{"id":37682,"date":"2023-10-08T04:13:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T22:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=37682"},"modified":"2025-04-23T00:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T19:08:29","slug":"india-is-launching-a-national-framework-for-climate-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/india-is-launching-a-national-framework-for-climate-services\/","title":{"rendered":"India is launching a national framework for climate services"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in news?<\/li>\n<li>What is Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS)?<\/li>\n<li>News Summary: India is launching a national framework for climate services\n<ul>\n<li>What is NFCS?<\/li>\n<li>Why the NFCS is needed?<\/li>\n<li>NCFS in other countries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India is embarking on a major programme to launch its maiden national-level framework towards providing climate services and information.<\/li>\n<li>The National Framework for Climate Services (NFCS) is spearheaded by the India Meteorological Department (IMD).<\/li>\n<li>NFCS is based on the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS).<\/li>\n<li>It envisions to bring a seamless working platform for users of climate information and services, and help decide and mitigate climate risks for key sectors \u2014 agriculture, energy, disaster management, health and water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>What is Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Background<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The announcement to establish a GFCS was made during the third World Climate Conference held in Geneva in 2009.<\/li>\n<li>This framework is led by National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) in their respective nations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>About<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>GFCS is a partnership of governments and organisations at a global level, for the production and better usage of climate information and services.<\/li>\n<li>It aims to facilitate researchers and users of climate information and services to join hands in order to make informed and actionable decisions for the long-term betterment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Functions<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>GFCS envisages to generate high-quality data from national and international databases on temperature, rainfall, wind, soil moisture and ocean conditions and other vital weather parameters.<\/li>\n<li>This is aimed at creating long-term historical averages of these parameters, as well as maps, risk and vulnerability analyses, assessments and long-term projections and scenarios.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Five major components under GFCS<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>These are Observations and Monitoring, Research, Modelling and Prediction, Climate Services Information System, User Interface Platform and Capacity Building.<\/li>\n<li>At present, the priority sectors where the GFCS focuses upon are agriculture and food security, energy, health, water and disaster risk reduction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>News Summary: India is launching a national framework for climate services<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>What is NFCS?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>About<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>In lines with the global framework, the national framework will be based on country-specific weather and stakeholder needs.<\/li>\n<li>It will be a multi-stakeholder platform to enable the development and delivery of climate services.<\/li>\n<li>The goal of NFCS is to coordinate institutions so they can work together to: Co-design, Co-produce, Communicate, Deliver, Use climate.<\/li>\n<li>Along with the identified sectors of focus, India could add other relevant sectors like transport, tourism and other emerging sectors from time to time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal agency<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o The nodal agency for the formulation and implementation of the national framework in India will be the IMD.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Function<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Initially, the NFCS will work in bridging functioning gaps between the various agencies who require climate services.<\/li>\n<li>These include the hydrological, power, renewable energy, transport, dams and irrigation, health agencies are central, state and other levels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why the NFCS is needed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There remain many gap areas across terrains and the seas, wherein no weather data is available.<\/li>\n<li>There is a lack of long-term (100 years or more) climatological data from the Himalayan regions, the oceans, besides inexistence of radar and satellite-based climatology.<\/li>\n<li>With NFCS, the Met department aims to:\n<ul>\n<li>strengthen the observational network on land and the seas,<\/li>\n<li>improve the data inflow and eventually use it to run weather and climate models for deriving climate predictions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The climate data and information products will help identify agricultural production, health trends, population distribution in high-risk areas, road and infrastructure mapping for the delivery of goods and other socio-economic variables.<\/li>\n<li>The early implementation and acceleration of NFCS will be possible when planned in a mission-mode and is driven by the country\u2019s highest decision-making office.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NCFS in other countries<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Since the 2009 declaration of frameworks for climate services, Switzerland, China, Germany and the United Kingdom have launched the NFCS.<\/li>\n<li>With the first workshop organised recently in Pune, India has joined Cuba, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, etc. where the NFCS-related national consultation workshops are being planned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India will be soon releasing the statement of NFCS after consensus received from the key partnering stakeholders.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is India Meteorological Department (IMD)?<\/h3>\n<p>The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is the national meteorological service of India. It was established in 1875. The IMD is an agency of the Ministry of Earth Sciences.<\/p>\n<h3>Q2) What are climate services?<\/h3>\n<p>Climate services (CS) may be defined as scientifically based information and products that enhance users&#8217; knowledge and understanding about the impacts of climate on their decisions and actions.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-climate\/national-framework-for-climate-services-nfcs-8972568\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><u>Why India is launching a national framework for climate services<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gfcs.wmo.int\/national-frameworks-for-climate-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><u>Global Framework for Climate Services<\/u><\/a>\n<p>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFCS is a multi-stakeholder platform to enable the development and delivery of climate services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":37683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}