The challenge of climate change and extreme weather is too big for any one country to tackle it alone. Partnerships are key.
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 released by the UN Office for the Coordinator of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), because of the intertwined effects of political and economic instability, extreme weather and climate change, and COVID-19 on the world’s most vulnerable people.
Rising demand for authoritative and actionable information led to the establishment of the WMO Coordination Mechanism. This provides United Nations agencies and humanitarian actors with new services for optimising emergency response to high-impact events, especially in developing countries.
The research community is striving to strengthen collaboration between meteorological services, the private sector, academia and users to ensure that forecasts are accurate, timely, accessible and useful.
The Risk-informed Early Action Partnership (REAP) brings together an unprecedented range of stakeholders across the…
