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17 Oct 2021 GENEVA

The Science Of The Looming World Water Crisis

Extraordinary meeting to address "explosive" growth in demand for WMO services

17 Dec 2020 GENEVA, Switzerland

Disastrous Climate Damage Continued In 2020

The World Meterological Organization (WMO) assesses that 2020 is on track to be the second warmest year in the most recent decade, with the warmest six years being since 2015.Preliminary information, based on data collected from January to October 2020, shows how high-impact events such as floods, extreme heat and wildfires affected millions of people...

12 Mar 2020 NEW YORK NY, United States

"We Have To Aim High In Glasgow": Guterres

The year 2020 will be pivotal for climate action if the world is to control ever worsening impacts and indicators of climate change before it is too late, according to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres as he launched a World Meteorolgical Organisation (WMO) Statement on the State of the Global Climate...

22 Jan 2020 GENEVA, Switzerland

WMO: 2019 Was Second Hottest Year On Record

The year 2019 was the second warmest on record and the average temperatures for the past 5 years and the past 10 years have been the highest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Each decade since 1980 has been warmer than the previous one and this trend is expected to continue given record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere...

4 Aug 2019 GENEVA, Switzerland

July Hottest Month Ever; Human Impact Contributes; Greenland Melts; Europe Burns

World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Copernicus Climate Change Programme data indicates that July 2019 equalled, if not surpassed, the hottest month on record. June was also the hottest June on record. This is particularly significant insofar as there was an absence of an El Niño effect this year, that normally raises global temperatures...

8 May 2018 GENEVA, Switzerland

WMO Seeks Improved Water Supply Data And Monitoring Systems

The World Meterological Organization (WMO) this week (7-9 May) convened the agency’s “HydroConference”in Geneva, Switzerland with the aim of seeking solutions to manage water more sustainably.WMO identifies a lack of comprehensive water supply data and monitoring systems as making it harder to respond to the growing global water crisis...

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