The 2018 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects produced by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) notes that globally, the urban population in the mid-year of 2020 was 4.4 billion (56% of the world's population). As the urban population continues to grow, urban environmental issues such as air pollution, weather, climate, and water-related hazards become dominant.
The development of an integrated urban service is to address multiple challenges, including those related to disaster risk reduction (DRR) with a focus on the high-impact weather in the context of dense population and, to deal with those challenges, the government needs to mobilize efforts, creativity, and innovation from all sectors to achieve sustainable development of urbanized regions.
WMO has strengthened its consultative and engagement mechanism, through the Geneva Declaration 2019, for closer collaboration among public, private, and academic sectors, as well as collaboration with user communities and civil societies. In response to the Geneva Declaration 2019 CMA (represented by the Shenzen Municipal Meteorological Service), Hong Kong Observatory, and the Meteorological ana Geophysical Bureau of Macao, China, prose a Pilot Project on Smart Meteorological Service Community (PP-SMSC) which aims to explore the PPE model in developing integrated urban meteorological services in WMO Regional Association II (Asia)
The project proposal was approved as a Regional Asociation II (RA II) Pilot Project and was included in the RA II Operating Plan (2021 - 2024) at the RA II-17 (Phase II), 27 - 30 September 2021. The project implementation started at a kick-off meeting held on 25 February 2022.
