Ibero-American Community to evaluate projections of climate change

Caracas, Nov 23 ABN.- Representatives from all the countries of the Ibero-American meteorological community are to meet, since Monday, with instructors from Spain and Argentina so as to evaluate the projections of climate change at a regional context.

The above information was issued by the permanent representative of the World Meteorological Organization to Venezuela, brigadier Ramon Viñas, during the opening of the III Encounter on Generation of Sceneries on Climate Change Regionally, which took place in Miranda state, Venezuela.

Therefore, he explained that the aim is to maintain a continual process of periodic revision over the projections with the best information coming from global models, the best observations and the best techniques of regionalization.

According to Viñas, this initiative aims at strengthening the capacities and devising adaptation policies to reduce the negative impacts and maximize the positive impacts.

“These kind of encounters allow that the most sensitive sectors (water, agricultural, forest, ecology/biodiversity, energy, among other resources) adopt necessary tools and strengthen their capacities,” he detailed.

On the other hand, the president of the Venezuelan Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (Inameh, for Spanish), Jose Gregorio Sottolano, expressed that this encounter is to be carried out up to next Wednesday Nov. 25.

Moreover, Sottolano recalled that the above mentioned activity has been organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the State Meteorological Agency from Spain.

“It is an encounter that takes place yearly, aiming at training the human resource of the Ibero-American Program of Cooperation in Meteorology and Hydrology,” he said.