A global climate services system is due to be launched in October, in the hope of providing advance warning of weather changes that influence water, food security, natural disasters and health.
Around 70 countries lack adequate infrastructure for coping with challenging weather conditions, and six of these countries — all in climatically vulnerable places —  "have nothing at all", according to Jan Egeland, co-chair of the High-level Taskforce for the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) initiative. (...)

The article:
http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/natural-disasters/news/wmo-to-launch-global-climate-services-system.html

Dal sito della WMO:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/gfcs/index_en.php

Passato...prossimo:
http://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=959:wmo-world-climate-conference-3-wcc-3&catid=33:ambiente&Itemid=58