Against odds, Africa’s met offices set global example

Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 13:30

[WARSAW] Africa’s national meteorological centres have led the way in regional cooperation on climate research, showing the world how to provide usable information from scant resources, a side event at the UN climate summit has heard.
 
But despite this pioneering work, underfunding and political indifference severely limits their ability to assist efforts to adapt to climate change, experts have said in Warsaw, Poland, where the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Conference of the Parties (COP19) is taking place.  Full Article

Source:  SciDev