Empowering for impact

Climate Science Information for Climate Action: Enabling NMHSs in mobilizing climate and development finance

Climate science and information are critical to effective climate change decision-making processes and to the identification and design of climate investments, serving as key enablers for mobilizing climate and development finance. NMHSs’ data, knowledge and expertise are essential for informing climate-related national strategies, processes and investments. This must therefore be acknowledged and NMHSs empowered to effectively fulfil this pivotal role. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and WMO have in the past collaborated to provide the international community with new science-based climate information and tools based on NMHSs’ authoritative data and expertise to strengthen climate change decision-making.

The Alliance will scale up technical and capacity development support to empower NMHSs as critical actors in national climate decision-making, ensuring national strategies, activities and investments are grounded in robust climate science. Such support recognizes the crucial importance of empowering NMHSs to engage and inform national policymaking and decision-making for climate change action, including for mobilizing climate finance, seeing as climate science and information should fundamentally shape climate-related decisions and investments. Members will ensure that pipeline proposals are linked through the Climate Science Information for Climate Action (CSICA) initiative, and they will work together to support countries and regions and their direct access entities (DAEs) to mobilize climate financing.

Advocating for sustainable national funding

Sustained investment in hydrometeorological services is essential for building resilience to climate change, reducing disaster risks and achieving sustainable development goals at the global, regional and national level. The Alliance remains dedicated to advocating for sustainable national funding for hydrometeorological development and operations, and engaging with governments, policymakers and stakeholders. By emphasizing the economic, social and environmental benefits of investing in hydrometeorological infrastructure and capacity building, the Alliance will underscore the cost‑effectiveness of early warning systems, disaster preparedness measures and climate adaptation strategies. Through these efforts, the Alliance strives to foster widespread recognition of the importance of sustained investment in hydrometeorological services for national resilience-building efforts, disaster risk reduction and the attainment of sustainable development goals at the country level.