This document provides an update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It discusses WMO reforms, contributions to sustainable development goals, and strategic plans. Key points include implementing a results-based management approach, voluntary staff reductions to reallocate resources, and reforming administrative activities to increase efficiency and transparency. Partnerships with other organizations are also being enhanced to have greater global impact. The document proposes additional financial needs to further WMO's goals in areas like early warning systems and greenhouse gas monitoring. It advocates for reforming WMO structures to be more effective, efficient, and integrated in addressing 21st century challenges.

1. WMO update
• WMO/UN
• WMO Reform
• Status of climate & disasters
Prof. Petteri Taalas
Secretary-General

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WMO contributions to the SDGs

3. Reforms at the WMO Secretariat
• Culture of common responsibility in provision of services for the Members
• New leadership of WMO: seven directors and several chiefs
• Voluntary separation/early retirement program was carried out to release fresh
resources for meeting new challenges
• Result based management & numerical indicators for implementation of the WMO
strategy
• Reforms at all departments (structures & working practices) for efficiency gains
• Reform of WMO administrative activities: savings, better in-house services,
transparency

4. WMO EC-70
Geneva, 20-29 June 2018
Objectives of CBRWMO Strategic Operating Plan

5. Goal 1 - Better serve societal needs: delivering, authoritative,
accessible, user-oriented and fit-for-purpose information and services
Strategic objective Illustrative monitoring indictors
1.1 Strengthen national multi-hazard
early warning/alert systems to extend
reach and better enable effective decision
response to the associated risks
1.1.1 Number of Members participating in a global alert system
1.1.2 Number of Members using the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) in communication of
warnings/alerts
1.1.3 Number of Members with a MHEWS integrated in a national DRR management system
1.1.4 Number of Members cataloguing high impact weather, weather and climate events using
WMO standard unique identifiers
1.2 Broaden the provision of policy- and
decision-supporting climate information
and services at all levels
1.2.1 Number of Members with basic, essential, full and advanced climate services provision
capacity
1.2.2 Number of Members with NMHSs contributing to climate-relevant outputs (NAPs,
NDCs, mitigation/adaptation projects) through national, multi-stakeholder mechanisms (e.g.
National Frameworks for Climate Services)
1.2.3 Demonstrated impact of WMO climate-related flagship products
1.3 Further develop services in support of
sustainable water management
1.3.1 Number of Members participating in WMO Global Hydrological Status and Outlook
System
1.3.2 Number of Members with operational flood forecasting and warning services
1.3.3 Number of Members with operational drought warning system
1.3.4 Number of Members with improved integrated hydro/met/climate operational
capabilities
1.4 Enhance and innovate the provision
of value-added, decision-supporting
weather information and services
1.4.1 Number of Members with QMS for selected services (aviation, marine, EWS)
1.4.2 Number of Members with socioeconomic benefit analysis conducted in the past five
years
1.4.3 Number of Members with established public/private/academia engagement on: (a)
service delivery and (b) maintenance of networks
1.4.4 Number of Members using (a) web applications and (b) social media in service delivery

6. Partnerships for enhanced global impact of WMO
• New partnership/alliance agreements with World Bank, Green Climate Fund,
European Commission and UNDP to promote climate adaptation and to target
several billion USD scale investments in climate adaptation and national weather,
climate and water services
• WMO has also enhanced co-operation with the national development agencies of
USA, UK, France, Japan, Canada, China, South Korea, Norway, Sweden and
Netherlands
• New partnership agreements have been signed with FAO, WHO and UNFCCC to
improve agriculture, air quality and health services, to support climate mitigation
and to enhance global greenhouse gas monitoring. Also ICAO, IMO, ITU.
• WMO SG was selected as a UN Climate Principal by SG Guterres, WMO is advising
the UNSG on climate matters
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7. Improvement of the global status of WMO
• WMO has enhanced its visibility in media and at several international events as a
climate, disaster and water resource management organization
• The annual state of the climate, disasters and greenhouse gas reports have gained
very high visibility globally. Also the recent 1.5 C report of IPCC and WMO was very
widely recognized. Typically attention of up to one billion readers/viewers have
been reached as follow up of WMO press conferences.
• WMO has began provision of early warning services of high impact weather,
seasonal predictions and El Nino/La Nina variability for UN agencies as a part of the
UNOCC centre at the UN Headquarters (storms, flooding, heat waves, and
drought). Those services help humanitarian agencies to act proactively rather than
after a disaster.
• WMO has played an active role in the Arctic Council after reaching an observer
status in 2017

8. Better services for 191 Members
• About half of the WMO Members are lacking of state of the art weather, climate
and water services
• A country profile database has been developed to monitor the status of Members
and to target development resources
• WMO supports the Members in strategic planning and interacts with governments,
ministers, heads of states to enhance the efficiency of national meteorological and
hydrological services
• WMO promotes development of national and regional centers of excellence and
exchange of know-how and twinning between advanced and developing national
agencies
• WMO promotes coordinated co-operation between public and private sector actors
in weather services and observations
• WMO is establishing a global early warning system based on already existing
European Meteoalarm system

9. Innovativeness of 52 UN agencies & bodies
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WMO

10. Additional financial needs for 2020-23
1. Private sector engagement staffing & meeting resources
2. Urban services: air quality, disasters, climate adaptation
3. Engagement of hydrological and scientific communities in WMO activities
4. Global Meteoalarm implementation
5. Early warning services for international organizations

11. Additional financial needs for 2020-23
6. Strengthening of regional development and collaboration activities
7. Management training for the PRs
8. Enhanced global greenhouse gas budget monitoring
9. Country database
10. Data “revolution”; interpretation of Resolution 40

12. WMO REFORM: WMO of 21st Century?
• Climate change, disasters and (lack of) water resources very high on the global
agenda, need for climate adaptation and the expertise of NMHSs is growing
• Demand for WMO expertise has grown among development agencies and other
UN agencies, like World Bank, Green Climate Fund, EU, FAO, WHO, UNFCCC &
OCHA
• Cross-cutting and holistic approach is favoured instead of silos in weather, climate
and water communities, need for data. Multi-hazard and impact based services
expected
• ~150 Members/PRs not well engaged in WMO
• Overall UN reform under way
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13. Constituent Body Reform, WMO of 21st Century
1873 2050

14. WMO EC-70
Geneva, 20-29 June 2018
Objectives of CBRCongress-17 decision 2015
“Congress requested the Executive Council to provide
recommendations to the Eighteenth Congress on constituent body
constructs, as appropriate, including possible new structures for TCs,
RAs, EC, and also to provide recommendations on rules, procedures,
processes, working mechanisms, and duties, of constituent bodies,
WMO Officers (President, vice- presidents, PRAs and PTCs) and the
relationship between them and the WMO Secretariat to enhance the
efficiency and effectiveness of the Organization and good governance.”
REFORM IS NOT A MATTER OF WILL, IT IS A MUST
EC/Member driven process, Secretariat as facilitator

15. WMO EC-70
Geneva, 20-29 June 2018
• Effectiveness and efficiency
• Seamless integrated approach (spatial, temporal):
- Earth System approach
- WMO acting as one
• Wider engagement of Members & national experts
• Agility to uptake new challenges and tasks
• Improved collaboration with partners
Objectives of CBRObjectives of CB Reform

16. Long-Term Goal 5:
Governance
Alignment of WMO Structure
Policy Advisory
Committee
Scientific
Advisory Panel
Policy, coordination,
integration, foresight
Long-Term
Goal 1: Services
Long-Term
Goal 2: Systems
Long-Term
Goal 3: Science
Strategic Plan Global lead/regional expertise
Long-Term
Goal 4: Capacity
Regional
Associations
Technical
Coordination
Committee
Commission for
Services
Commission for
Infrastructures
Research Board
E-70C Recommendations to Congress
Joint WMO-IOC Committee
for Oceanography and
Meteorology
Established by EC-70

17. National/regional
experts
Expertise, assistance,
efficiency, innovation
Technical solutions
Standards, guidance
Regional requirements,
needs and priorities
An enhanced role for Regional Associations
Congress / EC
TECHNICAL
COMMISSIONS
Implementation
Process
REGIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS

18. • Increase engagement of all WMO Members to address
national, regional and global development needs
• Increase speed, agility and added-value in supporting
Members to provide information and services that
respond to national and regional emerging challenges
• Enhance contribution and visibility to the global
agenda
Capacity development as a top priority

19. Enhanced collaboration with partners
Joint bodies
Working arrangements
Programmes/Projects
More interaction and collaboration with
partners from all relevant areas, e.g.:

20. New Technical Commission structures
• Work driven by WMO strategy, progress followed by the
Executive Council and the Congress
• President + (up to) three Vice-Presidents
• Standing Committees (also joint with partners)
• Conjoint sessions
• 2-year cycle of session of constituent bodies
• Expert groups/Study groups
• Regional Associations engaged in nomination process
• Common procedures – Procedural Handbook
• Better engagement of experts from academia and
private sector

21. CBR-TF: Standing Committees
Infrastructure Commission
1. Earth observing systems and measurement networks
2. Methods of observations, measurements and
instrumentation
3. Data, products and information exchange and life
cycle management
4. Data processing for applied Earth system modelling
and prediction

22. CBR-TF: Standing Committees
Service Commission
1. Aeronautical meteorological services
2. Marine and oceanographic meteorological services
3. Agrometeorological and climatological services
4. Hydrological services
5. Public services and disaster risk reduction (noting
Members’ sovereignty on warnings)

23. Techical commission structures
Management Team
Expert Network
Normative Work
Exploratory Work
Standing
Committee
Standing
Committee
Standing
Committee
Expert Team
Expert Team
Study
Group
Study
Group
Expert Team
Expert Team
Expert Team
Expert Team

24. 1. The work of constituent bodies more closely driven by
regional and national priorities
2. Possibility to engage much larger amount of Members in
WMO activities
3. 2-year cycle strengthens the opportunity to contribute
4. Increasing influence with international institutions,
development and funding agencies
5. Holistic Earth System observations and seamless multi-
hazard approaches
6. Greater efficiency, effectiveness and agility
Benefits to Members

25. What’s next?
2018 2019 2020
Finalization of proposals,
work on details, mapping,
communication, formation of
Communities of Practice (CoP)
APPROVAL of CBR
Establishing of
structures, work
programmes,
preparation of
first session
Kick-off of new TCs

26. Expert Teams/Task Teams/Working
Groups/etc; by commission
• < 270 teams in total, many of them with (partly) overlapping mandates, terms of
reference and membership;
• 3601 Experts in total, 2373 unique names;
• 75 pairs of teams have 4 or more experts in common; 125 pairs have 3 or more;
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30
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34
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10
20
30
40
50
60
70
CAeM CAgM CAS CBS CCl Chy CIMO GCOS JCOMM
Groups per Technical Commission

27. TC expert distribution by Member
United States of America 323
United Kingdom 118
China 111
Germany 109
Australia 108
Japan 93
France 93
Canada 80
Republic of Korea 69
Russian Federation 57
• Half the experts are provided by 10 Members
• More than one third (66) of the WMO Members have no
experts participating in TC work
• Almost half the WMO Members (87) have one or fewer
participating experts

28. Private sector engagement
1. Besides infrastructures (obs & IT) private sector provides services and
observations
2. WMO is supposed to serve the interests of the governments including private
sector
3. Private sector inside/outside of WMO?
4. Decision making will remain in the hands of PRs, but private sector
initiatives/perspectives could be heard at constituent bodies
5. Support for national level legal basis for PPE
6. The backbone of global observing system remains to be financed by public
sector; also the interest of private sector

29. Weather risks are the top economic risks
World Economic Forum, Davos - Global Risk Landscape 2018
Source: World Economic Forum (2018)
Extreme weather events
Natural disasters
Failure of climate-change mitigation
and adaptation

30. Distribution on natural disasters 1998-2017
90.6 % weather related
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31. ~4.5 billion people affected 1998-2017
96 % weather related
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32. Warming so far
-
-

33. Global precipitation 1986–2015 vs. 1901–1960

34. Uneven economic impact of current warming
Effect of 1°C temperature increase on per capita output
Source: International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Outlook
GDP Change %

35. Carbon dioxide level highest in 3 million years
CO2 CH4 N2O
Increase 146 %
Lifetime several
thousands years
Contribution to
warming 66 %
Increase 257 %
Lifetime 12 years
Contribution to
warming 17 %
Increase 122%
Lifetime 114 years
Contribution to
warming 6 %

36. Global CO2 emissions by country
Emissions from OECD countries are about the same as in 1990
Emissions from non-OECD countries have increased rapidly in the last decade
Source: CDIAC; Le Quéré et al 2017; Global Carbon Budget 2017

37. 3 C warming is a major risk for global food security
Loss of crop yield in most parts of the world
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38. Population in low elevation coastal zones
2060 projections
Source: Neumann, Vafeidis, Zimmermann, Nicholls 2015

39. Today 85 % of energy fossil, should be replaced with
renewable, hydro and nuclear during coming decades
Energy consumption by fuel source from 2000 to 2016, with growth rates indicated for the
more recent period of 2011 to 2016
Source: BP 2017; Jackson et al 2017; Global Carbon Budget 2017

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