"HYDROLOGY"

Ahead of COP 28, beginning at the end of the month in Dubai, Secretary-General António Guterres traveled to China and Nepal during the month of October to highlight the urgency of reducing emissions to combat climate change. UNIFEED / FILE

According to the World Meteorological Organization, more early warnings are needed with the global hydrological cycle out of control. UNTV CH

Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, said that negative trends in weather patterns may continue until the 2060s “independently of our success in climate mitigation.” UNTV CH

Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, said that water “is the element that connects 90 percent of disasters around the world. And with climate change, it is increasingly difficult for communities to manage water-related disaster risks.” UNIFEED

The Global Commission on the Economics of Water calls for a new, collective approach to water and bold actions to secure a just and sustainable future for all. UNIFEED

“Today we have 2,3 billion inhabitants of the planet which are suffering from water challenges, and by 2050 we expect to see up to 5 billion people suffering from those,” said Professor Petteri Taalas, WMO’s Secretary-General. UNTV CH

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke at Viet Nam’s Meteorological and Hydrological Administration about disaster preparedness and said the goal is to have early warning systems in all countries of the world within five years, “to end the tragedy of people dying, livelihoods being destroyed, because people did not know that tragedy was unfolding.” UN VIET NAM

Climate change and increasingly extreme weather events have caused a surge in natural disasters over the past 50 years disproportionately impacting poorer countries, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) said on Wednesday. UNTV CH

The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Horn of Africa, Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, told the Security Council that despite various attempts at negotiations between Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Sudan, “the parties have been unable to agree on a framework of engagement to settle the remaining contentious issues” related to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). UNIFEED

“Relatively cold February does not negate the long-term warming trend from climate change,” a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) spokesperson told reporters in Geneva. UNTV CH