https://www.scmp.com/rss/511084/feed Professor Petteri Taalas is secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). He was previously director general of the Finnish Meteorological Institute from 2002–2005 and 2007–2015 and director of the WMO development and regional activities department from 2005–2007. He has a PhD in meteorology from the University of Helsinki. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Just a week before the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, three of the United Nations’ leading agencies on climate and development released alarming reports. The World Meteorological Organization has highlighted how greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2020. It found that concentrations of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere rose at a faster rate in 2020 than over the previous decade. The UN Environment Programme reports that new and updated... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3154116/cop26-how-plugging-data-gaps-will-transform-our-response-climate?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3154116/cop26-how-plugging-data-gaps-will-transform-our-response-climate?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 31 Oct 2021 01:15:19 +0000