About WMO
WMO is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with 193 Member States and Territories. It is the UN system’s authoritative voice on the state and behaviour of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the land and oceans, the weather and climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.Activities by WMO
Global Initiative on Resilience to Natural Hazards through AI Solutions
Global GreeceItalySlovakiaSpainThe Global Initiative on Resilience to Natural Hazards through AI Solutions seeks to advance the use of AI and other emerging technologies in disaster management while ensuring it is safe, responsible, and effective. A core focus of the initiative is laying the foundation for international AI standards and best practices to guide the design, deployment, and governance of AI solutions for hazard detection, monitoring, response, and recovery. By convening expert working groups, workshops, collaborative challenges, and connecting the dots between standards and existing proof-of-concept projects connecting the dots between standards and existing proof-of-concept projects, initiative provides a platform for governments, industry, and civil society to contribute to interoperable, ethical, and inclusive AI frameworks. Through these standards-driven efforts, the initiative aims to strengthen resilience to natural hazards and support the UN’s broader goals of disaster management, sustainable development, and technological innovation.
Activity Type AI Tools/SolutionsTrainings/WorkshopsResearch/Reports/AssessmentsPolicy/Regulatory GuidanceAwareness/AdvocacyNetworks/Mentorship/ExchangeAI/ML Competitions (“Challenges”)
GlobalA flagship collaborative platform where thousands of students and professionals design and test AI models for real-world use cases, including communication networks and Geospatial AI. The challenges aim to strengthen technical capacities and contribute to ITU’s standards development.
Activity Type Trainings/workshopsTechnical assistanceResearch/Reports/AssessmentsThe Mediterranean and Pan-European Forecast and Early Warning System against Natural Hazards (MedEWSa) project
Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States GreeceSpainMedEWSa is an Innovation action (IA) project led by the Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) and a consortium of 30 partners. Building on existing tools, MedEWSa will develop a fully integrated impact-based multi-hazard early warning system (EWS). It will achieve advances beyond the state-of-the-art in the areas of AI-based decision support solutions for improved impact prediction, methods for impact prediction and early warnings, modelling and prediction of multiple hazard dynamics and their interdependencies. MedEWSa will explore hybrid methods combining data-driven approaches and the laws of physics, using tools learned from observations and physics-based model results. Ultimately, it will deploy an analysis to provide integrated, accurate, and rapid early warnings for the pan-European-Mediterranean-African region. MedEWSa will directly contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and align with the UN’s Early Warnings for All initiative. The project will also develop innovative financial solutions through risk transfer to capital markets. MedEWSa will also set out a roadmap for contributing to different standardisation activities to identify significant opportunities to push contributions into future standards, pre-normative activities, and open collaborative development environments.
Activity Type Research/Reports/AssessmentsPolicy/Regulatory GuidanceInfrastructure/Systems DevelopmentFocus Group AI for Natural Disaster Management (FG-AI4NDM)
GlobalThis Focus Group laid the groundwork for best practices in the use of AI for natural disaster management, including data collection, modeling, and communication. It concluded its work in 2024.
Activity Type Policy/Regulatory GuidanceResearch/Reports/Assessments