Written by: Express News Service
2 min readPuneMay 22, 2011 12:11 AM IST
First published on: May 22, 2011 at 12:11 AM IST
Pune’s Dr Medha Khole,director (weather forecasting) of India Meteorological Department will attend the 16th World Meteorological Congress to be held at the International Conference Centre in Geneva. Dr Khole will be among the many dignitaries from the Ministry of Earth Sciences to attend the meet. “It is a unique opportunity and I will be joining the other dignitaries from May 18,’ ‘said Khole,who leaves tomorrow.
The WMO will meet from May 16 to June 3. The meet happens once every four years and the aim of the conference is to determine general policies for the fulfillment of the purposes of the WMO and to establish and coordinate the activities of constituent bodies of the organisation as well as to approve long-term plans and the budget for the financial period.
The Congress was opened by outgoing president Dr Alexander Bedritskiy and WMO secretary general Michel Jarraud. The Congress will consider strategic plan and budget of WMO future priorities for 2012-2015,in particular. This includes the proposed Global Framework for Climate Services,the WMO Strategy for Capacity Development,the WMO Integrated Global Observing System,the WMO Information System,the Disaster Risk Reduction,the Aeronautical Meteorological Services.
The WMO,the United Nations’ authoritative voice on weather,climate and water,has recommended setting up of a Global System for Climate Services which will help countries understand and adapt to climate change and reduce the risk of natural disasters. WMO is billed as one of the most important initiatives,and only next to the Kyoto Protocol and Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change.
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