Africa ministerial conference of meteorology (AMCOMET)

Organizer(s) World Meteorological Organization (WMO) United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa

Format

In person

Venue

Elephant hill Hotel

Date

15 October 2012 - 19 October 2012

During AMCOMET one session will be co organised by WMO and UNISDR on Climate services and DRR

The AMCOMET Panel Discussion entitled, 'Weather and Climate Services in Support of Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa' aims to link weather and climate knowledge to disaster risk reduction decision making process and discuss how to improve weather and climate products and their dissemination to render them useful to end-users of all levels.

Goals of the Session

The goals of this session are to:

identify experiences which can serve as best practices,
discuss ways to improve weather and climate products to support decision making
clarify the roles of relevant partners to increase synergies in complementary disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation programmes.

Source

http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/pr_959_en.html