Climate change: La Niña fades, as global heat keeps rising
06 march 2025 - 17:13:16Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The weak but significant La Niña weather event that began in December is likely to be [...] Full text...
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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The weak but significant La Niña weather event that began in December is likely to be [...] Full text...
January was the warmest on record: WMO
07 february 2025 - 05:32:17Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The world has just experienced the hottest January ever recorded, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said [...] Full text...
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UN regrets US exit from global cooperation on health, climate change agreement
21 january 2025 - 16:24:16Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN agencies responded on Tuesday to President Trump’s executive orders ending US membership of the World [...] Full text...
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2024 was the hottest year on record, says UN weather agency
11 january 2025 - 09:08:26Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN weather experts from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed on Friday that 2024 was the [...] Full text...
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UN chief offers condolences amid devastating wildfires in California Santa Monica Pier in California, USA.
10 january 2025 - 16:06:16New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed sorrow over the fast-moving wildfires that have devastated the [...] Full text...
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2024 is set to be the warmest year on record-WMO
30 december 2024 - 19:17:09Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The year 2024 is set to be the warmest on record, capping a decade of unprecedented [...] Full text...
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Devastating 2024 Atlantic hurricane season ends, marked by record-setting storms
30 november 2024 - 07:26:15Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season officially concludes this weekend, leaving a trail of destruction, loss of [...] Full text...
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COP29: Governments, industry must stop ‘lip-service’ on methane and slash emissions, says UNEP
16 november 2024 - 07:14:56Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - The UN environment agency chief warned the COP29 climate summit in Baku on Friday that methane [...] Full text...
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Record heat persists as WMO calls for urgent services and investment boost
08 november 2024 - 06:32:35Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The world is experiencing unprecedented warming with 2024 poised to become the hottest year on record, [...] Full text...
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Angola hosts inaugural national climate outlook forum
29 october 2024 - 13:17:08Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Climate Services Centre in collaboration with the National Institute of [...] Full text...
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Greenhouse gases surged to new highs in 2023, warns UN weather agency
28 october 2024 - 12:45:25Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) New data released by the UN on Monday indicating that greenhouse gases have hit a record high [...] Full text...
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2023 marked the driest year in over three decades for rivers - WMO
07 october 2024 - 11:31:34Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The year 2023 marked the driest year in over three decades for rivers around the world, [...] Full text...
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Climate crisis: Satellites and AI offer hope for global action, says UN weather agency
18 september 2024 - 16:45:07Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amid renewed warnings from leading climate scientists that global warming could reach 3C above pre-industrial levels [...] Full text...
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Climate change: Ozone layer still well on track for full recovery
17 september 2024 - 06:20:35Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - New evidence in the World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) annual Ozone and UV Bulletin published on Monday [...] Full text...
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Investing in clean air can saves lives and combat climate change - Guterres
07 september 2024 - 14:35:20New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General is marking ‘Clean Air Day’ with a call for global investment in [...] Full text...
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We must do more to keep the air we breathe clean: UN weather agency
05 september 2024 - 12:44:38Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Unchecked climate change, wildfires and air pollution continue to have “a spiralling, negative impact on health, [...] Full text...
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Rising sea level is an 'urgent and escalating threat': UN
27 august 2024 - 07:08:16New York, US (PANA) - The level of the sea globally is rising faster and higher than ever before, creating [...] Full text...
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Mozambique makes great strides towards Early Warnings for All
23 august 2024 - 05:38:34Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Mozambique is playing a leading role in a UN-led global initiative to ensure that all people [...] Full text...
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Another month, another heat record broken: UN weather agency
07 august 2024 - 20:41:57Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Last month, July, saw another extreme weather milestone with the world's hottest day on recent record registered [...] Full text...
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UN Meteorological Organisation flags sand and dust storm scourge
14 july 2024 - 05:51:31Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Dust levels worldwide decreased slightly in 2023, the UN’s weather and climate agency has said, but [...] Full text...
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Earth’s hottest June on record
08 july 2024 - 20:08:14Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Last month was the hottest June since records began and the thirteenth month in a row to [...] Full text...
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World Environment: There is an exit off ‘the highway to climate hell’, Guterres insists
06 june 2024 - 05:38:41New York, United States (PANA) - “It’s climate crunch time” when it comes to tackling rising carbon emissions, the UN [...] Full text...
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East Africa: UN support continues amid heavy rains, severe floods and cyclone threat
04 may 2024 - 07:44:36Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The United Nations and partners continue to support authorities across East Africa as the region braces [...] Full text...
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Heatwave deaths increased across almost all Europe in 2023, says UN weather agency
22 april 2024 - 12:06:53Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Climate change shocks caused record levels of disruption and misery for millions in Europe in 2023 [...] Full text...
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Earth Hour: Lights off, climate action on
23 march 2024 - 17:54:15New York, US (PANA) - The largest global environment movement is happening on Saturday, when the UN invites people around [...] Full text...
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New WMO climate report confirms 2023 hottest year on record
19 march 2024 - 14:57:51Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Records were once again broken for greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea [...] Full text...
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World records more extreme heat in February
02 march 2024 - 05:43:16Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - February saw more extreme heat and unusually high temperatures in both hemispheres, the UN weather agency (WMO) [...] Full text...
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WMO says warmest January is hottest month on record
16 february 2024 - 06:52:54Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In the battle to slow global warming, January was the hottest month on record, according to [...] Full text...
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WMO confirms 2023 as warmest year on record ‘by a huge margin’
14 january 2024 - 05:32:30Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - With the annual average global temperature fast approaching the critical threshold of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, [...] Full text...
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Time running out for global shift to green energy, outgoing WMO chief warns
22 december 2023 - 21:15:07Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The outgoing head of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has urged global leaders to heed scientific [...] Full text...
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COP28: Our voices, needs must be put first in climate talks, young people declared
08 december 2023 - 16:51:18Dubai, UAE (PANA) - Young climate advocates at COP28 in Dubai on Friday said they will not sit idly by [...] Full text...
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COP28: Conference enters final week, negotiations ramp up on emissions cuts, fossil fuels
08 december 2023 - 06:29:10Dubai, UAE (PANA) - After a break, COP28 continues its work on Friday, also the day talks on an outcome [...] Full text...
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Rights group calls for independent investigations into catastrophic Derna floods
06 december 2023 - 09:00:17Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – An independent inquiry is needed to review failings in Libyan authorities’ management of catastrophic flooding in [...] Full text...
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COP28: UN cites ‘alarming surge’ in climate change over the past decade as COP28 pushes for global emissions cuts
05 december 2023 - 10:46:55Dubai, UAE (PANA) - The past decade has been confirmed the warmest ever recorded, continuing an alarming 30-year trend that [...] Full text...
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COP28: Bring the vulnerable to ‘front of the line’ for climate funding
04 december 2023 - 13:45:18Dubai, UAE (PANA) - Advocates showcased the devastating impacts of climate upheaval on their communities at COP 28 on Monday [...] Full text...
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COP28: Methane pledge by ‘giants behind the climate crisis’ falls short, says Guterres
03 december 2023 - 13:46:08Dubai, UAE (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday sent a strong message to the oil and gas industry: [...] Full text...
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COP28: Talks open in Dubai with breakthrough deal on loss and damage fund
01 december 2023 - 06:44:58Dubai, UAE (PANA) - Delegates meeting in Dubai agreed on Thursday on the operationalization of a fund that would help [...] Full text...
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COP28: Conference gets underway with call for ‘terminal decline’ of the fossil fuel era
30 november 2023 - 14:46:59Dubai, UAE (PANA) - The latest round of UN-facilitated climate talks opened on Thursday in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with [...] Full text...
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COP28: Science points to ‘climate collapse’ as UN chief calls COP28 to action
30 november 2023 - 11:17:44Dubai, UAE (PANA) - The world is heating up at an unprecedented pace, new climate data shows, and leaders gathered [...] Full text...
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‘No end in sight’ to rising greenhouse gas emissions: WMO
15 november 2023 - 20:14:35Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Greenhouse gas emissions reached a record high in 2022 with “no end in sight to the [...] Full text...
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2023 likely hottest year on record; further spike expected with El Niño
08 november 2023 - 17:33:30Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - 2023 is “almost certain to be the warmest year on record” after October smashed temperature highs, [...] Full text...
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Climate crisis ‘a health crisis’ increasingly deadly for the most vulnerable
03 november 2023 - 07:01:18New York, US (PANA) - Extreme heat ranks as the deadliest of all severe weather hazards, and heat-related mortality could [...] Full text...
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Cutting disaster risk will boost equality, improve resilience: UN chief
14 october 2023 - 08:06:51New York, US (PANA) - Marking the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on Friday, UN chief António Guterres called [...] Full text...
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Global stocktake of water resources needed - World weather agency warns
12 october 2023 - 16:56:22Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The hydrological cycle is spinning out of balance as a result of climate change and human [...] Full text...
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Hottest September on record puts 2023 on track to be warmest year ever
05 october 2023 - 20:15:54Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - This September was the hottest one ever and 2023 is firmly set to be the warmest [...] Full text...
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Libya floods: UN launches flash appeal to aid 250,000 people hit by devastating floods
15 september 2023 - 05:19:29Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - UN humanitarians are working flat out on the ground in Libya, providing desperately needed aid to [...] Full text...
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Climate inaction puts lives on the line: WMO
14 september 2023 - 16:42:50Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Insufficient progress towards climate goals is slowing down the global fight against poverty, hunger and deadly [...] Full text...
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Libya storm: Humanitarian response ramps up as floods of 'epic proportions' leave thousands dead
13 september 2023 - 05:38:51Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - UN agencies and partners are responding to the disaster unfolding in eastern Libya after extreme rainfall [...] Full text...
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'Climate breakdown' alert as air quality dips during heatwaves: UN chief
06 september 2023 - 11:34:40New York, US (PANA) - Amplified by wildfires and desert dust fanned by climate change, more frequent heatwaves are leading [...] Full text...
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Scorching ‘new normal’ as world buckles under extreme heat: WMO
19 august 2023 - 05:33:38Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Heatwaves sweeping large parts of the world offer yet another reminder that extreme weather events boosted [...] Full text...
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July 2023 was the warmest on record - WMO
09 august 2023 - 06:06:14Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The global average temperature for July 2023 was the highest on record and likely for at least [...] Full text...
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Hottest July ever signals ‘era of global boiling has arrived’ says UN chief
28 july 2023 - 06:39:49New York, US (PANA) - As wildfires raged across Southern Europe and North Africa, top UN climate scientists said on [...] Full text...
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Lies about pandemic accord endangering future generations: WHO chief
20 july 2023 - 06:23:47Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday expressed concern over the continuing spread [...] Full text...
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Extreme weather highlights need for greater climate action - WMO
16 july 2023 - 05:50:29Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Scorching temperatures are engulfing large parts of the Northern hemisphere, while devastating floods triggered by relentless [...] Full text...
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Global sea surface temperatures hit record high
11 july 2023 - 06:04:26Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Global sea surface temperatures reached a record high in May, June, and July – and the [...] Full text...
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Green light for global greenhouse gas tracking network
24 may 2023 - 15:39:23Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) announced on Wednesday that 193 three countries have unanimously appoved the creation [...] Full text...
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Extreme weather caused two million deaths, cost $4 trillion over last 50 years - WMO
22 may 2023 - 13:20:15Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Over two million deaths and $4.3 trillion in economic losses. That’s the impact of a half-century [...] Full text...
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Global temperatures set to break records during next 5 years: WMO
17 may 2023 - 11:32:09Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Global temperatures are likely to surge to record levels in the next five years, fuelled by [...] Full text...
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New temperature records, food security threats likely as El Niño looms
04 may 2023 - 06:17:44Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The development of an El Niño climate pattern in the Pacific Ocean this year is more [...] Full text...
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WMO calls for more investment in integrated weather and climate services
04 april 2023 - 09:28:16Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The global transition to renewable energy will require greater investment in integrated weather and climate services, [...] Full text...
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UN steps up support to Malawi following deadly cyclone
16 march 2023 - 05:37:32New York, US (PANA) - The UN and partners are ramping up support to Malawi in the wake of Tropical [...] Full text...
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Tropical Cyclone Freddy on track to become record-breaking storm
08 march 2023 - 05:33:40Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Tropical Cyclone Freddy - which is threatening communities in Madagascar and Mozambique for a second time [...] Full text...
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Tropical Cyclone Freddy hits Mozambique
25 february 2023 - 06:16:18Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Tropical cyclone Freddy, one of the longest-lasting systems in the southern hemisphere, slammed into Mozambique on [...] Full text...
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WMO unveils plans for sustainable monitoring of greenhouse gases
02 february 2023 - 05:56:30New York, US (PANA) - A UN-led plan to tackle climate change by radically improving the way heat-trapping atmospheric pollutants [...] Full text...
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UN weather agency says 2022 confirmed as one of warmest on record
13 january 2023 - 05:44:19New York, US (PANA) - The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Thursday that 2022 was the fifth or sixth [...] Full text...
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Ozone layer recovery is on track due to success of Montreal Protocol
10 january 2023 - 06:46:08New York, US (PANA) - The Earth’s ozone layer is on track to recover within four decades, a UN-backed panel [...] Full text...
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2022 Year in Review: Amid global turmoil, UN doggedly pursues international climate agreements
28 december 2022 - 05:47:18New York, US (PANA) - Despite strong evidence that human activity played a role in catastrophic weather events, and the [...] Full text...
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WMO releases ‘tell-tale signs’ of extreme weather conditions around the world
24 december 2022 - 12:28:44Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - From extreme floods to heat and drought, weather and climate-related disasters have affected millions and cost [...] Full text...
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Accelerated action needed to save 12,000 lives a day due to injury, violence
30 november 2022 - 06:56:42Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Each day, injuries and violence claim the lives of some 12,000 people around the world, according [...] Full text...
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Large parts of world drier than normal in 2021: WMO
30 november 2022 - 06:02:13Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Most of the globe was drier than normal in 2021, with “cascading effects on economies, ecosystems [...] Full text...
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COP27: $3.1 billion plan to achieve early warning systems for all by 2027
08 november 2022 - 04:50:56Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt (PANA) - With climate-related disasters displacing more people than conflict, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday unveiled the [...] Full text...
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COP 27: Last eight years warmest on record - WMO
07 november 2022 - 05:06:10Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt (PANA) - The latest report from the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO), released on Sunday, shows that the last [...] Full text...
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Climate change: CO2 and methane in our atmosphere reach record levels
27 october 2022 - 05:48:45New York, US (PANA) - Atmospheric levels of the three main greenhouse gases warming our planet - carbon dioxide, methane [...] Full text...
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Only half the world equipped with adequate early warning systems - UN
14 october 2022 - 05:42:54Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A new report from the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the World Meteorological Organisation [...] Full text...
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WMO report urges faster action on transition to clean energy
12 october 2022 - 06:13:21Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN weather agency issued an urgent appeal on Tuesday for governments everywhere to switch to [...] Full text...
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Climate change impacts ‘heading into uncharted territory’, warns UN chief
14 september 2022 - 05:15:53New York, US (PANA) - “Climate science is clear: we are heading in the wrong direction,” declares a major, multi-agency [...] Full text...
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WMO: Climate change in Africa can destabilize ‘countries and entire regions’
09 september 2022 - 10:09:44Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Water stress and hazards like withering droughts and devastating floods are hitting African communities, economies and [...] Full text...
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Greater Horn of Africa drought forecast to continue for fifth year - UN weather agency
27 august 2022 - 05:22:40Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - As millions of people in the Greater Horn of Africa have already “suffered the longest drought [...] Full text...
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Heat, drought and wildfires during one of the warmest Julys on record– WMO
09 august 2022 - 16:37:12Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amidst extreme heat, drought and wildfires, many parts of the world had just experienced one of [...] Full text...
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FAO ramps up support to Sudan farmers as starvation threat grows in East Africa
01 june 2022 - 05:24:23Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is scaling up operations in Sudan, where 10.9 million [...] Full text...
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Disaster prevention, risk reduction, critical to sustainable future: UN deputy chief
26 may 2022 - 06:05:35New York, US (PANA) - The world will experience 1.5 medium to large-scale disasters every day through the end of [...] Full text...
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‘Lifeline’ of renewable energy can steer world out of climate crisis: UN chief
18 may 2022 - 15:56:34Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rises, ocean heat levels and acidification, all set new records during [...] Full text...
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World getting ‘measurably closer’ to 1.5-degree threshold: UN
10 may 2022 - 05:13:16Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - There is a 50:50 chance of average global temperature reaching 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels [...] Full text...
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UN weather agency to spearhead 5-year early warning plan, boosting climate action
23 march 2022 - 14:13:00Geneva, Switzerland US (PANA) - The UN set an ambitious five-year deadline on Wednesday for countries to ensure that citizens [...] Full text...
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Madagascar braces for 4th tropical cyclone in a month
23 february 2022 - 05:26:17Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - The island nation of Madagascar is shoring up for its fourth tropical cyclone in a month, UN [...] Full text...
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2021 joins top 7 warmest years on record: WMO
19 january 2022 - 12:53:31New York, US (PANA) - Last year joined the list of the seven warmest years on record, the UN weather [...] Full text...
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2021 Year in Review: UN reiterates climate change is existential theat to life on Earth
30 december 2021 - 13:06:37New York, US (PANA) - This year saw another steady stream of UN-backed reports reinforcing a stark message: man-made climate [...] Full text...
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COP26 opens with calls for ambitious solutions to tackle climate emergency
01 november 2021 - 05:15:42Glasgow, Scotland (PANA) - The eyes of the world are on Glasgow, Scotland, as the United Nations climate summit known [...] Full text...
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Past 7 years set to be warmest on record, sea level at new high
31 october 2021 - 15:40:13Glasgow, Scotland (PANA) - Record greenhouse gas concentrations have pushed the planet into uncharted territory, with repercussions likely for current and future generations, warned [...] Full text...
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World leaders urged to prioritise action on water and climate
31 october 2021 - 10:03:06Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Countries must step up urgent action to address the water-related consequences of climate change, the head [...] Full text...
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UNHCR responding to worst flooding in decades in South Sudan
20 october 2021 - 06:04:10Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) is supporting the Government of South Sudan in assisting people hit hard by the worst [...] Full text...
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Climate change triggers mounting food insecurity, poverty and displacement in Africa: Report
19 october 2021 - 12:55:03Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Changing precipitation patterns, rising temperatures and more extreme weather contributed to mounting food insecurity, poverty and [...] Full text...
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Climate change, population increase fuel looming water crisis: WMO
06 october 2021 - 05:03:46Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Improved water management, monitoring and forecasting are needed in the face of a looming global water crisis, the UN [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: WMO confirms air quality improvements from COVID-19 lockdowns
04 september 2021 - 05:30:13Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - COVID-19 lockdowns brought rapid and “unprecedented” improvements in air quality in some parts of the world [...] Full text...
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Climate, weather related disasters surge five-fold over 50 years, but early warnings save lives - WMO report
01 september 2021 - 15:06:43Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Climate change and increasingly extreme weather events have caused a surge in natural disasters over the [...] Full text...
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UN climate science talks open amid heatwaves, floods and drought
27 july 2021 - 07:54:46New York, US (PANA) - Negotiations began on Monday to approve a UN science report which will anchor high level summits later [...] Full text...
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Water-related hazards dominate list of 10 most destructive disasters: WMO
23 july 2021 - 05:16:41New York, US (PANA) - Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing global climate, water-related hazards top the list of [...] Full text...
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Time running out for countries on climate crisis front line - Guterres
09 july 2021 - 06:43:04New York, US (PANA) - The world’s running out of time to limit global temperature rise to below two degrees [...] Full text...
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World now likely to hit watershed 1.5 °C rise in next five years, warns UN weather agency
27 may 2021 - 05:22:19Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Odds are increasing that the annual average global temperature will rise beyond 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, [...] Full text...
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World on verge of climate ‘abyss’, as temperature rise continues: UN chief
20 april 2021 - 05:20:42New York, US (PANA) - The Earth’s temperature continues to rise unabated, with 2020 being one of the three warmest [...] Full text...
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Temperatures set to rise: UN weather agency warns
10 february 2021 - 07:38:46Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Temperatures in almost all parts of the world will likely rise between now and April despite [...] Full text...
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Guterres urges the world to scale up funding for climate adaptation programmes
26 january 2021 - 05:53:45New York, US (PAMA) The UN Secretary-General on Monday called for urgent scaling up of funds for climate change adaptation and [...] Full text...
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Tropical Cyclone Eloise expected to make landfall near Beira City in Mozambique
23 january 2021 - 08:42:51Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Tropical Cyclone Eloise has strengthened in the Mozambique Channel and is expected to make landfall near [...] Full text...
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WMO: 2020, one of three warmest years on record
15 january 2021 - 05:12:23New York, US (PANA) - The COVID-19 pandemic was not the only long-term crisis the world will remember from 2020. In [...] Full text...
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2020 closes hottest decade on record – UN weather agency
25 december 2020 - 06:19:39Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As 2020 draws to a close, it leaves in its wake the warmest decade on record [...] Full text...
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'2020 may be third hottest year on record'
02 december 2020 - 17:58:05New York, US (PANA) - Global pressure on wages from COVID-19 will not stop with the arrival of a vaccine, [...] Full text...
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Carbon dioxide levels hit new record; COVID impact ‘a tiny blip’, WMO says
24 november 2020 - 05:40:37Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere hit a new record of 410.5 parts per [...] Full text...
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Africa climate change report reveals heat rising north and south, Sahel getting wetter
27 october 2020 - 06:00:37Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Africa needs to prepare better for climate change by responding to a wide range of potential risks, a multi-agency report led [...] Full text...
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Science, solidarity and solutions needed against climate change: Guterres
10 september 2020 - 04:43:32New York, US (PANA) - Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere are at record levels, and emissions that [...] Full text...
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'COVID-19 disruptions in ocean observations could threaten weather forecast, climate change predictions'
23 june 2020 - 17:29:15Paris, France (PANA) - COVID-19 is threatening to create an ocean data blindspot that could disrupt weather forecasts and hamper [...] Full text...
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Month of May confirmed as warmest on record, CO2 levels hit new high despite COVID economic slowdown
05 june 2020 - 16:55:15Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Last month was the warmest May on record and carbon dioxide levels also hit a new [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: Fall in COVID-linked carbon emissions won’t halt climate change - UN weather agency chief
23 april 2020 - 04:40:53Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An expected drop in greenhouse gas emissions linked to the global economic crisis caused by the [...] Full text...
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Guterres stresses link between climate and water
23 march 2020 - 09:43:05Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that climate and water are “inextricably linked" as both lie [...] Full text...
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Flagship UN study shows accelerating climate change on land, sea, atmosphere
11 march 2020 - 05:24:36New York, US Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A wide-ranging UN climate report, released on Tuesday, shows that climate change is [...] Full text...
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Warmer months ahead for many parts of the planet, says UN weather agency
03 march 2020 - 05:02:30New York, US (PANA) - Many parts of the world can expect above average temperatures in the coming months even [...] Full text...
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2019 second hottest year on record, UN confirms
16 january 2020 - 07:17:08New York, US (PANA) - Last year was the second warmest year on record, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed on Wednesday. “The [...] Full text...
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UN meteorological agency warns of another year of record gas emissions
25 november 2019 - 18:00:08Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Levels of the three main heat-trapping gases emitted into the atmosphere – carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, [...] Full text...
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Experts seek "science–policy interface" to improve community's resilience to climate change in Africa
09 october 2019 - 20:33:51Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Experts gathered Wednesday in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia, on the sidelines of the first African Climate Risks Conference [...] Full text...
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Leading scientists warn climate change ‘hitting harder and sooner’ than forecast
22 september 2019 - 19:40:31New York, US (PANA) - Top climate scientists issued a report on Sunday showing that over the last several years, [...] Full text...
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Ozone on track to heal completely in our lifetime, UN environment agency declares on World Day
16 september 2019 - 20:09:16Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - At the current momentum, scientists predict the planet’s protective shield of gas - or ozone layer [...] Full text...
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World food security increasingly at risk due to 'unprecedented' climate change impact: UN report
08 august 2019 - 16:59:28Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than 500 million people today live in areas affected by erosion linked to climate change, [...] Full text...
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Cyclone Idai: Emergency getting ‘bigger by the hour’, warns WFP
19 march 2019 - 20:30:44Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The full scale of the devastation caused by Tropical Cyclone Idai in south-west Africa is becoming [...] Full text...
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Guterres underlines climate action urgency, as UN weather agency confirms record global warming
06 february 2019 - 22:15:25New York, US (PANA) - In the wake of data released by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), showing [...] Full text...
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World simply ‘not on track’ to slow climate change this year: UN weather agency
29 november 2018 - 19:36:11New York, US (PANA) - The world is heading in the wrong direction to slow climate change after another year [...] Full text...
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Greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere break another record, UN report shows
23 november 2018 - 04:01:38New York, US (PANA) - Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according [...] Full text...
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Global warming report, an 'ear-splitting wake-up call' warns UN chief
09 october 2018 - 02:28:10New York, US (PANA) - A special report on limiting global warming released on Monday by a UN scientific panel, [...] Full text...
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UN agencies fight against environmental risks that cause 12.6 million deaths a year
31 may 2018 - 19:45:16Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two United Nations agencies are combining their expertise to counter the growing threat of extreme weather, [...] Full text...
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Mali seeks to strengthen climate risk and early warning systems
08 may 2018 - 19:16:01Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A new initiative to strengthen multi-hazard early warning systems and to boost resilience is underway in [...] Full text...
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UN forum to coordinate global efforts to address worsening water shortages
07 may 2018 - 20:32:15Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - With extreme weather costing hundreds of billions a year and fears that by 2050, one in [...] Full text...
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Weather experts say more extreme weather events happening globally
05 may 2018 - 08:34:01Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Deadly storms in India and record temperatures in Pakistan are an indication that more extreme weather [...] Full text...
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Climate chaos to continue in 2018, UN chief warns
29 march 2018 - 19:02:11New York, US (PANA) - Climate change “is still moving much faster than we are,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres [...] Full text...
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2017 costliest year ever for extreme weather and climate events, says UN
22 march 2018 - 20:20:22Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Hurricanes, monsoon floods and continuing severe drought made 2017 the costliest year ever for severe weather [...] Full text...
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Near-record warm temperatures fuel deadly, costly weather events in 2017 – UN
18 january 2018 - 22:10:20Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The upward trend in global temperatures marked by record-shattering warmth in 2015 and 2016 kept pace [...] Full text...
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Arctic forever changed by rapidly warming climate – UN weather agency
20 december 2017 - 22:27:37Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The Arctic continued in 2017 to warm at double the rate of the global temperature increase, [...] Full text...
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UN conference closes with renewed urgency to tackle climate change
18 november 2017 - 04:56:41Bonn, Germany (PANA) - The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) wrapped up on Friday in Bonn, Germany, with delegations [...] Full text...
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Level of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere hits a record high in 800,000 Years - WMO report
30 october 2017 - 13:50:47Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere surged in 2016 to its highest level [...] Full text...
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Ethiopia: AMCOMET-Africa Hydromet Forum takes place in Ethiopia
03 august 2017 - 15:28:44Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Development Bank Group (AfDB), collaborating with other partners, is undertaking preparatory arrangements for [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: UN report paints bleak humanitarian outlook in Horn of Africa, Great Lakes region
07 july 2017 - 09:55:05Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - East Africa faces one of the biggest humanitarian crises in its history, the UN [...] Full text...
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Switzerland: UN agency launches video ‘forecasts’ on impact of climate change
05 july 2017 - 19:18:25Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – In a year already marked by heatwaves and new daily temperature records, the United Nations weather [...] Full text...
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Switzerland: UN weather agency says record high temperatures grip much of the globe
21 june 2017 - 05:51:50Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Extremely high May and June temperatures have broken records in parts of Europe, the Middle East, [...] Full text...
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Italy: 'World needs to pre-empt devastating drought impacts through better preparedness'
19 june 2017 - 12:04:50Rome, Italy (PANA) - Investing in preparedness and building the resilience of farmers is fundamental to facing situations of extreme [...] Full text...
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US: Help preserve land – our 'home and future' – UN
17 june 2017 - 14:02:38New York, US (PANA) – With hundreds of millions of people around the globe directly affected by desertification – the [...] Full text...
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Italy: FAO to organise seminar to better manage droughts
15 june 2017 - 08:48:06Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will on 19 June organise an event at its [...] Full text...
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Russia: Green economy is 'the economy of the future,' says UN chief
03 june 2017 - 03:59:22St. Petersburg, Russia (PANA) - Underscoring the threats posed by climate change – those already apparent, as well as those [...] Full text...
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Switzerland: Weather, climate and water challenges highlighted at WMO council meeting
10 may 2017 - 19:28:22Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Strengthening weather and climate services to protect lives, property and the economy from increasingly extreme and [...] Full text...
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UN: UN officials task governments on Paris climate change agreement
23 march 2017 - 21:12:10New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday in New York said climate change is an unprecedented [...] Full text...
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UN: World Meteorological Organization celebrates importance of clouds
23 march 2017 - 13:38:53New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says clouds inspire art and thought, but few natural [...] Full text...
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Switzerland: Record-breaking weather in 2016 pushes world into ‘truly uncharted territory’ – WMO
22 march 2017 - 07:00:40Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Global temperatures set yet another record last year and the world witnessed exceptionally low sea ice, [...] Full text...
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UAE: 'Make food systems climate resilient now or ...' - FAO warns
13 february 2017 - 21:06:28Dubai, UAE (PANA) - Failure to act now to make food systems more resilient to climate change will seriously compromise [...] Full text...
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Germany: FAO boss calls for more support to family farmers
23 january 2017 - 13:23:12Berlin, Germany (PANA) - In an era in which challenges like climate change and natural resource scarcity are making agriculture [...] Full text...
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Switzerland: WMO confirms 2016 as 'hottest year on record'
18 january 2017 - 18:25:10Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The year 2016 has been confirmed as the hottest year on record, surpassing the exceptionally high [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: WMO says 2016 set to break temperature records of 2015
14 november 2016 - 14:38:48Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - It is very likely that 2016 will be the hottest year on record, with [...] Full text...
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US: 'Past five years hottest on record,' says UN weather agency
09 november 2016 - 05:46:22New York, US (PANA) - In a new detailed analysis of the global climate between 2011 and 2015 – the [...] Full text...
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UN: Past five years hottest on record, says UN weather agency
08 november 2016 - 22:22:26New York, US (PANA) - In a new analysis of the global climate between 2011 and 2015, the hottest 5-year [...] Full text...
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UN: UN weather agency says global C02 concentration surges
25 october 2016 - 05:04:23New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has said globally averaged concentration of carbon dioxide (C02) [...] Full text...
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UN: Ethiopia needs urgent global support for agricultural season - FAO
15 august 2016 - 16:43:30New York, US (PANA) - Seasonal floods, resulting in crop damage and inundation of pastures, following a severe El Nino-induced [...] Full text...
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UN: Threat of wildfires expected to increase as global temperatures rise - UN
14 august 2016 - 16:02:52New York, US (PANA) - The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) has warned that wildfires could become more [...] Full text...
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UN: UN warns on heatwave deaths globally
28 july 2016 - 15:33:05New York, US (PANA) - The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) on Thursday warned of a possible rise [...] Full text...
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UN: WMO says 2016 on track to record hottest year
21 july 2016 - 18:08:55New York, US (PANA) - Global temperatures for the first six months of this year reached new highs, setting 2016 [...] Full text...
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Italy: UN agencies examine El Niño impacts in Africa, Asia/Pacific, gear up for La Niña
04 july 2016 - 14:18:34Rome, Italy (PANA) - The 2015-16 El Niño weather phenomenon has been one of the strongest and most widespread of [...] Full text...
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UN: WMO says April 2016 hottest month globally
20 may 2016 - 19:09:46New York, US (PANA) - Global temperature records were broken yet again in April for the 12th consecutive month, the [...] Full text...
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UN: UN official urges coherent global action to address El Nino weather impacts
13 may 2016 - 21:08:36New York, US (PANA) - The President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Mr. Oh Joon has stressed [...] Full text...
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Rwanda: AfDB pledges US$549 million for Eastern and southern Africa drought
04 april 2016 - 09:17:11Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Fourteen countries that are mostly affected by the ongoing drought in Eastern and Southern Africa will [...] Full text...
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UN: UN marks World Meteorological Day, urges bold climate action
23 march 2016 - 13:44:16New York, US (PANA) - The UN on Wednesday stressed the need for countries to take bold climate action in [...] Full text...
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Switzerland: UN calls for urgent measures to cut carbon emissions
22 march 2016 - 07:48:15Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Earth is already one degree Celsius hotter than at the start of the 20th century, [...] Full text...
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Switzerland: 'Women, girls should be at core of disaster risk reduction' - UN
01 march 2016 - 06:57:17Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Women and girls need to be at the core of disaster risk reduction, given that they [...] Full text...
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UN: El Niño passes 'peak' but impact to continue - WMO
18 february 2016 - 20:47:27New York, US (PANA) - The 2015-2016 El Niño, one of the strongest on record, has passed its peak, but [...] Full text...
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UN: Paris Agreement ‘decisive turning point’ on climate change - UN senior adviser
30 january 2016 - 07:29:22New York, US (PANA) - Less than two months after 196 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate [...] Full text...
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Switzerland: ‘2015 is hottest year on record’ – UN weather agency
26 january 2016 - 05:24:21Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The global average surface temperature in 2015 broke all previous records by a strikingly wide margin, [...] Full text...
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UN: 'Recent unusual weather worldwide calls for urgent preventive action' - UN official
29 december 2015 - 18:47:20New York, US (PANA) - Extreme tornadoes in the US over Christmas, abnormal snowfalls in Mexico, and heavy flooding in [...] Full text...
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UN: UN weather agency delivers 'bad news' for planet, cites record heat
25 november 2015 - 19:14:13New York, US (PANA) - In the last major report before world leaders meet in Paris to draft measures to [...] Full text...
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UN: WMO says greenhouse gas concentrations reaches another record high
09 november 2015 - 21:32:42New York, US (PANA) - The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Monday announced that the amount of greenhouse gases in [...] Full text...
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UN: WMO says first nine months of 2015 hottest on record
27 october 2015 - 16:25:41New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Tuesday said the January-September period was the hottest [...] Full text...
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UN: UN deputy chief urges more efforts to tackle water-related challenges
27 september 2015 - 20:32:53New York, US (PANA) - UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson on Sunday stressed the need for swift action on the [...] Full text...
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UN: WMO says first half of 2015 'hottest six months on record'
21 july 2015 - 22:04:59New York, US (PANA) - From January to June 2015, the globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces was [...] Full text...
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UN: First-ever heatwave warning guidelines issued by UN as global temperatures soar
02 july 2015 - 08:45:30New York, US (PANA) - Two UN agencies have unveiled a series of new guidelines aimed at addressing the health [...] Full text...
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UN: UN officials urge action to protect arable land
17 june 2015 - 19:32:57New York, US (PANA) - Land is a renewable resource, but only if investments are made in land degradation neutrality, [...] Full text...
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UN: UN meteorological forum moves to address global warming
26 may 2015 - 07:11:40New York, US (PANA) - With a welcoming 'tweet' from the International Space Station and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's renewed [...] Full text...
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UN: UN chief stresses need to mitigate climate change patterns
23 march 2015 - 18:26:28New York, US (PANA) – With extreme weather and changing climatic patterns taking a heavier toll on the planet, mitigating [...] Full text...
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Kenya: Experts recommend improved info systems to enhance weather forecast dissemination in Africa
11 march 2015 - 09:03:13Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - African governments should enhance the capacity of national meteorological services after it has been noticed that [...] Full text...
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Rwanda: Experts predict intense rainfall in Rwanda, Eastern African region
25 february 2015 - 16:00:09Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - An intense rainfall that could trigger flash floodings are expected in many parts of the Eastern [...] Full text...
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Rwanda: Sudanese appointed acting chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
24 february 2015 - 16:17:35Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Sudanese Ismail El Gizouli has been appointed acting chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [...] Full text...
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Kenya:Cape Verde hosts African Meteorology Conference
10 february 2015 - 10:50:12Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Ministers responsible for meteorology in Africa are meeting in Praia, Cape Verde, to coordinate and accelerate [...] Full text...
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UN: WMO says 21st century 'hottest' on record as global warming continues
03 february 2015 - 08:28:27New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says devastating weather patterns and increasing temperatures will last [...] Full text...
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Peru: 2014 predicated to be hottest year on record
03 december 2014 - 17:43:06Lima, Peru (PANA) - The year 2014 is on track to be one of the hottest, if not the hottest [...] Full text...
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UN: 'Every dollar invested in water, sanitation brings four-fold return in costs'
19 november 2014 - 19:10:41New York, US (ANA) - For every dollar invested in water and sanitation, there is a US$4.3 return in the [...] Full text...
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UN: Major UN climate conference focuses on special needs of women
05 november 2014 - 19:02:57New York, US (PANA) - A three-day conference focusing on strengthening the involvement of women in weather and climate services [...] Full text...
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US: Officials hail progress in reducing damage to Ozone layer
17 september 2014 - 08:44:06New York, US (PANA) - UN officials have hailed the progress made in reducing the damage to the Ozone layer [...] Full text...
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UN: WMO warns on surge of carbon dioxide concentration in atmosphere
09 september 2014 - 22:31:55New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Tuesday voiced concerns over the surge of carbon [...] Full text...
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UN: Global weather agency warns on rising greenhouse gas emission
27 may 2014 - 16:03:09New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has said that the concentration of carbon dioxide in [...] Full text...
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Zimbabwe: African Ministers for Meteorology seek to increase community resilience
22 may 2014 - 13:55:01Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Climate change, occasioned by severe weather and extreme climate events, is exacerbating multiple stresses such as [...] Full text...
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Gambia: 'Knowledge about weather, climate is crucial'
13 may 2014 - 21:26:09Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Advance knowledge about the weather and climate is crucial to all sectors, in particular for agriculture [...] Full text...
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Congo: Workshop on meteorology observation systems in Central Africa opens
30 april 2014 - 22:05:09Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – A five-day sub-regional workshop to adapt the meteorological information and observation systems (WIGOS-WIS) for Central Africa [...] Full text...
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UN: Ban welcomes latest climate report
14 april 2014 - 14:30:32New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the findings of a UN report on the mitigation [...] Full text...
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2013 among top 10 warmest years since 1850 – WMO
13 november 2013 - 15:50:39Warsaw, Poland (PANA) – A report released Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) at the UN Climate Change Conference [...] Full text...
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Greenhouse gas concentrations in atmosphere reach new record - WTO
06 november 2013 - 14:18:26Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2012, continuing [...] Full text...
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New UN report says 'unprecedented climate extremes' witnessed in 2001-2010
03 july 2013 - 18:10:12New York, US (PANA) - A new UN report, launched on Wednesday, said that the world experienced "unprecedented high-impact climate [...] Full text...
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WHO, WMO launch Atlas of Health, Climate
29 october 2012 - 13:26:18Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Monday jointly launched the [...] Full text...
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Atlas of health and climate for launch Monday
26 october 2012 - 12:54:10Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The first ever Atlas of Health and Climate, to illustrate the most pressing current and emerging [...] Full text...
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FAO plans events to mark World Water Day 2012
20 march 2012 - 11:45:11Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As the lead UN agency for World Water Day 2012, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) [...] Full text...
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