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Making climate information work for agricultural development

In 2009, at the WMO’s World Climate Conference 3 in Geneva, delegates representing 155 nations called for a Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) “to strengthen the production, availability, delivery and application of science-based climate prediction and services.” Given that the climate is changing and the past is no longer an adequate indication of the future climate, the GFCS builds on the experience of weather services, with a focus on using seasonal and longer-term, inherently probabilistic information to manage climate-related risk. A High-Level Task Force recently released a report (.pdf) that outlines priorities and a plan that is to be implemented as a U.N. process. The priority is to strengthen climate observations and address gaps in climate services in vulnerable developing countries, in support of climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture, disaster risk reduction, health and water. Though the report highlights climate data as a core principle, it takes a rather weak position, limiting itself to stating, “The Framework should promote the free and open exchange of climate data while respecting existing data policies.”