Amid calls for greater investment in climate services for health to meet escalating needs, WMO has welcomed major financial contributions from the philanthropic sector, namely Wellcome and the Rockefeller Foundation, to strengthen coordinated action and programmes. 

At the World Health Summit in Berlin, Wellcome announced a US$25 million grant for World Health Organisation (WHO) activities on the health effects of climate change, with an additional US$6 million going to WMO.  The grant will support WMO’s joint climate and health programme with WHO, aiming to ensure that the health sector is able to access and use authoritative meteorological data to inform understanding of and response to climate threats,

Alan Dangour, Director of Climate and Health at Wellcome, said that investment in climate and health must embrace both the meteorological and public health sectors.