Maputo, 23 Aug (AIM) – The Mozambican government needs 65 million dollars to improve the country’s early warning system against extreme climate events, under the program known as Early Warning For All.
The Early Warnings for All program, which was launched by the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, “is a groundbreaking initiative to ensure that everyone on Earth is protected from hazardous weather, water, or climate events through life-saving early warning systems by the end of 2027.”
The same initiative was launched, on Wednesday, in Mozambique by President Filipe Nyusi, in order to raise awareness about the need to use early warning measures to reduce human suffering at moments of natural disasters.
According to the director-general of the National Meteorological Institute (INAM), Adérito Aramuge, speaking this Thursday, in Maputo, at the launch of the country’s first meteorological balloon, the amount needed is aimed at strengthening various multi-sector pillars, with emphasis on early warning systems and risk knowledge, an action under the remit of the country’s relief agency, the National Disaster Management Institute (INGD).
“With the money, the Mozambican government intends, among various projects, to build four high-altitude stations for atmospheric observation, with the aim of collecting the information needed to prepare weather forecasts and build the resilience of communities that have been vulnerable to the effects of climatic events”, he said.
He also said that Mozambique recently received funding worth 7.4 million dollars for a meteorological observation system, “and it will be used to build the altitude stations in Maputo city, and in Beira, Tete and Nampula.”
He also said that the country’s 21 weather stations will form part of the meteorological observation network that the World Meteorological Organization has already designed.
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