acknowledges that the theme focuses on the critical roles of weather climate and water services in powering a sustainable future for us and for generations to come further acknowledges that the world meteorological organisation provides the basis for a better understanding of the climatology of severe weather and extreme events such as tropical cyclones el niño floods heat waves cold waves droughts and other natural hazards contributing to saving both lives and property and improving our understanding and monitoring of the climate system and environment and calls on everyone to increase their knowledge about how global climate phenomena play out