The side event is organized in cooperation with the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), Fond Tara, the Government of Denmark , the Sandwatch Foundation and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

The UNEP report follows on from a new analysis by the World Meteorological Organisation that says the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2011.

BBC: UN says carbon cuts too slow to curb dangerous warming

But then others objected that the Met Office is the official provider of World Meteorological Organisation statistics and it would be ludicrous to reject their highly sophisticated statistics smoothed by computer models just because the Met Office forecasters were amongst the contestants in the Weather Test.

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