3.1.2. Gathering Information and Monitoring the Situation

Different organisations monitor and forecast weather conditions. The Estonian Weather Service uses several European forecasting models and alert systems (Table 1) [53–55] and measures UV radiation. Measuring the quality of drinking and bathing water, spread of infectious diseases, and vector-transmitted diseases is the responsibility of the Health Board [59]. Not addressed are the spread of potentially infectious agents, vectors, airborne mould, and changes in indoor environments associated with climate change.

The Environmental Health Research Centre under the Estonian Health Board was active during the period 2013–2015, with the help of EU structural funding. The goals of the Centre were to collect data from different state agencies to analyse the associations between morbidity and environmental factors; to conduct risk assessments and health impact analyses; and to develop evidence-based policy proposals concerning environmental health [60]. Due to the of lack of resources, the work of the Centre on comprehensive risk and vulnerability analyses has stopped.

The Estonian Rescue Board, in collaboration with Health Board [61], conducts risk analyses for emergency situations (Table 1). However, most of the analyses do not consider climate change when assessing the probability and impact of events. The Internal Security Development Plan 2015–2020 [58] identified, as a problem, the lack of a common environment for analyses of the sustainability of essential services, and of phenomena and events with impacts on the living environment; together, these make the timely prediction of needs impossible. An official from the Ministry of the Interior stated in an interview the need to make the compilation of risk analyses more efficient (29 April 2015): "*We would like to create a situation where the risk analysis is more frequent, based on the needs, in other words, when there is a need for a more frequent analysis than after every two years, then it is done* ... "
