World Climate Conference-3

The World Meteorological Organization and its partners convened the World Climate Conference-3 on 31 August 2009 to provide nations with the opportunity to jointly consider an appropriate global framework for climate services over the coming decades that would help ensure that every country and every climate-sensitive sector of society is well equipped to access and apply the growing array of climate prediction and information services, made possible by recent and emerging developments in international climate science and technology.

At the conference  Kofi Annan said that the world needs more innovative projects - such as putting weather stations on cellular phone towers across Africa - to help it better predict the increased hurricanes, tsunamis, droughts, and floods that climate change will bring. In a keynote speech, Annan said wealthy countries must provide large amounts of money, knowledge, and equipment to the developing world. He suggested a model should be the project announced in June by his Global Humanitarian Forum to install automated weather stations on mobile phone towers across Africa.