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World Meteorological Day 2021 - The Ocean, Our Climate and Weather
When it comes to the weather and climate, most of us think only about what is happening in the atmosphere. If we ignore the ocean, however, we miss a big piece of the picture.
Implementing Mechanisms
A foremost objective in implementing Public-Private Engagement (PPE) is to ensure that all stakeholders of the weather, climate and water enterprise are involved in and contribute to high-quality information and services. To this end, the following elements are identified as the key implementing mechanisms.
World Meteorological Day 2022 Programme
The World Meteorological Day ceremony took place in Geneva on 23 March 2022. The live-stream recording of the event is available on our WMO YouTube channel in English.
Water
Water, Oceans, Floods, Drought, Cryosphere
Water stress, water-related hazards and water quality pose increasing challenges to modern society. And yet, the capacity to monitor and manage this vital resource is fragmented and inadequate. Billions of people around the world also feel the impact of climate change through water.
2030 agenda
But we are not on track. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 outlines four priorities for action to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risks: (i) Understanding disaster...
The power of partnerships
A total of 274 million people worldwide will need emergency aid and protection in 2022, a 17 per cent increase on the previous year, according to the Global Humanitarian Overview...
Adaptation and resilience
Specifically, the UN estimates that 50% of the total share of climate finance provided by all developed countries and multilateral development banks needs to be allocated to adaptation and resilience...
Early warnings save lives and livelihoods
Quite simply, we are better than ever before at saving lives. Supercomputers and satellite technology have facilitated huge leaps in our forecasting ability and the emergence of user-tailored services, underpinned...
Climate change and extreme weather
It says that “human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe. Evidence of observed changes in extremes such as heatwaves, heavy...
Rising risks
According to WMO’s Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes 1970-2019 , the number of disasters increased five-fold between 1970 and 2019. Economic losses have...