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Websites
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA)
OCHA is the arm of the UN Secretariat that is responsible for bringing together humanitarian actors to ensure coherent response to emergencies. OCHA also ensures there is a framework within which each actor can contribute to the overall response effort.
OCHA's mission is to mobilize and coordinate effective and principled humanitarian action in partnership with national and international actors in order to alleviate human suffering in disasters and emergencies; advocate for the rights of people in need; promote preparedness and prevention; and facilitate sustainable solutions.
Online Museum on the History of Weather Research
This Museum of Weather Research celebrates the 20th anniversary of the World Meteorological Organization's World Weather Research Programme (WWRP). WWRP was established in 1998 to foster advances in weather prediction research that mitigate the impacts of high-impact weather events on society. WWRP coordinates scientific working groups as well as national and international research projects focused on specific high priority areas.
Open Climate Network (OCN)
The Open Climate Network (OCN) is developing a set of climate policy tracking and assessment tools that will help people raise the right questions about climate-related policy design and implementation in their countries. These tools will generate a nuanced, contextualized, independent, and peer-reviewed understanding of climate policy implementation for both domestic and international audiences. Our aim is to harness the insights captured through the assessment tools and use them to engage civil society and others in the interest of improving policy design and implementation.
Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO)
L'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture joue un rôle de chef de file dans les efforts internationaux de lutte contre la faim. La FAO, qui est au service à la fois des pays développés et des pays en développement, est une tribune neutre au sein de laquelle tous les pays se réunissent sur un pied d'égalité pour négocier des accords et débattre de politiques. La FAO est également une source de savoir et d'informations. Elle aide les pays en développement et les pays en transition à moderniser et à améliorer les pratiques agricoles, forestières et halieutiques, et à g ...
Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO)
L'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture joue un rôle de chef de file dans les efforts internationaux de lutte contre la faim. La FAO, qui est au service à la fois des pays développés et des pays en développement, est une tribune neutre au sein de laquelle tous les pays se réunissent sur un pied d'égalité pour négocier des accords et débattre de politiques. La FAO est également une source de savoir et d'informations. Elle aide les pays en développement et les pays en transition à moderniser et à améliorer les pratiques agricoles, forestières et halieutiques, et à g ...
Pacific Climate Futures
As a key initiative of the Pacific Climate Change Science Program "Pacific Climate Futures" assists decision makers and planners in 15 partner countries of the Asia-Pacific region in understanding how their climate has changed and how it may change in the future.
The Pacific Climate Futures web-tool has been designed to provide information and guidance in the generation of national climate projections and facilitate the generation of data for detailed impact and risk assessments.
PEMSEA.org
Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA) continues to build and strengthen coastal and ocean governance in the seas of East Asia through intergovernmental, interagency and multistakeholder partnerships.
Polar Activities - Polar observations, research and services
The WMO Polar Observations, Research and Services (PORS) activities promote and coordinate relevant programmes that are carried out in the Antarctic and Arctic regions by nations and by groups of nations. It interfaces with all WMO programmes, including the World Weather Watch (WWW), and other related programmes throughout the world, meeting global needs and requirements for meteorological observations, research and services in the polar regions.
Private Sector Initiative - database of actions on adaptation
While climate change poses a number of risks to vulnerable communities and businesses around the world, many opportunities are unfolding for private companies to implement actions towards reducing risks to their business operations, as well as investing in adaptation action in vulnerable regions in a sustainable and profitable manner [...].
Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD)
En la Cumbre del Milenio de las Naciones Unidas, celebrada en 2000, los líderes del mundo asignaron al desarrollo un papel central dentro del programa mundial mediante los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio, que establecen metas claras para reducir la pobreza, la enfermedad, el analfabetismo, la degradación del medio ambiente y la discriminación contra la mujer para el año 2015. Presente en 166 países, el PNUD utiliza su red mundial para ayudar al sistema de las Naciones Unidas y a sus asociados a despertar una mayor conciencia y verificar los progresos realizados, a la vez que conecta a los ...
Programme des Nations Unies pour le Développement (PNUD)
Le PNUD est le réseau mondial de développement dont dispose le système des Nations Unies. Il prône le changement, et relie les pays aux connaissances, expériences et ressources dont leurs populations ont besoin pour améliorer leur vie. Nous sommes présents sur le terrain dans 166 pays, les aidant à identifier leurs propres solutions aux défis nationaux et mondiaux auxquels ils sont confrontés en matière de développement. Pour renforcer leurs capacités, ces pays peuvent s'appuyer à tout moment sur le personnel du PNUD et son large éventail de partenaires.
Programme on Basic Systems in Hydrology (BSH)
The objective of the Programme on Basic Systems in Hydrology (BSH) is to assist NHSs in the development and maintenance of their activities for the provision of data and products with an emphasis on quality assurance, thereby promoting the effective use of hydrological data and information in support of sustainable socio-economic development. It covers the collection, transmission and storage of hydrologic data and their analysis. It is designed to facilitate assessment and appreciation of the socio-economic benefits of hydrological data and information, provision of water-related services and ...
Programme on Capacity-building in Hydrology and Water Resources
The main objective of the Programme on Capacity Building in Hydrology and Water Resources Management (CBH) is to facilitate the rational development and operation of NHSs, including staff education and training, increased public awareness of the importance of hydrologicalactivities, and provision of support through technical cooperation activities. CBH aim, whose implementation cross-cuts with that of BSH and HFW programmes, is to provide guidance material to assist NHSs in implementing institutional improvements, to build their capacity to assess the economic and social benefits of the servic ...
PROVIA: Programme of Research on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) - WMOLaunched with the support of leading scientists and decision-makers, PROVIA responds to the call for a more cohesive and coordinated approach to harmonize, mobilize, and communicate the growing knowledge-base on vulnerability, impacts and adaptation. The PROVIA website provides an interactive platform for a growing network of scientists, practitioners and decision makers working towards identifying knowledge gaps and meeting policy needs in vulnerability, impacts and adaptation research.
PROVIA's vision is to create an interface between the scientific community and decision make ...
Public Weather Services Programme (PWSP)
The purpose of the WMO Public Weather Services Programme (PWSP) is to strengthen the capabilities of WMO Members to meet the needs of society through provision of comprehensive weather services, with a particular emphasis on public safety and welfare, and to foster a better understanding by the public of the capabilities of their respective National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs), and how best to use the services that NMHSs deliver.
Radio Frequency Coordination (RFC)
The fifteenth World Meteorological Organization Congress (Geneva, May 2007), attended by 163 Member countries, confirmed serious concern at the continuous threat to radio frequency bands allocated for meteorological and related environmental systems expressed by the Fourteenth Congress and adopted Resolution 4 (Cg-XV) – Radio frequencies for meteorological and related environmental activities – in which WMO’s 188 Member states and territories are urged to make all efforts to do their utmost to ensure the availability and protection of suitable radio frequency bands required for meteorological ...
Regional Programme (RP)
The overall objective of the Regional Programme (RP) is to ensure the efficient and effective functioning of the six Regional Associations of the Organization in coordinating meteorological, hydrological, climatological and related activities of their Members. The RP provides a framework for regional cooperation in the implementation of the WMO strategies, policies and programmes taking into account regional requirements, capacities and priorities.
Service d'Information Météorologique Mondiale: prévisions officielles
Ce site présente les observations, la climatologie et les prévisions officielles pour un certain nombre de villes fournies par les services météorologiques et hydrologiques nationaux. Les services météorologiques nationaux réalisent les observations météorologiques dans leur pays respectifs. Des liens vers leurs sites web ainsi que vers les organisations touristiques sont fournis quand cela est possible. Un pictogramme accompagné d'une courte phrase résument le temps prévu pour une journée.
Les médias peuvent faire référence à ce site et créer des liens à conditon de citer les s ...
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