2025 - Celebrating 75 Years of WMO Science for Action

05 November 2024

WMO will be celebrating the Organization’s 75th anniversary in 2025.

By WMO Secretary-General Professor Celeste Saulo

WMO – its 193 Members and its Secretariat – will be celebrating the Organization’s 75th anniversary as a specialized agency of the United Nations in 2025. The WMO Convention was enacted on 23 March 1950, creating the World Meteorological Organization which officially became a specialized agency of the United Nations exactly a year from that date. Since then, the scientific work of WMO, through its network of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services and research institutions, has provided high-quality weather data and forecasts and climate assessments and projections for policy and sustainable socioeconomic development and related weather, water, climate and environmental warnings to better protect populations. The work of WMO has highlighted the need for global action to the threat of climate change.

Through perseverance and dedication, WMO Members have created, maintained and extended the Earth system observation network and shared the collected data, have continuously improved and refined forecasting and services, have improved capacity through knowledge sharing and have invested in further research and development. So much has been achieved that listing them all would fill this entire Bulletin.

Let’s just recall the World Climate Conferences:

Today many challenges lay ahead. Climate change is impacting our lives, early warnings are a priority to save lives and mitigate disaster risk, and more science and research is needed to further improve the quality of forecasts and to guide policy and decision-making. It is important, therefore, that WMO Members and Secretariat take the time in 2025 to pay tribute to the technicians, meteorologists, hydrologists, climatologists and researchers in various fields who have made a difference in our lives over the last 75 years and who face these challenges full on.

World Meteorological Organization logo with a 75th anniversary emblem reading "1950-2025 Science for Action".
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