Bapon (SHM) Fakhruddin, PhD

Water and Climate Leader| Strategic Investment Partnerships and Co-Investments| Professor| EW4ALL| Board Member| Chair- CODATA TG| Award Winner (SDG 2021, EWS 2025)

Tech for Climate Adaptation: Harnessing Innovation to Manage Risk and Build Resilience

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The report, developed by the Tech for Climate Adaptation Working Group under the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, suggests that while technology cannot replace the need for GHG mitigation, it can help manage climate impacts and provide competitive advantages for early adopters. The document outlines how technology can assist in comprehending risks, building resilience, and responding dynamically to climate impacts through AI, Earth observation, IoT, and drones.

The 2024 Global Risks Report ranks extreme weather events as a top risk, with nearly half of the world’s population vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The report emphasizes that every sector of the global economy faces some degree of climate-related risk and underscores the importance of a comprehensive strategy for adaptation that leverages technology.

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Dr Fakhruddin is an expert climate change risk assessor with 18 years’ global experience in working on disaster risk and climate resilience projects. This experience is a major advantage in climate change adaptation and mitigation strategy development. His key areas of expertise are climate and multi-hazard risk assessment, disaster preparedness, early warning and emergency response and coastal community resilience. He has designed climate change and disaster response projects more than 25 countries in Asia and the Pacific. During his career, Dr Fakhruddin helped to design major international multi-hazard early warning systems for floods, cyclone and tsunami to save life and property damage. His most high profile work has been developing multi-hazard warning systems including a tsunami warning system for Indian Ocean countries following the deadliest one in history – the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Dr Fakhruddin is currently work as a mentor and supervisor for postgraduate study in disaster risk management in University of Auckland (UoA). He is a Science Committee Member of IRDR of ICSU/UNISDR, Co-Chair for the Disaster Loss DATA and Risk Interpretation and Applications (RIA) Working Group of IRDR of ICSU/UNISDR. He is also Co-Chair CODATA task group Linked Open Data for Global Disaster Risk Research (LODGD) and PSG member of the Coastal Inundation Forecasting Demonstration Project (CIFDP) and Open Panel of Commission for Hydrology Experts (OPACHE) of WMO. Recently Dr Fakhruddin appointed by the Government of New Zealand to develop national climate change risk assessment framework