We are delighted to invite you to a webinar on "Linking Climate Change to Economic and Financial Impacts" as part of the Safe Landing Climates LHA webinars on 22 October 2024, 16:00 CEST.
Linking physical climate hazards to economic and financial impacts requires diverse disciplines including – economics, earth-systems science, and finance. Hear from globally renowned leaders who are at the frontiers of these cross-disciplinary research areas to improve our understanding of key models, data, and methods, as well as to identify gaps that need to be addressed.
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The World Meteorological Organization Science and Innovation Department is looking for a Department Director (Grade D2), for a 2-year period, in Geneva (Switzerland).
Responsible to the Executive Management (Secretary-General, Deputy Secretary-General and Assistant Secretary-General), the incumbent is accountable for the management of the Science and Innovation (SI) Department and ensures that the Department carries out its work as an integral part of the Secretariat and with smooth collaboration with the Departments and Regional Offices.
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The United Nations General Assembly adopted without a vote was a resolution titled “Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences, 2025–2034” (document A/78/L.99). By its terms, the Assembly proclaimed the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences to address the challenges associated with melting glaciers and changes to the cryosphere by advancing related scientific research and monitoring.
Introducing that text, the representative of France, speaking also on behalf of Tajikistan, spotlighted the vulnerability of glaciers and poles to climate change and their role in regulating climate, ocean levels and preserving biodiversity. Describing the cryosphere — the frozen components of the Earth’s system — as “an essential resource for our planet’s equilibrium”, she said that more than 30 countries, with the support of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), have launched an international appeal for the poles and glaciers, committing to launch a Decade of Cryospheric Sciences from 2025 to 2034. “This UN Decade will provide a political impetus needed to make this issue a priority on the multilateral agenda,” she said.
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The Eighth WMO International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM-8), jointly organized by WWRP, WCRP, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India, in cooperation with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the International Monsoons Project Office (IMPO), will be held at Pune, India during 17-21 March 2025, both on-site and virtually. IWM-8 will focus on Advancing the Understanding & Prediction of Monsoons and their Impacts in a Changing Climate and will emphasize on addressing monsoon impacts as part of the societal challenges prioritized by the WWRP and WCRP.
Interested people are invited to submit their abstracts online by 30 September 2024.
- For more information and abstract submission, please visit the workshop website: https://wmo-iwm8.tropmet.res.in/
- To read the first circular, click here.
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Antarctic sea ice is on track to be at extreme deficit for the second consecutive winter. In response, polar scientists are calling for urgent global action and a commitment towards the Antarctica InSync programme. The Call for Action is an outcome of the School on Polar Climates: Theoretical, Observational and Modelling Advances, which ran from 22 to 27 July at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.