Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC)
GFMC Mandates
- Coordinator and Secretariat, Global Wildland Fire Network (GWFN) and the UNISDR Wildland Fire Advisory Group (UNISDR-WFAG)
- Interim Secretariat, International Wildfire Preparedness Mechanism (IWPM)
- Secretariat, International Fire Aviation Working Group (IFAWG)
- Coordinator, Eurasian Team of Specialists on Landscape Fire Management
GWFN and UNISDR-WFAG Mission
In accordance with the decision of the former UNISDR Inter-Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and the former IATF Working Group on Wildland Fire, the Global Wildland Fire Network (GWFN) and the UNISDR Wildland Fire Advisory Group (WFAG) were created in 2004 under the auspices of UNISDR. The GWFN provides an umbrella for 14 independent Regional Wildland Fire Networks of different / individual origins and mandates and eight Regional Fire Management Resource Centers. Its mission is to:
- Reduce the negative impacts of landscape fires on the environment and humanity
- Advance the knowledge and application of the ecologically and environmentally benign role of natural fire in fire-dependent ecosystems, and sustainable application of fire in land-use systems.
