The US is at risk of losing leverage over a crucial UN agency

The US is at risk of losing leverage over a crucial UN agency

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is not the most well-known organization in the United Nations system. The lack of notoriety is a feature, not a bug. Unlike some other parts of the U.N., the WMO mandate is to focus on data rather than policy advocacy. Specifically, the WMO is a technical agency for coordinating and sharing atmospheric and oceanic data used to forecast weather events, track freshwater availability, and support civil av…