World Meteorological Organization

Author: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

The Second World Climate Conference, organized by WMO and its partners in 1990, provided decisive momentum to the interna- tional efforts that resulted in the development of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992 and the Global Climate Observing System. In the midst of these significant contributions, in 1993 WMO began to issue an annual statement on the status of the global climate, which has by now become an established source of infor- mation eagerly sought after, each year, by the scientific community and the media. The WMO Statement on the Status of the Global Climate in 2007 is the latest in this successful series.