Les services de l’Office de météorologie ont indiqué, dans un bulletin météo, que les rafales de vent vont se poursuivre, pour cette journée de lundi 1er novembre, dans plusieurs wilayas du nord du pays.
Dans la carte de vigilance publiée ce lundi, pas moins de 11 wilayas côtières sont placées en vigilance jaune (vents violents). Il s’agit de Alger, Tipasa, Béjaia, Tizi Ouzou, Chlef, Mostaganem, Ain Témouchent, Skikda, Jijel, Boumerdès et Oran.
La vitesse des rafales attendues est estimée à plus de 60 km/h. La validité du bulletin devra s’étaler, selon la même source, jusqu’à 18 h 00 de cette même journée.
Les rafales attendues provoqueront l’agitation de la mer dans l’ensemble des zones côtières du pays. La hauteur des vagues sera de 3 mètres, et ce, jusqu’à l’aube de demain mardi.
Il s’agit donc des côtes de Bejaia, Jijel, Azefoun, Déllys, Alger, Bouharoune, Ténés, Arzew, Béni Saf, Ghazaouat, Marsa Ben Mhidi, Skikda, Annaba et El Kala.
Les prévisions de ce lundi 1er novembrePour ce qui est des prévisions de ce lundi, météo Algérie a fait état d’un temps dégagé avec quelques nuages sans effet sur les régions de l’ouest du pays.
À l’est et au centre, le temps sera marqué par des passages nuageux pouvant entrainer quelques gouttes de pluie. Cette situation devra rejoindre le centre du pays durant la soirée de ce lundi.
Pour ce qui est des températures maximales prévues ce mercredi, l’on note entre 26 et 30 degrés sur les régions côtières, entre 23 et 30 degrés sur les régions intérieures et de 29 et 38 degrés sur les régions sahariennes.
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General Electric won a $1.6 billion deal including all options for the F-15EX Lots 2+ propulsion system procurement. This contract provides for 29 F110-GE-129 engines (installs and spares) for the F-15EX fleet. The contract also provides seven option lots for a most probable quantity of 329 total engines if all options are exercised. The F-15EX is a ready-now replacement for the F-15C that includes best-in-class payload, range and speed. Work will take place in Ohio and Texas. Estimated completion date is June 30, 2031.
Lockheed Martin won a $30.5 million modification, which exercises options to provide operation and maintenance support of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter development labs in support of testing developed configurations across the F-35 platform for the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and non-US Department of Defense (DOD) participants. Work will take place in Texas and is expected to be finished in March 2022.
Middle East & AfricaIsrael Aerospace Industries (IAI) has signed an agreement of cooperation with Romanian defense company IAR-Brasov on UAVs to offer advanced UAVs solutions, based on IAI’s Tactical Heron, in Romania. Based on the agreement the UAV systems will be manufactured in Brasov, Romania. Furthermore, IAI will establish in Romania an academy to train the system operators and technicians for the UAV systems, IAI said in a statement recently.
The first F-15QA Ababil combat aircraft for Qatar have departed Boeing’s Missouri production facility for the Gulf emirate. Five Qatari-variant Advanced Eagles left St Louis Lambert International Airport on October 27 on the first leg of their nearly 12,000 km journey to their future home operation station of Al Udeid Air Base.
EuropeThe Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (FMA) signed two contracts worth $170 million for the delivery of a new batch of Naval Strike Missiles (NSMs) and maintenance of existing inventory of these missiles. The new NSMs will be armed on the Navy’s frigates and corvettes. The existing inventory of missiles will go through a series of maintenance actions to extend their operational timeline and continue providing state of the art defence capabilities for the Navy, Kongsberg announced in a statement.
Asia-PacificBoeing said it delivered the first KC-46A tanker to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) marking the program’s first delivery to a customer outside the United States. The KC-46A has already completed more than 5,000 sorties and transferred more than 50 million pounds of fuel to other aircraft through its boom and drogue systems.
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Vang Ven-pin kínai külügyi szóvivő pénteki sajtótájékoztatóján hangsúlyozta: Kína nem tesz engedményeket az olyan, alapvető érdekeit érintő kérdésekben, mint az ország szuverenitása és területi egysége. Vang felszólította az amerikai felet, hogy megfontoltan járjon el, és ne küldjön helytelen jelzéseket a Tajvan függetlenségét propagáló aktivistáknak, ez ugyanis komoly károkat okozna a kínai-amerikai kapcsolatokban.
Biden a CNN hírtelevízió műsorában kérdésre válaszolva jelentette ki, hogy kínai támadás esetén az amerikai kormánynak kötelessége lenne megvédenie Tajvant. Az amerikai elnök másodszor tett olyan kijelentést, amely határozottabb kiállást sejtet Tajvan mellett. Augusztusban az ABC amerikai hírtelevízió híradójának nyilatkozott úgy, hogy az Egyesült Államok válaszolna egy kínai támadásra.
Az Egyesült Államok nem áll hivatalos diplomáciai kapcsolatban Tajvannal, de egy amerikai jogszabály előírja, hogy köteles támogatni a szigetet az önvédelemben. Ebből kifolyólag az Egyesült Államok a sziget legnagyobb fegyverszállítója.
A South China Morning Post című hongkongi lap internetes kiadása pénteki cikkében rámutatott: Biden kijelentése nyomán bizonytalanság alakult ki azzal kapcsolatban, hogy vajon az Egyesült Államok továbbra is tartja-e magát ahhoz a politikához, amely szándékosan nyitva hagyta a kérdést, hogy alkalmazna-e katonai akciót Tajvan védelmében. A lap szerint a stratégia lényege, hogy eltántorítsa Tajvant a teljes függetlenség kinyilatkoztatására tett, egyoldalú akciótól, egyúttal visszafogja Pekinget a sziget egyoldalú visszacsatolásától.
Nem sokkal Biden televíziós nyilatkozata után azonban a Fehér Ház egyik szóvivője elmondta: az amerikai vezetés Tajvan-politikája nem változott.
Kína saját területe részeként tekint az egyébként 1949 óta saját kormányzattal rendelkező Tajvanra. Peking és Tajpej között a viszony több éves közeledés után ismét fagyossá vált azt követően, hogy a Caj Jing-ven tajvani elnök vezette kormányzat elutasította azt az 1992-ben elfogadott, az “egy Kína” elvét magában foglaló egyezményt, amelyet Peking a tárgyalások alapfeltételeként kezel. A kínai kormányzat azóta diplomáciai eszközökkel igyekszik korlátozni Tajvan mozgásterét a nemzetközi színtéren, gazdasági nyomást alkalmaz Tajvannal szemben, és rendszeres hadgyakorlatokat tart a sziget közvetlen közelében.
Október első négy napján a kínai légierő összesen 149 harci gépe hatolt a tajvani légtérbe, naponta megdöntve az egyszerre a sziget légvédelmi zónájába repülő kínai harci gépek rekordját. Az akciók kezdete egybeesett a Kínai Népköztársaság 1949-es megalakulásának október 1-ére eső évfordulójával. Peking a feszültségek közelmúltbeli kiéleződését részben a tajvani politikusok külföldi erőkkel folytatott “összejátszásának” tulajdonította.
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Sun sets in Madinah, Saudi Arabia. Credit: WMO/Ali Alhawas
By Lany Harijanti
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Nov 1 2021 (IPS)
The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly caused the largest economic and societal shock the world has experienced this century. Yet it was not unforeseen.
As far back as 2006, the annual Global Risks Report from the World Economic Forum warned that a pandemic was an ‘acute threat’ across all industries globally. This year’s WEF report expands into new dimensions of risk, such as the consequences of digital inequality and cybersecurity failure.
Meanwhile, the 2021 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sounded a ‘code red for humanity’ – setting out in the starkest terms that the risks of inaction on climate change are now irrefutable.
What all of these risks have in common is that they threaten or disrupt not only economies but, more importantly, the wellbeing and sustainability of humanity and the planet. It’s logical, therefore, to conclude that they are challenges that demand global cooperation and societal cohesion to overcome.
Getting to grips with sustainability impacts
At the corporate-level, effective, pre-emptive, and dynamic enterprise risk management is more relevant than ever. That is why the role of risk manager is no longer confined to traditional financial risks and regulatory expectations but progressively is contributing more into how to support a sustainable business model.
The GRI Standards – the world’s most widely used and comprehensive sustainability reporting standards – enable organizations to assess and communicate their impacts, which is increasingly relevant from the perspective of risk management.
The revised Universal Standards – launched this month – re-emphasized the scope of impact needs to be inclusive of potential risk.
Credit: United Nations
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) describes sustainability risks as uncertain social or environmental conditions that could cause significant negative impacts on the company.
As the pandemic has proven, these risks can pose existential threats to companies. Or, as former US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice put it: “sustainability is a multiplier of risk”, exponentially increasing volatility and uncertainty.
What this means is that, to be successful over the long-term, businesses must not lose sight of their sustainability risks. Against this backdrop, a recent GRI webinar, Aligning Sustainability and Risk Management, explored the ways that the integration of sustainability was shaping the role of risk managers, increasingly their relevance to the organizational transformation process.
Here we share some of the insights from the session, which was the second in our Building Leadership for Sustainable Business Expert Series.
Incentivizing risk analysis
Constant Van Aerschot, Director of WBCSD Asia Pacific, pointed out that many companies tend to treat sustainability issues separately from risk issues.
A recent WBCSD report on integrating sustainability and enterprise risk revealed that companies recognize that the material topics in their sustainability reports have a financial impact – yet these same companies often fail to address ESG-related risks in their annual risk filings.
Priya Bellino, Ernst and Young’s ASEAN Head of Sustainability and ESG for Financial Services Consulting, emphasized the role of financial institutions in encouraging companies to manage sustainability risks. The example she shared was in the real estate sector.
Climate change and extreme weather events are exposing physical assets to a much higher risk, which affects the value of real estate portfolios. As a consequence, we are seeing more incentivization through green building financing and the adoption of green certifications.
To access new opportunities, companies need to measure and monitor “investment-grade sustainability performance”. That cannot be achieved without reliable and comparable disclosure – with Priya acknowledging that GRI reporting helps the company to deliver the required ESG data.
Yet – as Tony Rooke, Director of Climate Transition Risk at Willis Towers Watson, set out – determining the right ESG data points is a crucial step on the journey to understanding risks and achieving sustainable business outcomes.
Tony went on to share that, for companies to begin to understand their role in tackling global risks, such as climate change, the market needs to further develop or create a reward system for those who transition to zero carbon business models.
The future of risk management
According to the 2020 State of Risk Oversight report, from the Enterprise Risk Management Initiative, 54% of large organizations and 58% of public companies have appointed a Chief Risk Officer (CRO). With the growth of the role, we have also seen increases in scope – helping organizations identify, analyze and mitigate their risk exposure.
So, it is clear that many organizations are recognizing effective risk management as a key ingredient to the long-term wellbeing of the business.
Where the CRO evolution can and must deepen is in the correlation between enterprise risk and sustainability risk. Having a CRO that leads on sustainability is a good sign that a company is resolute in its sustainability commitment.
The CRO does not have to be a know-it-all; more important is that they have the competencies to lead and build a team, collaborate with external stakeholders such as investors and regulators, bringing the ESG and conventional risks strands together into a single, meaningful narrative.
As Ricardo Nicanor N. Jacinto, Trustee of the Institute of Corporate Directors Philippines, articulated, the CRO is fast becoming “both the risk culture custodian and champion”. That is increasingly significant as the challenges of COVID-19 underline that we live in a volatile, uncertain and complex world.
Therefore, whatever is up next on the risk forecast – be it this pandemic, the climate crisis or a yet to be defined new threat – having the expertise to assess the multiple and concurrent sustainability risks facing the business is more essential than ever before.
Lany Harijanti is the Regional Program Manager of the GRI ASEAN Hub. She has been with GRI since 2018 and has a remit to build the capacity of sustainability reporting among first-time reporters and SMEs in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. Lany has worked in international development for the last 20 years, including previous roles with the UN Development Program (UNDP) and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the independent, international organization that helps businesses and other organizations take responsibility for their impacts, by providing the global common language to report those impacts. The GRI Standards, which are provided as a free public good, are the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting standards.
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The Middle East Green Initiative launched in Saudi Arabia last month was hailed by the UN’s deputy chief as a valuable commitment and strategic vision, to transition regional economies away from unsustainable development, to a model “fit for the challenges of the 21st century”