UN-WMO Goal for Climate Early Warning Systems
- A project has been announced by the United Nations to put every individual on the planet in early weather-warning systems range within the next five years as natural disasters have grown frequent and more powerful due to the effects of climate change.
- Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General, announced this project in association with the World Meteorological Organization based in Geneva.
- This project aims to make the alert systems that are already in use in many rich countries available to the planet’s developing countries.
- One-third of the Earth’s population, especially in the countries which are least-developed are not covered by early warning systems.
- 60 per cent of people who are residing in Africa lack coverage.
- Early warning systems help in monitoring the atmospheric conditions on land and at sea on a real-time basis. This helps in predicting the upcoming weather events anywhere like in rural areas, cities, coastal regions, mountains, and polar or arid locations.
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