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- Michel Jarraud and Jean Jouzel
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- WMO World Met Day, 23 March
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- Abstract
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- Weather forecasts and hydrological
information are a part of daily life in industrial countries
but are largely absent from developing countries.
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- Recent studies underline that
hydro-meteorological information can yield economic and social benefits, as well as gains in terms of security
and quality of life. This is true for industrialized countries,
as well as for developing and emerging countries.
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- Investing in
this sector seems thus to
be a good way of accelerating the economic development and growth,
and of alleviating poverty.
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- This symposium gathered the
experts and
operational managers to discuss
the financial and technical needs to produce quality information
(observations and forecast), and the assessment of the social
and economic benefits of these services, in various economic
sectors such as: Heath, Risk
management, Insurance, Industry,
Energy, Agriculture…
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- Also, the symposium discussed
the solutions and options to develop sustainable hydro-meteorological
services.
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- Venue
- World Meteorological Organization HQ.
- Room A (ground floor)
- 7bis, Av. dela Paix
Geneva - Switzerland
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- Scientific Committee
- PRESIDENTS
Jean
JOUZEL
SMF | LSCE-IPSL | Member
IPCC
Stéphane
HALLEGATTE
SMF | Météo-France
| CIRED | The World Bank.
- MEMBERS
Martin
BENISTON
University of Geneva
- Christian
BLONDIN
WMO
- Pierre ECKERT Meteo Swiss
Marianne
FAY The World Bank
Serge
JANICOT Lab.d'océanographie
et du climat
Jeffrey
LAZO
NCAR
- Claude NAHON EDF Électricité de France
- Alain PODAIRE Mercator-Océan
- Alain RATIER Eumetsat (tbc)
David
ROGERS
Health and Climate Foundation
- Youba SOKONA
Centre Africain de Politique
Climatique
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- AGENDA
Symposium
hosted by Dominique Schibli (RTS, Switzerland)
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- Links on speakers name indicate
that the presentations can be downloaded in PDF
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- 9:00am
- OFFICIAL
OPENING
- Michel Jarraud, Secretary General WMO (tbc),
- Sandrine Salerno, Conseillère administrative de
la Ville de Genève,
Jean Jouzel, president Société météorologique
de France, member of IPCC bureau.
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- 9:15am
- KEYNOTE
- Development, climate
and hydro-met services
- Seleshi Bekele (African Climate Policy Center, Ethiopia)
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- SESSION
1
- What are the socio-economic
& development benefits from better Hydro-Meteorological information?
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- 10:00am
- 1a) Health
and Disaster risk reduction
- Hosted by
Serge Janicot (Laboratoire
d'océanographie et du climat)
- Talks (15 minutes):
Debarati Guha-Sapir (CRED Center for Research on the Epidemiology
of Disasters, Belgium)
Jacques-André Ndione (CSE Centre
de Suivi Ecologique, Senegal)
- Discussion launched by Josef Hess (Federal Office for the Environment,
Switzerland)
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- 11:00am
- 1b) Industry
and Energy
- Hosted by
Kanta Kumari (World
Bank)
- Talks (15 minutes) :
Thomas Frei
(MeteoSwiss)
Randall Spalding-Fecher (Poyry Management
Consulting, South Africa)
- Discussion launched by Gilles Verdan (GazNat, Switzerland)
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- 12:00pm
- Lunch with support of Canton de Genève
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- 2:00pm
- 1c) Agriculture
and Water
- Hosted by
Martin Beniston (University
Geneva)
- Talks (15 minutes) :
Ousmane Ndiaye
(ANAMS Agence Nationale de la de la Météorologie,
Senegal)
Benjamin Sultan (IRD - LOCEAN / IPSL Laboratoire
d'Océanographie et du Climat, France)
Discussion launched by Martin Beniston (University
Geneva)
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- 3:00pm
- SESSION
2
- How to develop sustainable
hydro-meteorological services?
- Round Table :
- Abdou Ali (AGRHYMET, Niger)
- Maryam Golnaraghi (World
Meteorological Organization)
- Kanta Kumari (World Bank)
Caroline Wittwer (SCHAPI Service Central d'Hydrométéorologie
et d'Appui à la Prévision des Inondations | BRGM,
France)
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- 4:30pm
- CONCLUSION
- Stéphane
Hallegatte
(SMF | Météo-France
| CIRED | The World Bank, France)
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- 5:00pm
- Symposium ends
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- Profile of the participants
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- - Meteorologists, Hydrologists,
Climatologists,
- Sustainable Development Leads & Civil Society members
- Political representatives and local authorities,
- Journalists, Weather Presenters (TV & Radio) from all around
the world
- Researchers, teachers and students
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