How is WMO tackling climate change?
• WMO and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988 to take stock of scientific knowledge of the threat of human-induced climate change. The IPCC is now recognized as the authorative international, scientific and technical voice on climate change. WMO hosts the IPCC Secretariat. WMO’s World Climate Programme, in partnership with other UN specialized agencies, such as the UN Environment Programme, the UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO), as well as National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, research institutions and organizations, facilitates international climate change research programmes with the aim of providing better and more up-to-date information, thus enabling decision-makers to reach more informed conclusions as to the causes and impacts of climate change and to develop appropriate response strategies. • 2. I
