Climate forum discusses ways to help improve Weather Office services

Discussions on how to work climate messaging and better delivery of mete­orological services are being currently held at Tanoa Plaza in Suva between all stakeholders.

The three-day stakeholder con­sultation workshop is for devel­oping a national implementation plan for enhanced climate ser­vices. This first national climate outlook forum started yesterday.

It is expected that participation of stakeholders will facilitate the identification of appropriate mechanisms to improve and sus­tain the flow of climate informa­tion to different users in Fiji.

Fiji Meteorological Services (FMS) director Ravind Kumar said the World Meteorological Organisation had recognised the importance of climate services in providing information that can save life, property and suf­fering.

“We are gathered for a very important purpose which is to assist in the compilation of the climate services implementation plan for FMS,” he said.

“Fiji through FMS is committed to advance and implement key pillars of the Global Framework for Climate Services at the na­tional level and start a dialogue so that climate services and prod­ucts remain relevant to a wide variety of users and sectors.

“This will assist in planning, policy formulation and better managing the risk arising from climate variability and change,” Mr Kumar said.

Edited by Jonathan Bryce

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