Johann Georg Goldammer is Director of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) and serves as senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and professor for fire ecology at Freiburg University, Germany. The GFMC is provider of a Voluntary Commitment for the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. In Europe, the GMFC is serving as a Specialized Euro-Mediterranean Centre under the European and Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement and supports the Wildfire Disaster Risk Reduction agenda of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).