Geneva Declaration – 2019: Building Community for Weather, Climate and Water Actions
Statement
01 June 2019
We, the delegates from 160 Member States and Territories of the World
Meteorological Organization (WMO), meeting in Geneva from 3 to 14 June 2019
at the Eighteenth World Meteorological Congress, having considered:
- that the global societal risks related to extreme weather, climate, water and other
environmental events should be addressed through interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral partnerships, and
- that the expanding opportunities to use meteorological, climatological,
hydrological and related environmental information and services to inform critical
decisions can foster increased societal and structural resilience, and sustainable
economic development;