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Issue 2/2022 of the WMO Services for Aviation Newsletter has just been issued. The newsletter, issued two times per year, brings the meteorological and aviation communities up-to-date on some of the latest developments within WMO, its Members and its partner organizations such as ICAO. The latest

Building greater policy coherence among Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation can contribute to advancing sustainable development. As a co-leader of the regional UN Task Team on Climate change and Disaster Risk Reduction, the WMO Regional Office for Europe supported the UN DRR

Early this year, two new tutorial videos on OSCAR/Surface were published, one on the web client toll and another one on station templates. From now on, subtitles in all WMO languages are available in these videos. The tutorial videos with subtitles can be seen in “WMO – OMM” channel in Vimeo or via

As a result of an increase in the frequency and intensity of climate-related extreme weather events, such as high energy storms, wind gusts, heavy precipitation and extreme temperatures and slow onset climate events, such as rising sea levels, thawing of permafrost, land degradation and retreating

Ms. Gwi Yeop Son, Regional Director of the UN Development Cooperation Office for Europe and Central Asia and Ms. Mona Folkesson, CCA/Cooperation Framework Officer meet the WMO Regional Office for Europe. The UN Development Coordination Office (DCO) serves as the secretariat for the UNSDG at the

The first edition of the 2021 State of the Climate in Europe report saw the light of day on November 2. This science-based policy report is a joint publication of the Copernicus Climate Change Service of the European Commission and the World Meteorological Organization. However, it would not be

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in collaboration with the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) is convening a course for on-the-job trainers (OJT) and competency assessors (CA) at the WMO Regional Training Centre (RTC) in Bridgetown, Barbados from 13 to 17 February

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and International Sava River Basin Commission (ISRBC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in September 2022 to extend the cooperation and joint activities in the fields of water, climate, weather and environment, leading to synergies that will

To support the implementation of the recently adopted Unified data policy, this week the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Secretariat hosted a Regional Association VI Conference on the future role of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs): Leadership and Management. The

The second session of the Commission for Weather, Climate, Water and other Environmental Services (SERCOM-2) was convened at WMO headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland from 17 to 21 October 2022. The session, which included an online component for those unable to travel to Geneva, was attended by more