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Catalyst 2030 Awards finalist
27 September 2023
African Center for Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) is
announced as a Finalist in this year’s Catalyst 2030 Awards to celebrate systems
change allies
Email: contact@acmad.org
ACMAD expressed at high level segment different efforts to accelerate quick systemic change to address SDGs with emphasis on the climate challenge.
ACMAD participates at COP 28 as Intergovernmental Organization and supports African Negotiator by providing Climate Information and trend over the African continent.
AT COP 28, ACMAD will organize four side events to emphasis the impact of Climate Change at Continental level.
Emirates Arabes
COP 28
DUBAI 2023
DUBAI 2023
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Progress:
ACMAD operates the Regional Climate Centre (RCC) for all Africa since 2015, and the Continental Multihazard Advisory Centre (CMHAC) since October 2022. These centres support NMHSs with advisories and climate information services for early warning and adaptation to climate change.
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Challenge:
2023 locations of storms and cyclones were anticipated but we are still challenged by substantial disaster losses because early warnings lack potential impact outlooks and related anticipatory actions.
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Solutions:
The priorities to reduce losses and damages include better interfaces between meteorologists and disaster risk reduction communities and strengthening of Disaster Risk Reduction frameworks under the Seindai agreement. Mandatory ad-hoc briefings ahead and debriefing post disasters to share lessons and improve stakeholders coordination.
Catalyst 2030 Awards finalist
27 September 2023
African Center of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) is
announced as a Finalist in this year’s Catalyst 2030 Awards to celebrate systems change allies
Email: contact@acmad.org
Statements
1- 2023 is very likely to follow 2016 as the second year in the record since 1979 with the highest number of extremely hot days in Africa .
Based on Copernicus ERA-5 temperature dataset for the January to October period
2- The very long duration Cyclone FREDDY hit the Indian ocean and southern African countries in February-march 2023
3- A devastating storm Daniel generated unprecedented losses and damages in Libya in September 2023
Frequency of extremely hot days for Africa since 1979. 2016 had the highest number of very hot days followed by 2023.
Period: January to October
Temperature data source: ERA-5
