 The focus group on AI for natural disaster management is an ITU initiative that was established in December 2020 in partnership with two other UN organizations, the World Meteorological Organization and the UN environment. We're an interdisciplinary multi-stakeholder and international community which is exploring the potential and limitations of using AI to improve our understanding of natural hazards, so things like tsunamis or earthquakes. The ability to detect events in real time, our ability to forecast events, and our ability to effectively communicate an impending or ongoing disaster. Using real-life use cases, we're producing technical reports on best practices when it comes to data collection and handling, detraining, testing and implementation of AI-based models, and the integration of AI-based models in emergency communications and tools. It's our hope that these technical reports will form the basis for internationally recognized standards. Furthermore, in the form of complementary educational materials, we will make the content of these technical reports accessible to anyone who can benefit from their content and will be contributing to capacity building. The importance of the World Meteorological Organization to be involved in the focus group on artificial intelligence for natural disaster management is because of different reasons. The first one, because it supports global efforts to improve our understanding and modeling of natural hazards and disasters. The second point is because it pays attention to the needs of vulnerable and resource-constrained regions which are most impacted by natural hazards. The third point is because it distills emerging best practices to develop a roadmap for international action in artificial intelligence for natural hazards management as well in support disaster risk reduction. And the last point is because it is of international and interdisciplinary nature to help countries worldwide to improve communication of risks. The United Nations Environment Program is active in the field of disaster risk reduction. The focus group work on the use of artificial intelligence in natural disaster management. Increasingly, technologies such as artificial intelligence is playing an increasing role in disaster risk reduction as well. At the same time, UNEP is going through a time of digital transformation. So our environment in the focus group achieve our objective to introduce new technologies into disaster risk reduction as well as align with corporate priorities of digital transformation. The focus group on AI for natural disaster management is open to anyone who is willing to contribute. Please visit our homepage to create a free ITU account, to join our mailing list and to register for upcoming workshops and meetings. Hope to see you there.