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536 M.vandenHombergandC.McQuistan Table22.4 Injustices identified incurrentfloodearlywarningsystems inSouthAsia Proposed technology for climate justice component Injusticesderived fromcase study (expert interviews, focus groupdiscussions,desk research) climate justice principle required to tackle the injustice Adjustments required tobridge thegap Access to services Bothnational and community-basedEWSdonot effectively reachpoorand vulnerablecommunities Distributive, normative Incremental and fundamental Access to technologyand knowledge NMHSare limited in their possibility to improve the spatial and temporal resolutionof the forecasts, as they lack the fundingandcapacitynecessary touse the state-of-the-art technologyandcollectmore granulardata.Thepoorand the vulnerablecanoftennotbenefit fromearlywarningearlyaction informationdue to thedigital divide Distributive, normative Incremental and fundamental Use Inassessments for hard-engineeringsolutions for floodCRM, the impacton the poorandvulnerable isoftennot considered Procedural Incremental and fundamental Technological innovationand implementation There isnotmuch roomfor innovation, as theavailable budgetsusuallybarelycover the rollingout andscalingupof existingcopycat-type technology. Inaddition, capacity building to roll outfloodCRMat local level isoftennot sufficient, due tomanyadhoc, short-lived project interventions Procedural, distributiveand normative Transformative Governance Insufficientgovernanceat national to local, andnational to regional/neighbouringcountries, interfaces.Plethoraof reporting frameworks, lackof standardisationandquantitative dataat sufficientlygranular level. Capacity for reporting isnot sufficient Procedural and transitional Fundamental and transformative Finance Limited funding forpublic adaptation isgoing to the least-developedcountries, and thepoorandvulnerablehave very limited funding forprivate adaptationactions Compensatory, distributive Transformative NoteNationalMeteorologicalandHydrologicalServices(NMHS),CRM climateriskmanagement