Reaching users with climate services |
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Published by: WMO ; 2012
Format: Digital (Free), Hard copy
Vol.60(2) - 2011 - Reaching users with climate services
The final three articles focus on reducing disaster risk. Climate-related disasters are on the rise worldwide. As a result, interest in climate services has risen significantly. National decision-makers need climate information to help them develop policies to decrease the risk of disasters. At the local level, work is underway to make cities safer and a campaign is underway to create a global network of local governments committed to reducing risks and building more resilient cities.
Language(s): English; Other Languages: French, Russian, Spanish
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Understanding user needs for climate services in agriculture
Climate is both a resource and a hazard. By harnessing climate information and services for decision-makers, the agriculture sector will be better placed to provide food for a more crowded and increasingly urban world.
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Improving availability, access and use of climate information
Climate variability and change are serious challenges to sustainable development in Africa. The current famine crisis in the Horn of Africa is yet another reminder of how fluctuations in the climate can destroy lives and livelihoods. Ethiopia, one of the countries impacted by the current drought, has been suffering from climate fluctuations for decades.
