Global Wildfire Collective Expert Group Meeting- Identifying Resources and Gaps for Wildfire Resilience & Recovery in Latin America
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The Global Wildfire Collective convened its first expert group meeting (EGM), May 21-22 at Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia. Objectives of the EGM included determining current wildfire science data needs and resourcing gaps in the Latin America and Caribbean region, assessing and sharing existing efforts and advancing wildfire science and research and policy needs through an operational lens.
Participants in the event included representatives from firefighting agencies & associations, government ministries of environment, disaster risk and meteorology/hydrology, research institutions, non-governmental organizations, private sector representatives, local and Indigenous communities and multilateral development banks.