Five key priorities for winter preparedness – High-level meeting at the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection

A coordination gathering was convened by the Minister of Climate Change and Civil Protection, Yannis Kefalogiannis, with each applicable stakeholders for amended coordination of the mechanics and optimal mentation successful presumption of the wintertime period.

The Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, Yannis Kefalogiannis, said that “what is important is to spot intelligibly what issues make difficulties each twelvemonth successful the absorption of terrible upwind events, specified arsenic floods, snowfall and frost, truthful that we tin woody with them successful a timely and effectual manner.”

At the aforesaid time, helium spoke astir the 5 main axes that interest from mentation to the coordination of each stakeholders and the monitoring of the forecasts of the National Weather Service, which indispensable “identify the weaknesses and trim them successful time,” noting that “only successful this mode we tin marque decisions with azygous criteria and debar disorder to citizens oregon services.”

In the discourse of the meeting, which volition beryllium followed by others, issues of amended mentation of each institutions and effectual coordination of their efforts to woody with imaginable problems from terrible upwind phenomena from flooding, snowfall and frost were besides discussed.

The meeting, which was besides held via videoconference, was attended by the Deputy Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, Mr. Evangelos Turnas, the Deputy Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection liable for State Relief, Mr. Kostas Katsafados, the Secretary General of Civil Protection, Mr. Nikos Papaevstathiou, the Secretary General of Natural Disaster Rehabilitation & State Relief, Mr. Peter Kabouris, the Chief of the Fire Brigade, Lieutenant General Theodoros Vayas, the Deputy Chief of the Fire Brigade, Lieutenant General Georgios Markoulakis, the Chief of Staff of the Fire Brigade, Lieutenant General Athanasios Balafas, the Inspector General of Southern Greece, Lieutenant General Christos Platas, the Inspector General of Northern Greece, Lieutenant General Theodoros Kosmidis, the Commander of the Unified Coordinating Centre for Crisis Management (ESKEDIK), Major General Dimitrios Briolas, arsenic good arsenic high-ranking officials of the Fire Brigade.

The typical of the General Staff, Commander of the Construction and Natural Disaster Response Command, Lieutenant General Michael Kluvas, the Deputy Chief of the National Guard, Lieutenant General Paschalis Syritoudis, the Regional Governors of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Mr. Stavros Arnaoutakis, the President of KEDE Mr. Lazaros Kyrizoglou, the President of the Civil Protection Committee of KEDE Mr. Vlassis Siomos, representatives of the Regions of Attica, North Aegean, West Macedonia, Epirus, Thessaly, Ionian Islands, Central Macedonia, South Aegean, Peloponnese and Central Greece, the President and CEO of DEDDIE Mr. Mr. Anastasios Manos, President and CEO of EDMIE Mr. Yannis Maniatis, CEO of EYDAP Mr. Charalambos Sahinis, President of EDEFA Mr. George Marinakis, the General Manager of E.A.G.M.E. Mr. Dionysios Goutis, the Managing Director of New Road and Attiki Odos Mr. Rodiacos Antonakopoulos, the Managing Director of Olympia Odos Mr. Costas Papandreou, the Director of Operations and Maintenance of the Moraeus Road Mr. Alexandros Panagakos, the Operations Manager for Traffic Management of the Rio Bridge Mr. Theodoros Koutsogoulas, the typical of Egnatia Road Mr. Thanasis Tsaltsanoglou and the Managing Director of the Aegean Road Mr. Dimitris Mandalozis.

Theodoros Koutsogoulas, the typical of Egnatia Road, Mr. Thanasis Tsaltsanoglou and the Managing Director of the Aegean Roa,d Mr. Dimitris Mandalozis.

In item the connection of the Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, Yannis Kefalogiannis:

“Our intent is not to analyse the obvious. We each cognize what prevention means and however operational preparedness is organized. What is important is to spot intelligibly which issues make difficulties each twelvemonth successful the absorption of terrible upwind events, specified arsenic floods, snowfalls and frost, truthful that we tin woody with them successful a timely and effectual manner. Experience shows that the biggest challenges are recovered successful 5 cardinal areas:

The ambiguity of responsibilities betwixt regions and municipalities, particularly connected captious issues specified arsenic watercourse cleaning, attraction projects and snowfall removal, leads to delays and practically blocks the response. Coordinating Bodies beryllium precisely to forestall specified situations, arsenic agelong arsenic they are utilized promptly.

In the absorption of captious infrastructure, a wide representation and prioritization is required to support unfastened “lifelines” specified arsenic hospitals, wellness centers, airports, ports, and schools. These are issues that request to beryllium clarified earlier a crisis.

The request for a communal notation ground for upwind forecasts, with cosmopolitan adherence to authoritative forecasts and EMF Emergency Reports. Only successful this mode tin we marque decisions based connected azygous criteria and debar disorder for citizens oregon services.

On procedural delays. Every year, particularly during snowfalls, issues originate with delays successful machinery leases, brackish availability, and fleet maintenance. These are not issues of knowledge; they are issues of clip and procedure. When they are delayed, the operational concatenation breaks down successful practice.

Finally, determination is simply a request for unified coordination betwixt each stakeholders, from transport infrastructure to vigor networks, truthful that they bash not run successful a piecemeal manner but arsenic portion of a azygous plan. In large events, problems are not constricted to postulation oregon section damage. Electricity networks, transport, and nationalist transport are affected. TEN-T, ADMIE, OSE, motorway concessionaires – each indispensable beryllium portion of the planning, not run successful a piecemeal fashion. This is wherever gaps successful practice often occur.

These are the points that necessitate attraction and are the extremity of today’s discussion: to place the weaknesses and trim them successful time.