ACMAD recherche 01 Short Term Expert in Climate services
ACMAD
Niamey, Niger
Published 5 days ago · Expires 1 month from now
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L'entreprise ACMAD ouvre un poste pour renforcer ses équipes.
Niger
ACMAD recrute 01 Short Term Expert in Climate services
ACMAD recrute 01 Short Term Expert in Climate services
African Center of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD)
Niger
Date of advertisement: 17/03/2022 Deadline: 31/03/2022Position: Short Term Expert in Climate servicesA. BackgroundThe adverse impact of climate change is a major challenge to socio-economic development globally. The African countries are particularly vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, including water stress and scarcity, food insecurity, diminished hydropower generation potential, loss of biodiversity and ecosystem degradation, increased incidence of disease burden, destruction of infrastructure and high costs of disaster management as a result of increased frequency and intensity of droughts, floods, hot days and landslides.
The vulnerability is due to multiple existing stresses, from low adaptive capacity to intrinsic exposure to climate change, due to geographical conditions. Reliable information on climate change and variability can build resilience to climate impacts, saving lives, stopping and reversing desertification and improving livelihoods. Science-based climate information is critical for ACP countries to increase their resilience for adapting to climate change by addressing timely and effectively climate risks.The Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) was established in 2009 at the World Climate Conference-3 organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to strengthen production, availability, delivery and application of science-based climate prediction and services.The Paris Agreement makes specific reference to climate services by calling on parties to strengthen “scientific knowledge on climate, including early warning systems, in a manner that informs climate services and supports decision-making”. The action supports partner countries with credible and reliable information for decision makers to ensure the implementation of their NDCs as well as their National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Paris Agreements recognizes that the adverse effects of climate change have a range of direct and indirect implications for the effective enjoyment of human rights and that the effects of climate change will be felt most acutely by those segments of the population that are already vulnerable. It calls for a gender-sensitive, participatory, and fully transparent approach.Enabling access to climate information and providing user-friendly climate services will help decision makers at all levels, including end users, in a wide range of sectors including agriculture and food security, disaster risk reduction, sustainable water and health, development and implementation of climate change adaptation strategies to...
Niger
ACMAD recrute 01 Short Term Expert in Climate services
ACMAD recrute 01 Short Term Expert in Climate services
African Center of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD)
Niger
Date of advertisement: 17/03/2022 Deadline: 31/03/2022Position: Short Term Expert in Climate servicesA. BackgroundThe adverse impact of climate change is a major challenge to socio-economic development globally. The African countries are particularly vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, including water stress and scarcity, food insecurity, diminished hydropower generation potential, loss of biodiversity and ecosystem degradation, increased incidence of disease burden, destruction of infrastructure and high costs of disaster management as a result of increased frequency and intensity of droughts, floods, hot days and landslides.
The vulnerability is due to multiple existing stresses, from low adaptive capacity to intrinsic exposure to climate change, due to geographical conditions. Reliable information on climate change and variability can build resilience to climate impacts, saving lives, stopping and reversing desertification and improving livelihoods. Science-based climate information is critical for ACP countries to increase their resilience for adapting to climate change by addressing timely and effectively climate risks.The Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) was established in 2009 at the World Climate Conference-3 organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to strengthen production, availability, delivery and application of science-based climate prediction and services.The Paris Agreement makes specific reference to climate services by calling on parties to strengthen “scientific knowledge on climate, including early warning systems, in a manner that informs climate services and supports decision-making”. The action supports partner countries with credible and reliable information for decision makers to ensure the implementation of their NDCs as well as their National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Paris Agreements recognizes that the adverse effects of climate change have a range of direct and indirect implications for the effective enjoyment of human rights and that the effects of climate change will be felt most acutely by those segments of the population that are already vulnerable. It calls for a gender-sensitive, participatory, and fully transparent approach.Enabling access to climate information and providing user-friendly climate services will help decision makers at all levels, including end users, in a wide range of sectors including agriculture and food security, disaster risk reduction, sustainable water and health, development and implementation of climate change adaptation strategies to...