Extreme weather conditions main topic of EUROSAI WGEA annual meeting

Supreme audit institutions (SAI) of Azerbaijan and Poland, the latter heading the EUROSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing (WGEA), hosted the working group's 22th annual meeting on 3 and 4 October in Baku, with the SAI Slovenia being among active participants. This year's meeting was dedicated to extreme weather events and preparedness strategies in case of meteorological and geophysical hazards, including thereto related activities of prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. During the event, several workshops were held, opening a discussion on how to manage risks and use data on droughts, forest fire, floods, mapping in case of emergency and exposure of the citizens.

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The meeting was attended by 72 representatives from 32 supreme audit institutions who shared their experience in auditing of managing extreme weather events, such as fire in the natural environment, floods and desertification. The participants of the WGEA meeting on behalf of the Court of Audit were Ms Tina Kristan and Mr Igor Vošnjak who gave a presentation on the audit on flood risk reduction.

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