WMO is rolling out marine services training courses to strengthen impact-based forecasts and marine and coastal hazard early warnings, thus contributing to the new UN Early Warnings for All initiative.
The global battle to reduce disaster losses by 2030 will be won or lost in Asia and the Pacific, according to the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, which organized the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction hosted by Australia in Brisbane.
Dr Sue Barrell of Australia has been named as the laureate of the IMO prize - for her leadership of the international weather, water & climate community and for a career of commitment to the World Meteorological Organization.
In a year overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-economic fallout, 2021 nevertheless saw progress towards in strengthening early warning services and building resilience to extreme weather and climate change impacts in some of the world’s most vulnerable countries.
