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Article: El Nino will persist into early 2003. (Affecting Sustainable Development).
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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The current El Nino event striking the central and eastern Equatorial Pacific basin is expected to persist into early 2003, says the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in its latest El Nino Outlook. While it is not expected to reach the strength of the 1997-1998 event, conditions in the tropical Pacific are likely to be sufficiently anomalous to create substantial consequences in some regions.
This development calls for proactive measures to reduce vulnerability and strengthen capacity to decrease the impact of floods and droughts, as recognized in the Plan of Implementation discussed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.
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