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July 6, 2015 Photo: N. Palmer What happens if the climate forecast and agro-advisory information produced at the beginning of the season do not reach farmers and pastoralists? Or what if they do but farmers and pastoralists fail to understand the forecast or what decisions they need to make? |
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July 6, 2015  Geneva 1 July 2015 (WMO) The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have issued new joint guidance on Heat–Health Warning Systems to address the health risks posed by heatwaves, which are becoming more frequent and more intense as a result of climate change. |
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July 6, 2015  29th June to 3rd July 2015, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) in collaboration with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have conducted the training workshop on Climate Modelling in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 29th June to 03rd July 2015. |
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June 30, 2015 Tanzania will soon have the capacity to conduct weather forecasts for longer periods of between 30 and 150 years, thanks to a new technology and training of local experts from the United Kingdom. |
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June 25, 2015 A Norwegian NGO and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) are partnering to increase the capacity of governments in Africa to address climate change, extreme weather events and variable rainfall. |
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June 24, 2015 President Obama is committed to combating the impacts of climate change and protecting the health of future generations. |
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June 23, 2015  The Norwegian Refugee Council has signed an agreement with the World Meteorological Organization to send experts into the field to increase the capacity of national institutions to develop climate information and products that will help vulnerable African countries to cope with climate change, extreme weather and uncertain rainfall patterns. |
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June 16, 2015 The 17th Congress of the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva ended today. After countless hours of discussions they managed to pass a almost completely rewritten resolution on sharing climate data in the last hour. |
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June 12, 2015 UNITAR and the GFCS Office will release in June 2015 an on-line free-of-charge tutorial designed for national experts and open to practitioners and the general public, with the aim of promoting GFCS and raising awareness of its objectives and the benefits of climate services. It will include basic training to create a common standard of understanding of the main aspects of climate services. |
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June 11, 2015 Today, the World Meterological Congress adopted Energy as additional (fifth) priority area of the GFCS. |