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In 2018, the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (Decision 11/CMA.1) at the 24th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) called on the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) through its Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) to regularly report on the state of climate services with a view to “facilitating the development and application of methodologies for assessing adaptation needs”. Following this decision the 2019 State of Climate Services Report will be launched at COP 25.

Madrid, 3 December 2019 - Weather and climate services are vital for sustainable development and climate change adaptation. The benefits of investment greatly outweigh the cost, and yet the capacity to deliver and access these services is uneven and inadequate, according to a new report.

The African Climate Risks Conference (ACRC) is an open platform for sharing the latest African climate research among researchers, policy makers, practitioners and development partners. The ACRC will offer a prime opportunity to promote the uptake of new data, tools and knowledge; brokering new research collaborations and more targeted donor support.

Promoted and facilitated by the World Meteorological Organization in cooperation with the GFCS Partner Advisory Committee, the GFCS focuses on developing and delivering information services in agriculture and food security, disaster risk reduction, energy, health and water, and organizes its work around observations and monitoring; climate services information systems; research, modelling and p

The Regional Climate Consortium for Asia and the Pacific (RCCAP) is a community of practice, established by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to facilitate the development, dissemination and application of climate information in support climate resilient development in its Developing Member Countries (DMCs).

By Moussa Labo¹, Mariane Diop Kane², Filipe Lucio³ and Veronica Grasso

On 4 April 2019, the GFCS Tanzania Project Delivery Team (PDT) met at the Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) Headquarters to take stock of the implementation of activities under the Adaptation Programme in Africa (APA II) project. 

As the recognition of the dependence between climate change and variability and human welfare grows, climate action continues gaining importance on the global development agenda.