2025, 12:30
Location:
Room 2, International Conference Centre Geneva (+ Field Visit)
Organised by:
WSL Research Program Extremes, Swiss Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP, ETH Center for Security Studies CSS
Languages:
English
Type of event:
Presentations and colloquia
Audience:
Experts and practitioners in emergency planning, civil protection, disaster management
In the frame of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (2-6 June 2025, Geneva), the WSL Research Program Extremes, the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP, and the ETH Center for Security Studies CSS organize two activities to share learnings from the Tabletop Drought exercise, held in November 2024, at the international level.
1. Innovative approaches to enable drought preparedness and wildfire management in Switzerland (5 June 2025, 12:45-14:15)
This Learning lab will present three initiatives/tools/platforms that aim to enhance disaster preparedness for effective response. The Tabletop Drought exercise is one of the formats presented. Find out more.
2. Tabletop Drought: Exercise for Climate-Related Cascading Impacts (7 June 2025, 9:00-12:30)
This Practical Field Visit invites participants to plunge into the Tabletop exercise, tackling a multi-year drought scenario and its cascading effects in Switzerland. As part of the ‘serious game’ participants will get the chance to play the role of a cantonal emergency command and to respond to various climate-related hazards and manage their impacts. This exercise is used in Switzerland to train regional emergency command teams.