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WMO Prioritizes Gender Equality
Weather, Climate, Climate services, Water, Drought, Public health
Bulletin nº Vol 64 (2) - 2015
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Publish Date: 3 December 2015
We must better understand the needs and use the full capacities of both women and men to meet development challenges and serve communities in a world increasingly subject to the...
China's Implementation of Impact and Risk-based Early Warning
Weather, Climate, Disaster risk reduction, Environment, Floods, Forecast, Natural hazards, Agriculture and food security, Drought, Information
Bulletin nº Vol 64 (2) - 2015
3
Publish Date: 3 December 2015
China is one of the countries most affected by meteorological hazards. From 1984 to 2014, on average per annum meteorological hazards caused 4 066 deaths and 192.2 billion Chinese Yuan...
Drought preparedness day shows pathway for action
News
Drought
Publish Date: 12 September 2019
A major conference on drought and desertification has held a special Drought Day to emphasize the need to switch from a piecemeal, reactive crisis-driven approach to a proactive risk management approach.
Implementing the Global Framework for Climate Services at Regional and National Scales
Global Projects
Capacity development, Climate change, Climate services, GFCS, Natural hazards, El Niño / La Niña, Drought, Education, Training
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges to human society in contemporary times. Statistics show that the last decades have already seen a sharp rise in economic, social and...
EUROCLIMA+ boosts risk management of droughts and floods in the Andes
News
Drought, Capacity development, Climate change, Floods
Publish Date: 2 May 2019
A new project called EUROCLIMA+ : droughts and flooding- in the Andes has been launched.
Kickoff Meeting of Papua New Guinea CREWS Project
News
Climate, Drought, Natural hazards
Publish Date: 18 February 2019
Developing countries, least developed countries (LDCs) and small island developing states (SIDS) are particularly vulnerable to impact of climate extremes, including drought which could lead to water crisis or severe food shortage.
WMO leads new flood and drought management project for Volta Basin
News
Drought, Climate change, Climate services, Floods, Capacity development, Disaster risk reduction
Publish Date: 26 October 2018
The 32 nd Meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board, which was held in Bonn, Germany on 9-12 October 2018, has endorsed a USD 7.92 million regional proposal submitted by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) entitled “Integrating Flood and Drought management and early warning for climate change adaptation in the Volta Basin.” The targeted project countries include Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo.
Working Across Borders to Improve Early Warnings in South Eastern Europe
News
Floods, Forecast, Climate change, Disaster risk reduction, Drought, Capacity development
Publish Date: 12 October 2018
A massive storm system brought historic flooding across South Eastern Europe in 2014, causing more than $2 billion in damages in Bosnia and Herzegovina and shrinking Serbia’s economy by nearly a full percent. Two years later, in August 2016, thunderstorms in the Former Yugoslav Republic (FYR) of Macedonia dropped 93 liters of precipitation per square meter in just a few hours, sparking flash floods in the capital, Skopje, that killed at least 21 people .
The Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction Project
Multi-National projects
Agriculture and food security, Forecast, Drought, GFCS, Climate services, Weather
Subseasonal-to-Seasonal prediction project Many management decisions, for example in the context of agriculture, have to be taken on sub-monthly scales – a time scale that lies between the well-established and...
WMO and CIMH co-host international training symposium in Barbados
News
Education, Training
Publish Date: 30 October 2017
About 85 weather, climate and water experts from around the world are meeting for the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) 13th Education and Training Symposium (SYMET-XIII) to focus on improving the capacity of hydro-meteorological services internationally to address global challenges such extreme weather and long-term climate change.