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“Let us remember this as a Blue COP”
News
Climate change, Oceans
Publish Date: 12 December 2019
Chile, in its role as presidency, designated the UN Climate Change Conference, COP25, as the ‘Blue COP,’ in order to increase awareness of the impact of climate change on the ocean and to harness ocean science to support climate action.
Glacier melt and Arctic change affects the globe
News
Climate change, Cryosphere, Polar
Publish Date: 11 December 2019
Glacier melt will inevitably increase in the future, both for 1.5°C and 2°C temperature increases, with global impacts for water resources and sea level rise.
Mountains Matter
News
Climate change, Cryosphere
Publish Date: 11 December 2019
The high mountain regions are home to 1 billion people, are the source of freshwater to at least 1.9 billion people and are crucial for regulating the global climate system. Preservation of mountain ecosystem functions is therefore essential to global water, food and energy security.

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.
Nowcasting for Central Europe
Weather, Climate, Satellite, Forecast, Research, Climate services, Environment
Bulletin nº Vol 65 (1) - 2016
21
Publish Date: 21 March 2016
High-impact weather has always posed challenges for crisis management and risk prevention. Nowcasting provides very short range weather forecasts (0–6 hours) and warnings in a timely manner and in high spatial detail. It can help end users such as civil protection authorities, hydrologists and road safety services in their time-critical applications to respond, prepare and take actions for high-impact weather.
Climate Policy Support
Climate, Climate change
WMO supports climate policy-making by providing authoritative advice and information on climate change mitigation and adaptation. WMO draws from the best available scientific expertise from the National Hydrological and Meteorological Services of its Members, and international data centres and agencies. Moreover, WMO promotes a better understanding of the societal impacts of climate change within the United Nations system.
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
12
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.”