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Global Framework for Global Framework for Climate ServicesClimate Services
Expert Team on Climate Risk and Sector-Specific Climate indices
13-15 July 2011
Tarragona,Spain
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Geneva, SwitzerlandGeneva, Switzerland31 August–4 September 200931 August–4 September 2009
Better climate information for a better futureBetter climate information for a better future
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Key WCC-3 statisticsKey WCC-3 statistics
• 13 messages by Heads of State/Governments
• 57 Ministers or equivalent officials also addressed the HLS
• 14 Executive Heads of UN Agencies & Programmes present
• 17 major contributors to Conference trust fund
• ~ 2500 scientists participated in the “expert” sessions
• 12 “White Papers” addressing key climate service issues
Review of the Outcome of WCC-3
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CONFERENCE DECLARATIONCONFERENCE DECLARATION
• Decided to establish a GFCS
• Requested the SG of WMO to convene an Intergovernmental Meeting within four months
• Decided that the High Level Taskforce should prepare a report after wide consultation
• Decided that the report of the Taskforce be circulated to Member States for consideration at the next WMO Congress (in 2011)
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Findings of the Taskforce
• Present capabilities to provide climate services fall short of meeting present and future needs particularly the case in developing and least developed countries;
• Existing climate services are not focused well enough on user needs do not reach to the people who need them most;
• To support climate services, high quality observations is inadequate, particularly in developing countries;
• Effective climate services will depend on new research developments and strengthened collaboration between all relevant research communities;
• Current capacity building activities to support climate services need to be scaled up and better coordinated.
WMO OMMPre-requisites for climate servicesPre-requisites for climate services
• Available: at time and space scales that the user needs,
• Dependable: delivered regularly and on time,
• Usable: presented in user specific formats so that the client can fully understand,
• Credible: for the user to confidently apply to decision-making
• Authentic: entitled to be accepted by stakeholders in the given decision contexts
• Responsive and flexible: to the evolving user needs, and
• Sustainable: affordable and consistent over time.
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• Provide a cooperative framework in which all nations, International organizations, scientists and sectors will work together to operationally provide climate information to meet the needs of users;
• Enable users to benefit from improved user driven climate information and prediction;
• Mobilize climate science globally to advance the skills of seasonal-to-interannual and multi-decadal climate predictions to generate and provide future climate information on an operational basis;
• Cooperative global infrastructure to foster sharing new advances in science and information.
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Guiding PrinciplesGuiding Principles
• Principle 1: All countries will benefit, with priority to building the capacity of climate-vulnerable developing countries
• Principle 2: The primary goal: to ensure greater availability of, access to, and use of climate services for all countries
• Principle 3: Will address three geographic domains; global, regional and national• Principle 4: Operational climate services will be the core element of the Framework • Principle 5: Climate information is primarily an international public good provided by
governments, which will have a central role in its management • Principle 6: The Framework will promote the free and open exchange of climate-
relevant observational data while respecting national and international data policies• Principle 7: The Framework will facilitate and strengthen, not duplicate.• Principle 8: The Framework will be built through user – provider partnerships that
include all stakeholders
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Seasonal Climate Outlooks
Decadal Climate Prediction
Long-term Climate Projections
Interaction with users
Climate Observations
Climate Data Management
Climate Application Tools
Climate Monitoring
Specialised climate products
Customized climate products
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User Interface PlatformUser Interface Platform
UN Delivering: As One
Regional Climate Outlook Fora
Sector-specific Climate Outlook ForaNational Communication Fora
User Fora
MechanismMechanism
The needs of the user community are diverse and complex
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Climate information for adaptation and risk management
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Priority Sectors for GFCS
• In the initial implementation, the HLT recommends a priority to climate services for Agriculture, Water, Health and for Disaster Risk Reduction
• The User Interface component of the GFCS requires cross disciplinary knowledge and collaboration.
• WMO and partners will collaborate closely in development of tailored climate services
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Proposed Governance OptionsProposed Governance Options
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Sixteenth World Meteorological Congress16 May to 3 June 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
• Appreciated the work of the High-level Taskforce on the Global Framework for Climate Services in producing a high quality and well balanced report and endorsed the broad thrust of the Report
• Decided to support the implementation of the GFCS as a priority of the Organization in the sixteenth financial period
• Noted the urgent need to put in place improved climate services for all, but especially in developing countries
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Sixteenth World Meteorological Congress16 May to 3 June 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
Requested Members to:• Further develop national/regional requirements for climate services so that capacity development projects can be designed and implemented;
•Facilitate coordination and collaboration among various institutions within the countries required for the generation and use of climate services through appropriate legal and institutional arrangements
•Provide adequate resources to the NMHSs for strengthening weather, climate and water data networks and recruiting experts in new technical skills required for generating and delivering climate services;
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Sixteenth World Meteorological Congress16 May to 3 June 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
Requested NMHSs to: (1) Develop partnerships with relevant intermediary organizations and specialized sectoral institutions within the countries including establishing NCOFs/National Climate User Platforms; (2) Collaborate with universities, climate research institutions, and regional and national training centres to continuously improve the technical skills for developing climate services and serving the needs of various users; (3) Continue to improve the technical skills of the staff within their institutions through regular training.
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Sixteenth World Meteorological Congress16 May to 3 June 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
Requested Technical Commissions to: (1) Regularly review the technical needs of the Framework as they relate to the activities and competencies of their Commission, guide establishment and improvement of procedures and processes on technical matters to support GFCS operations, and assist with the implementation of the Framework to the extent possible; (2) Improve coordination of ongoing activities relevant to the Framework within, and between, technical commissions;
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Sixteenth World Meteorological Congress16 May to 3 June 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
Requested Executive Council to: (1) Provide support for, and guidance to, the process of developing the detailed implementation plan and monitoring of its implementation through appropriate working mechanisms; (2) Review Annex I of Resolution 40 (Cg-XII) with a view to ensuring that the climate data and products needed for the GFCS’s climate services are included therein; (3) Review the role and operation of NMHSs specifically addressing the needs of GFCS;
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Implementation ObjectivesImplementation Objectives
• Establishing mechanisms to strengthen the global cooperative system for collecting, processing and exchanging observations and for using climate-related information
• Designing and implementing a set of projects that target the needs of developing countries, particularly those currently least able to provide climate services
• Developing strategies for external communications, resource mobilisation and capacity building programmes
• Establishing internal working methods, particularly for communications and for debating and deciding on implementation priorities, including for the observations, information systems, research and capacity building components
• Setting targets and establishing procedures for monitoring and evaluating the performance of the Framework
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Implementation PrioritiesImplementation Priorities
• Capacity building in developing countries– Linking climate service users and providers.
– Building national capacity in developing countries.
– Strengthening regional climate capabilities.
• Building capacity to implement the User Interface Platform in the developing world
• Improving climate observations in data sparse areas
• Building the capacity of the climate research sector in developing countries
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Immediate Next StepsImmediate Next Steps
• An implementation Plan for the Framework will be set up by WMO and partners
• WMO will hold an extraordinary session of Congress in autumn 2012. This session will create the Intergovernmental Board for the GFCS.
• WMO will contact relevant stakeholders and invite their participation
• WMO is supported by an EC Task group on GFCS
• It may be needed to set baselines to guide priority setting for implementation
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Project 1.3.8.8: Development of user-targeted climate services for agriculture, water, and health sectors for Climate Risk Management and adaptation.– Seeking collaboration to find and apply 4 million CHF over 48 months.– Builds on work already initiated through WCP, HWRP, AgMP, DRR and their
respective technical commissions (CCl, CHy, CAgM, CBS). – Guidance will be provided through a new Joint Expert Group on Climate, Food and
Water.– Information will be provided by/through WMO’s GPCs, RCCs, NMHSs.– Outputs will include methods and tools, training and outreach materials, tailored
information, products, forums and workshops.– Outcomes include improved collaboration, enhanced and expanded user interface
and communications mechanisms, improved applied climate research with sectoral user communities.
– Ultimately, this aims to improve decisions related to CRM and adaptation to climate change, increase social and economic resilience for sustainable development
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Proposed TimelinesProposed Timelines
• By end 2013. Complete an organisation building phase, including establishment of a secretariat to support the Framework and necessary management and executive (technical) committee structures.
• By end 2017. Facilitate access to improved climate services globally in four priority sectors (agriculture, disaster risk reduction, health and water).
• Complete of a mid-term review of the implementation of the Framework
• By end 2021. Facilitated access to improved climate services globally across all climate-sensitive sectors. Involve at least eight United Nations entities and participate in at least USD 250 M of climate-related development projects
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Also visit: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/wcp/ccl/index_en.html
For more information, please contact:
R.K. Kolli, Ph.D.Chief, World Climate Applications & Services DivisionClimate Prediction & Adaptation BranchClimate & Water DepartmentWorld Meteorological OrganizationTel: 41.22.730.8377Fax: 41.22.730.8042Email: [email protected]
Leslie MaloneScientific OfficerClimate Prediction & Adaptation BranchClimate & Water DepartmentWorld Meteorological OrganizationTel: 41.22.730.8220Fax: 41.22.730.8042Email: [email protected]
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Climate Information for
Adaptation and Risk Management : Objectives and Core Activities of CCl OPACE 4
Objective: to improve decision-making for planning, operations, risk management and for adaptation to both climate change and variability (from seasonal to centennial)
Achieved through: a higher level of climate knowledge, and by access to and use of actionable information and products, tailored to meet user’s needs.
Better decisions enabled through: provider-user liaison, dialogue, response
Teams: • Expert Team on Climate Risk and Sector-specific Climate Indices (ET-CRSCI• Task Team on User Participation in Climate Outlook Forums (TT- UPCOF)• Task Team on User Interface (TT-UI)• Task Team on Climate Risk Management (TT-CRM)
WMO OMMPre-requisites for climate services
• Available: at time and space scales that the user needs,
• Dependable: delivered regularly and on time,
• Usable: presented in user specific formats so that the client can fully understand,
• Credible: for the user to confidently apply to decision-making
• Authentic: entitled to be accepted by stakeholders in the given decision contexts
• Responsive and flexible: to the evolving user needs, and
• Sustainable: affordable and consistent over time.
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Elements of the Climate Services Information System
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WMO Regional Climate Centres
• RCCs are Centres of Excellence, which perform mandatory operational regional-scale climate functions in the domains of long-range forecasting, climate monitoring, data services and training
• Highly recommended functions comprise the domains of climate projections, co-ordination, capacity building and R&D
• RCCs are complementary to and supportive of NMHSs, which deliver all warnings and national-scale products
Mandatory product list (examples):
Assessment of GPC products
Regional/sub-regional seasonal outlooks
Consensus outlook statements
Verification datasets
Climate diagnostics bulletins
Reference climatologies
Implementation of climate watches
Regional climate datasets
Training, feedback mechanisms, information portals
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Designated RCCs
Pilot RCC Networks
BCCTCC
NEACC
ICPAC
ACMAD
CIIFEN
Pilot RCCs
Pilot RCCs by 2012
Pilot RCC Networks by 2012
Pilot RCCs in development
SADC-CSC
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Gobal Producing Centres of Long Range Forecasts (GPCs)
Regional Climate Centres (RCCs)(* Pilot phase)RCC Network Nodes (Pilot)
Global Network of WMO GPCs and RCCs
Washington
Montreal
Exeter
ECMWF
Toulouse*
Moscow*
Pretoria Melbourne
Beijing
Seoul
Tokyo
Lead Centre for SVSLRF
Lead Centre for LRFMME
SVSLRF: Standardized Verification System for Long Range ForecastsLRFMME: Long Range Forecast Multi-Model Ensemble
CPTEC Brazil
De Bilt* Offenbach*
ACMAD*
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Global Analysis and Prediction
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Global Analysis and Prediction
Centres
Global Applications
Centres
Global Applications
Centres
International User Organizations
International User Organizations
National Meteorological
Centres
National Meteorological
Centres
Sector support institutions
Water, Agriculture, Health…..
Sector support institutions
Water, Agriculture, Health…..
National and local users
National and local users
Regional
User Organizations
Regional
User Organizations
Regional Analysis and Prediction
Centres
Regional Analysis and Prediction
Centres
Regional Applications
Centres
Regional Applications
Centres
Scientific and technical analysis and prediction
Social and economic actions
Climate information flow Climate information flow from producers to end-usersfrom producers to end-users