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GHACOF 70: Climate Services for Closing the Early Warning Gap Together
The IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC), in collaboration with partners, is organising the 70th Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF 70) to be held from the 19th to 20th of May 2025 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Hybrid format).
Theme: Climate Services for Closing the Early Warning Gap Together
This forum will bring together climate scientists, policymakers, researchers, development partners, private sector and sectoral users to:
- Reflect on the performance and impacts of the March to May 2025 season.
- Present the regional climate outlook for the June-September 2025 season.
- Discuss the implications of the JJAS 2025 climate …
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Energy and Climate Change
The burning of fossil fuels and deforestation has led to levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that are higher today than any time in the last past 2 million years. Since the global emissions …

Press Briefing: Ten climate change impacts in East Africa you didn’t know about
Virtual media briefing with Abubakr Salih Babiker, Climate Scientist from the World Meteorological Organisation and Alex Crook, East Africa Regional Climate Adviser for the UK government.
Over the past year alone, we’ve seen failed rains, …

IGAD Bi-annual Meeting on Food Security and Nutrition
The food security situation in the IGAD region remains extremely concerning. Based on the most recent report by the Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG), an estimated 29 million people in seven of the …

Forecast Based Agricultural Advisories and Media Engagement
ICPAC and Uganda National Meteorological Agency (UNMA) of Uganda, in collaboration with WMO, and FAO under ACREI project will hold a virtual Participatory Scenario Planning (PSP) workshop for Isingiro and Sembabule districts, for October to …

Climate Finance for East Africa
Despite the existence of various funding mechanisms, developing country parties benefit little due to several constraints including lack of awareness of the existence or functioning of funding mechanisms, and inadequate capacity to write targeted project …

Pre-GHACOF59 Climate Change Workshop
The recommendations by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) for regional climate centres to integrate climate change information into GHACOF to enable the access and use of this information for medium- to long-term decision making is …