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Meteorology It’s more important than we think Interview with Elena Manaenkova, Assistant Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization and candidate for the post of Secretary-General  

    When you think about meteorology, all you want to know is whether the sun will come out tomorrow –– rarely do you realise that it’s a highly scientific profession that spans the whole globe every moment of the day and night. Here in Geneva we are very fortunate to have the World Meteorological Organization –– WMO. However, it is so specialized and technical that perhaps we do not understand the importance and implications of its work. The…

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Modest global growth set to continue for rest of year, says UN economic report

22 May 2015 – A new United Nations report released today says that modest paced global economic growth continues, and predicts a gradual improvement in the situation over the second half of 2015 and into next year. According to the UN World Economic Situation and Prospects Update as of mid-2015report, launched earlier this week, growth of world gross domestic product (GDP) will improve slightly from 2.6 per cent in 2014 to 2.8 per cent in 2015, which is 0.3…

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