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Publish Date: 11 May 2021
Geneva, 11 May 2021: The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated impacts of extreme weather and climate change in vulnerable countries but also highlighted the need to build resilience against a multitude...
Publish Date: 26 January 2021
Geneva, 26 January 2021- As climate change leads to an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather, the need for effective early warnings and early action took centre...
Publish Date: 26 October 2020
Climate change increasingly threatens human health, food and water security and socio-economic development in Africa
Publish Date: 12 November 2020
It is the 50th anniversary of Cyclone Bhola, the world’s deadliest known tropical cyclone which killed up to 500 000 people in what is now Bangladesh. It prompted calls for...
Publish Date: 17 November 2020
South West Indian Ocean countries have launched a new five-year project to improve operational forecasting and multi-hazard early warning systems in a region which is exposed to climate change, sea...
Publish Date: 13 October 2020
Geneva, 13 October 2020 - Over the past 50 years, more than 11,000 disasters have been attributed to weather, climate and water-related hazards, involving 2 million deaths and US$ 3.6...
Publish Date: 19 May 2020
The 2019 Annual Report of the Climate Risk & Early Warning Systems outlines the cooperative actions taken by WMO, The World Bank / GFDRR and UNDRR in the past year...
Publish Date: 22 April 2020
Carbon dioxide levels at a key global observing station are about 26 percent higher than in 1970, whilst the average global temperature has increased by 0.86°C since then, and is...
Publish Date: 14 April 2020
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he was “deeply saddened” by reports of loss of life and property in Vanuatu, Fiji, the Solomon Islands and Tonga. “The Secretary-General commends the governments...
Publish Date: 12 December 2019
Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States benefit from better weather and climate information A global initiative to strengthen early warning systems and climate resilience in the most vulnerable...
