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Add to Preferred SourcesThe United Republic of Tanzania has launched a National Framework for Climate Services to improve the availability and use of tailored weather and climate services necessary to strengthen resilience to climate change and extreme weather.
The new national framework is spearheaded by the Tanzania Meteorological Agency and embraces different sectors of government and society in order to increase coordination and facilitate cross-cutting action and informed decisions.
Tanzania is one of a growing number of countries which have established national frameworks for climate services, inspired by the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), which is championed by WMO.
The GFCS builds on the achievements from weather forecasting and improved early warning services of rapid onset hazards like floods, and seeks to promote longer-term climate predictions, from months to seasons to decades.
“The need to tackle efficiently the increasing impacts of climate variability and change in socio-economic sectors comes with the imperative of increasing adaptation measures to meet unprecedented demands for clean water, food production, disaster reduction, energy and effective management of health burdens,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.
“This imperative will be hard to address under the current changing climate if countries do not adopt appropriate measures, new approaches and tools that would enable more effective climate risk management, and the production of scientifically sound information and services to inform planning, policy and decision making at all levels,” Mr. Taalas told the inaugural ceremony in Tanzania on 21 August.
The Tanzania Framework for Climate services, which was developed as part of the GFCS Adaptation Programme in Africa, implemented in Tanzania and Malawi from 2015 to 2017. The second phase of this programme, funded by Norway, has been approved for implementation in the next three years.
Original source: WMO
Published on 23 August 2018