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• Climate change increases global burnt area

  A new international study has revealed climate change is contributing to an increase in wildfires worldwide, despite human interventions trying to temper this trend.

  The study - led by a team of scientists from the Met Office and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)  -compares wildfire models with and without the effects of climate change. It shows that in many regions the frequency and intensity of wildfires is increasing, especially in sensitive ecosystems

• global-climate-outlook---june-2025.pdf

  Climate Outlook Global: March to December Global: Monthly Climate Outlook March to December Issued: June 2025 Overview Current Status Outlooks Annex 1 – Supplemental Information Climate Outlook Global: March to December Overview MENA, Caribbean and British Overseas Territories Current Status

• Supporting the development of user-based climate services

  ASPIRE – Adaptive Social Protection - Information for Enhanced Resilience Overview • ASPIRE will integrate climate information into social protection decision making in the Sahel so that it can become responsive to climate shocks. For example, increasing regular cash payments to vulnerable

• An assessment of food security and climate change in Sudan

  Details of the World Food Programme and Met Office study into the relationship between long-term climate change and future food security.

  Download the full food security and climate change assessment for Sudan here. Sudan lies at the northern most extent of the band of tropical rains known as the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone. This means it has a strong gradient of rainfall, ranging from extremely dry conditions in the north

• World’s oceans capturing unrelenting climate change

  The world’s oceans are charting the unrelenting progress of climate change says a new global report: The State of the Climate in 2021.

  The 32nd annual State of the Climate report – published today by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society – shows that two marine-related measures – ocean heat content and global sea level rise – were the highest on record last year. Scientists measure climate change by a number

• east-africa-climate-risk-report-final.pdf

  Climate risk report for the East Africa region Authors: Katy Richardson, Roger Calow, Florence Pichon, Stacey New, and Rebecca Osborne Reviewers: Richard Jones, Jane Strachan, Kirsty Lewis, Mandar Trivedi, and Leah Mwai Recommended citation: Richardson, K., Calow, R., Pichon, F., New, S

• climate-of-central-africa-summary-infographic-portuguesepdf

• africa-climate-outlook---march-2024.pdf

  Climate Outlook Africa: December to September AFRICA: Monthly Climate Outlook December to September Issued: March 2024 Overview Current Status Outlooks Annex 1 – Supplemental Information Climate Outlook Africa: December to September Overview Africa Current Status and Outlook – Temperature Africa

• Creating a five-year window into future climate

  Providing annually-updated five-year climate predictions at global and continental scales is the focus of a new international science collaboration co-ordinated by the WMO and led by the UK’s Met Office.

  (1850-1900). The last five-year period has been the warmest five years on record.  This year’s five-year climate forecasts predicts that: there is now a 20% chance of the world temporarily reaching 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels in one of the next five years there will be further enhanced warming of the Arctic compared to other regions increased risk of storminess across the Atlantic basin

• Met Office climate scientist awarded an OBE

  Professor Jason Lowe, Head of Climate Services at the Met Office, is a world-leading expert in climate science. His work has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2020, where he was awarded an OBE.

  Professor Lowe’s work has helped the UK and other countries plan for and respond to the impacts of climate change, directly shaping national and international policy and informing vital decisions to protect businesses and communities. He has pioneered a more collaborative approach to climate