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WMO Provisional Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2019 - English
2019 concludes a decade of exceptional global heat and high-impact weather
Press Release
Climate change, Climate
Publish Date: 3 December 2019
The year 2019 concludes a decade of exceptional global heat, retreating ice and record sea levels driven by greenhouse gases from human activities. Average temperatures for the five-year (2015-2019) and ten-year (2010-2019) periods are almost certain to be the highest on record. 2019 is on course to be the second or third warmest year on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
Climate science informs COP25
News
Climate, Climate change
Publish Date: 2 December 2019
The latest climate science from WMO and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is informing negotiations at the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Coastal flood forecasts become operational in Fiji
News
Climate change, Floods, Marine meteorology
Publish Date: 24 November 2019
An operational system has been developed and implemented for the Fiji Islands to produce and disseminate new early warning information on coastal flooding, which will help save lives and protect property in low-lying, populated coastal areas. There is potential to enhance this early warning platform in the future and to extend it to other South Pacific island nations, and even consider extension to include other coastal flooding sources such as tsunamis.
UN Climate Action Summit
Climate, Climate change, Environment
Meteoworld : September 2019
The UN Climate Action Summit on 23 September 2019 boosted ambition and accelerated actions to implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The event saw 77 countries commit to lowering...
Preface
Climate change
Bulletin nº Vol 67 (2) - 2018
Theme: Environmental challenges
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Publish Date: 12 November 2018
The World Meteorological Organization has been awarded the 2018 LUI Che Woo Prize for Welfare Betterment. The citation recognizes that the persistent effort of WMO has been “pivotal in the tenfold reduction in global loss of life from extreme weather, climate and water-related events observed over the past half-century.”
IPCC issues Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C
Climate change, Research
Bulletin nº Vol 67 (2) - 2018
Theme: Climate
14
Publish Date: 14 November 2018
It has been described as the most important report ever published in the 30-year history of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and an “ear-splitting wake-up call to the world.” The new report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C made headline news around the world with its stark message that limiting warming to 1.5 °C would require unprecedented transitions in all aspects of society.
Preface
Climate change
Bulletin nº Vol 68 (1) - 2019
Theme: Environmental challenges
17
Publish Date: 17 April 2019
WMO for the 21st Century In both 2018 and 2019, the World Economic Forum identified weather extremes, natural disasters, the failure of climate change adaptation and mitigation, and water crises...
Global Climate Observing System
GCOS
Co-sponsored Programmes
Climate, Observations, Climate services, Climate change
The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) is a co-sponsored programme which regularly assesses the status of global climate observations and produces guidance for its improvement. It is co-sponsored by the...
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WMO tells Budapest Water Summit: Data matters
News
Water, Climate change
Publish Date: 16 October 2019
Water stress, water-related hazards and water quality pose increasing challenges to modern society, compounded by climate change. And yet, the capacity to monitor and manage this vital resource is fragmented and inadequate because of insufficient and inaccessible data.
Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
Oceans, Cryosphere, Climate change
Meteoworld : September 2019
The IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate spotlights the benefits of ambitious and effective adaptation for sustainable development and, conversely, the escalating costs and...