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Attendees

  • WMO-SG

  • Staff 

  • Secretary General Professor Celeste Saul

  • WMO-Staff World Meteorological Organisation All Staff meeting HQ + Regional Offices 

  • WMO-G3W responsible Gianpaolo Balsamo

Goals

  • Messages from 1st SG Townhall with relevance for G3W

Discussion items

TimeItemWhoNotes
50min

1st Townhall

Celeste

Townhall SG Keynote Contents

  1. Brief presentation. Who is Celeste Saulo
  2. Building from our strengths, identifying our current limitations
  3. What kind of Organization do we aspire to be? Transforming words into action I
  4. Empowering regions:Transforming words into actions II
  5. Key aspects of leading flagship initiatives
  6. Staff wellness at the heart of a Secretariat motivated to serve others

Who I am

  • PhD in Atmospheric Sciences -
    University of Buenos Aires- Argentina
  • Professor at the UBA (30 years) - Head of Research Group
  • Director of the National Meteorological
    Service of Argentina (9 years)
  • WMO EC member, 2nd VP, 1st VP

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    		Celeste WMO-SG

    Core Values & Key points

    (Since 2015)

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    WMO strengths

    UN specialized agency with clear mandate: climate-weather-water-environment. We work based on science and solid information.

    • Long history engaging with country Members:
    • monitoring the earth system
    • sharing information
    • defining best practices
    • supporting operational and critical services,
    • promoting targeted science to improve infrastructure, service delivery and policymaking
    • contributing to capacity development, seeking to reduce the development gaps

    Climate change, water and food security, energy transition, sustainability ARE CORE ISSUES for every country. Are core issues for HUMANITY. We are privileged to work for WMO.

    Our current limitations

    within the organization

    1. Working in silos
    2. Lack of trust
    3. Too vertical
    4. Too bureaucratic

    Our current limitations outside the organization:

    1. Slow at implementing
    2. Weak/loose interaction with partners and UN family Limited visibility
    3. Members not always on board

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    5minQ&AGianpaolo WMO-G3W

    Introduction: Dear SG, thank you for a compelling & inspiring talk.

    This resonates

    It resonated with me as leadership by example.

     Two questions and observations from me:While I and the G3Whttps://www.science.org/content/blog-post/

    The G3W-Team salute with enthusiasm a new era of Climate Action Support & Assessment (our CASA) at WMO. 

    Three questions or observations from me (from G3W perspectives):

    1. What level of protection do you envisage for the communication aspects that can become target of organised actions. The example I can bring is the
    Climate Gate in 2010.
    1. climategate-and-scientific-conduct

    WEF short term risk number
    1. case of 2010. Moreover, WEF identified that the short-term (2-year) risk number-1 is Misinformation & Disinformation. Digital
    &
    1. and Legal protections might be
    needed
    1. important assets for the New Era? Possibly Internal Training on Public Speaking on Climate Stakeholders might be helpful?
    1. The risks of us using ChatGPT to speed-up communication for instance could entail Copyright infringment as in the New-York-Times-lawsuit?
    2. How can we succeed in working
    Working
    1. beyond NMHSs with Nations and working with the UNFCCC entities (see: G3W-UNFCCC-Reporting-Agencies (external link)) that are responsible for
    the
    1. GHGs Inventories and the National Determine Contributions
    , may require some
    1. . Possibly creative thinking is needed here as sometimes the “silos” working styles
    has
    1. have also secular ministerial roots. Those roots cannot will not be eradicated but may need some "clever gardeners" that
    can
    1. trim and save the
    plants
    1. plant, and nurture it
    and
    1. , so that when the spring season come
    have
    1. there might be flowers in blossom?
    What about contraddictoty SDGs
    1. During and after your inspiring talk and in the Q&A there was reference to the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs. What about potential contraddictions of the SDGs (see Chakraborty 2023 Nature) ? For instance SDG-1 and
    SDG-13 
    1. 2 could sometimes be contraddictory with SDG-13, a clear example are poor rural community with access to natural resources such as coal or wood harvest of primary forests, that could potentially lift from poverty and hunger (in SDG-1 and 2 compliance) but will cause harm to the Climate and Environment. In absence of clarity that SDG-13 is "Our golden goal", and some mechanisms of compensation and incentives to not extract coal and to not allow logging of primary forests, our communication will need to be mindful of the reality of poor and deprived areas that cannot comply with SDG-13 if they are left behind. And we know that, for the success of SDG-13, no one should be left behind.

    Action items

    •  Gianpaolo to discuss with Communications experts to investigate Training for Public Speaking for Climate-Change  
    •  Gianpaolo to send the Cambridge University Climate to Clare and Brigitte by  
    •  Gianpaolo to share & discuss these considerations with Celested by