The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has boosted its presence in the Asia and Pacific region with the opening of its office in Singapore to better service the needs of member countries.
This was revealed by WMO Secretary General Petteri Taalas when addressing Pacific Meteorological Council (PMC) in Honiara.
“We will also strengthen our office in Samoa.
“To enhance our impact we have started building our partnership with other players. For us the important players are World Bank, ISDR, SPREP, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, ICAO, IMO and WHO. These partnerships we are building I would like also to happen at country level,” Taalas told delegates and members of PMC.
He also welcomed the participation of many delegates at PMC and stressed the importance of collaboration between stakeholders.
“It is also important that the small countries are working together. By working together we can achieve more than by running the business as independents.
“It’s important to work with governments, and we can get these development funding from external sources but for long term sustainability, interaction with individual governments is something we need to promote,” he said.
The WMO DG also highlighted the importance of the upcoming COP23 meeting in November in the work WMO does with partners and donors.
“It’s important we play our political card in a right way and WMO was quite visible at COP22 in Marrakesh and the next challenge is our presence at COP23 in Bonn.
The WMO and several of our partners will be looking forward to the release of the status of Global climate report in the November meet,” Taalas said.
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Photo: Secretary General of WMO, Petteri Taalas