GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Participants at the WMO - UNESCO side event on Observation, Monitoring and Prediction: Essential elements of climate knowledge, UNFCCC COP-15, Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 December 2009. From left to right: Dr Patricio Bernal (Assistant Director-General of UNESCO for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)), Mr Art Levin (Head of the Telecommunication Standardization Policy Division at the International Telecommunication Union, ITU), Dr Amir H. Delju (WMO), Dr Vicky Pope (Head of the climate predictions programme at the Hadley Centre, UK Met Office), Dr Thomas Peterson (Chief Scientist, National Climate Data Center, NOAA, USA) and Dr John Zillman (Chairman, International Organizing Committee for WCC-3 and Chairman of Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Steering Committee, Australia).
During the UNFCCC COP15, about 350 people attended this WMO and UNESCO hosted side event on 9 December, 2009, entitled: Observation, monitoring and prediction: Essential elements of climate knowledge. Reliable observation networks and high quality data are a prerequisite for understanding current and future climate variability and change. These are also essential for monitoring, early warning and climate predictions that constitute a knowledge-base in support of strategies for provision of efficient climate services and adaptation to climate change as envisaged in the Global Framework for Climate Services, the outcome of World Climate Conference-3.
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