The Director of the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (inclusion of Meteorology and precisely weather and climate, in the established Specialized Technical Committees of the African Union, is vital AMCOMET) Secretariat in Geneva, Dr Joseph Romanus Mukabana, has stressed the inclusion of Weather and Climate Services in STC, reports NaijaAgroNet.

 

Dr. Mukabana made this known at the sideline of the newly inaugurated STC and underscored the importance of inclusion of Meteorology, saying that Weather and Climate information and Services provided by the WMO National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) in the amelioration of impacts of natural disasters caused by Weather and Climate extremes to the vulnerable communities in Africa.

 

Mukabana, who doubles as Director of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Office for Africa and Least Developed Countries (AFLCD), noted thatWeather and Climate information and services provided by the WMO National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) in the amelioration of impacts of natural disasters caused to the vulnerable communities in Africa, could not be overlooked.

 

“The inclusion of Meteorology and precisely weather and climate, in the establishedSpecialized Technical Committees of the African Union, is vital,” he declared.

This, he explained is imperative, considering their importance to human lives in the region.

He also expressed the hope that this suggestion by WMO would be considered by STC to afford Weather and Climate issues assume a cardinal part of theoperational modality of the Union (AU)”, he maintained.

NaijaAgroNet recalled that in April 2010, the first Conference of Ministers Responsible for Meteorology in Africa, through the Nairobi Declaration, established the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) as a high-level policy mechanism for the development of meteorology and its applications in Africa. AMCOMET is the inter-governmental authority on Meteorology in Africa.