Cyprus eyes role in monitoring climate change

Cyprus has a role to play in issues concerning climate change by building up a new station to monitor the effects, General Secretary of the World Meteorological Organisation, Petteri Taalas told CNA.

On the sidelines of the conference "Climate Change in the Mediterranean and Middle East, challenges and solutions," Taalas underlined the urgency to start implementing the Paris Agreement and expressed hope that the Conference in Nicosia will motivate the policymakers to take more action.

"We have to strengthen the scientific basis and we are discussing how to improve the observing systems of Cyprus. There is a plan to establish a new observing sighting in Cyprus to monitor the greenhouse gases," Talaas said.

He pointed out that the Mediterranean is one of those regions to suffer the most because of climate change.

The effects of climate change, he...