Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah has said that India attaches special importance to Disaster Risk Reduction and is ready to share its expertise and experience in this field for greater cooperation and mutual trust among Shanghai Cooperation Organization, SCO Member States. He said, India now has a more accurate and timely early warning system in place for emergency situations like drought, flood, lightning, heat wave, cold wave, and cyclone.<br />'' <br />''Mr Shah said this while chairing the meeting of Heads of Departments of Shanghai Cooperation Organization Member States responsible for Prevention and Elimination of Emergency Situations, in New Delhi today. He said that India's approach to Early Warning System is people-centric and the government wants to ensure that its forecasting and warning system is not just scientifically advanced but it is also communicated in a manner that is understandable, usable, and actionable by common people.<br />'' <br />''The Home Minister said that over the past few years, the SCO region faced high-intensity natural disasters with huge collateral economic losses and huge devastation has been caused around the world by emergency situations associated with Climate Change He said, this has become an acute threat to global development. Mr Shah said that Risk reduction is not a local matter anymore and an action taken in one part of the world has an impact on the risk intensity in other parts of the world.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">He said that the challenges of disaster prevention are similar around the World, and that is why all SCO Member States should learn from each other, innovate and increase mutual cooperation. On this occasion, the Home Minister called for adopting innovative strategies to build a safer world for the generations to come.</span>