Media events
World Climate Broadcasts Forum
Journalists workshop
Launch of two new WMO publications
World Climate Broadcasts Forum
The public increasingly needs information beyond existing weather bulletins to plan ahead and make decisions in the light of climate change. To address that concern, weather presenters from all regions will meet at the World Climate Broadcasts Forum to be held at WCC-3 in Geneva, Switzerland, from 31 August to 4 September 2009. The World Climate Broadcasts Forum on 2 September 2009 is being convened by WMO at the initiative of professional weather presenters associations who see a pressing societal need for broadcast meteorology to embrace climate outlooks.
The event will bring together weather presenters from both developed and developing countries. It will be the first ever such meeting to involve the many weather broadcasting professional associations, including the International Association of Broadcast Meteorology (IABM), the Forum International de la Météo (FIM), the Climate Broadcasters Network-Europe (CBN-E) and the American Meteorological Society. CBN-E will hold its annual meeting from 31 August to 3 September on the occasion of the World Climate Broadcasts Forum and WCC-3.
At the World Climate Broadcasts Forum, weather presenters will discuss best practices in order to develop recommendations for ways to provide climate outlooks to the public at large. The participating broadcasters will interact with policy- and decision-makers, scientists and experts and fellow journalists. Key opportunities for such interactions will be the WCC-3 round table on communicating climate information and a Media 21 journalists workshop. This workshop will include print and broadcast journalists from five continents, including representation from developing countries especially impacted by climate change.
A preliminary programme is now available.
WMO Press release No. 844. "World's weather broadcasters to address public need for climate outlook," added 12 May 2009
Journalists workshop
During WCC-3 WMO and Media 21 are co-organizing a workshop for journalists on anticipating climate risks. This 20th Media 21 workshop - the fourth dedicated to climate change - will be a unique opportunity for journalists, editors and producers from around the world to share experience and improve their knowledge. Apart from attending some of the sessions of WCC-3, journalists will take part in specially tailored panel sessions and be able to meet with high-level international players from UN agencies, humanitarian organizations, private sector, academia, governments, and media. For more information, visit the Media 21 Website.
The launch of two new WMO publications
Climate Sense
31 August 2009, from 12:30 to 12:45
CICG, Ground Floor
Speaker:
Mr Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Tudor Rose have collaborated under a public-private partnership to issue a publication about climate prediction and information for decision-making.
Climate Sense is a fully illustrated 250-page book with over 100 authors relating their work in weather, climate and water services at international, regional, national and local levels. Their commentaries draw upon experiences around the world reflecting how people are using climate information to improve their lives. Climate Sense reflects the progress and challenges in these fields, highlighting good practices in a wide variety of societies and disciplines.
Copies are freely available to delegates at WCC-3. For further information about the book, please contact Sean Nicklin sean.nicklin@tudor-rose.co.uk or speak with Ben Cornwell, in attendance at WCC-3, or the WMO Communications and Public Affairs Office, tel: + 41 (0) 22 730 83 14, e-mail: cpa@wmo.int
From Weather Gods to Modern Meteorology - A philatelic journey
1 September 2009, from 15:00 to 15:30
CICG, Ground Floor
Speakers:
Mr Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization
Mr Edouard Dayan, Director-General, Universal Postal Union
From Weather Gods to Modern Meteorology (111 pages) is a philatelic journey that brings together an impressive array of stamps and other philatelic material that touch on weather and climate themes from countries worldwide. It is a joint effort of WMO and the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a sister agency in the United Nations System.
The meteorological themes of these postage stamps cover such diverse areas as the melting polar ice caps, the ozone layer, climate extremes and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as instruments used to measure atmospheric pollution. The postage stamp is a critical witness of world history and this collection plays a special role in making citizens aware of the importance of climate and weather in their daily lives.
A display of select stamps on climate themes will be on exhibit through WCC-3.
For further information about the book, please contact the WMO Communications and Public Affairs Office, tel: + 41 (0) 22 730 83 14, e-mail: cpa@wmo.int To order a copy of the book, please contact Yvon Staub, e-mail: ystaub@wmo.int, tel: +41 (0) 22 730 8426.
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