Environmental risks have become the greatest source of long-term concern and are projected to intensify over the next decade, according to the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks Report.
Now in its 20th year, the Global Risks Report was published ahead of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in the Alpine resort of Davos.
WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo is among the hundreds of government, business, UN and civil society leaders who have been invited to attend the prestigious gathering.
She will seek to forge new relationships with the corporate sector to support climate adaptation by leveraging the Early Warnings for All initiative’s private sector engagement strategy, and to help ensure informed climate mitigation. This includes through the Global Greenhouse Gas Watch initiative.
Investment in hydromet services, and in early warnings, makes economic sense and will be one of WMO’s main messages in Davos.
The theme of the World Economic Forum annual meeting is Collaboration for the Intelligent Age.
Technological advances such as Artificial Intelligence, cloud computing, satellites and Big Data are opening new horizons for weather forecasting and climate monitoring….
