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Globally, the month had\nbeen the second warmest July on record, with sea surface temperatures the\nhighest ever recorded for the same month. Japan and the Republic of Korea both had\nhad record-breaking heat last week, as did other parts of Asia, the Middle East,\nand Latin America. Parts of West Africa were witnessing heavy monsoon rainfall\nand flooding. And, in its weekly Global Hydromet Scan, WMO had warned\nof heavy to locally very heavy rainfall, with the risk of flash floods and\nlandslides, this week in Northeast and west India, eastern Pakistan, Nepal,\nBangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and some parts of South East Asia. China had\nconducted mass evacuations ahead of this weekend's landfall of Typhoon Dolphin,\nthe 13th typhoon of this season.\n\nThese\nareas of high pressure affected both land and sea, with marine heatwaves\nrecorded around Western Europe and in the Arctic, as well as in the North\nPacific, away from areas experiencing land heatwaves. According to the U.S.\nMarine Environment Monitoring Service, between January and the end of June,\napproximately 82 per cent of the global ocean experienced marine heatwave\nconditions of varying intensity — the second-largest extent observed, after\n2024.\n\nAlso, last\nmonth had seen exceptional wildfire activity across western Europe, in terms of\nthe area burnt and emissions. Fire emissions data provided by Copernicus\nAtmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) showed that 2026 emissions for France were\ncomparable or higher than the extreme fire years of 2023 and 2022; 2026 was on\ncourse to be one of the most extreme fire years of the past 24 years. Data for\nSpain showed fire emissions to be well above average for the time of year.\nFires were also raging in part of the western USA and in Canada, where 43 active\nfires were classed as being out of control.\n\nNot all of\nEurope was gripped by heat and drought: there had been lower than average\ntemperatures and above average rainfall across eastern Europe and Scandinavia.\n\nThis extreme\nweather underscored the need for reliable forecasts and early warnings. That\nwas why the Early Warnings for\nAll initiative remained the priority for the World\nMeteorological Organization and its Members.\n\nJohn\nKennedy, World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Head of Climate Information,\nsaid that these events over the last few months were the combined effect of\nlong-term warming with a persistent pattern of alternating high- and\nlow-pressure systems stretching across the northern hemisphere. The\nhigh-pressure areas were more typically associated with high temperature and\ndry conditions, and the low-pressure areas were cooler and wetter. \"The reason\nwe see heat associated with high pressure,\" Mr. Kennedy explained, \"is that air\naccumulates and descends over an area of high pressure. The descending air\nwarms and makes clouds less likely to form, letting in more sunlight. Both\nfactors contribute to higher temperatures. The high pressure also tends to\nblock incursions of cooler air from outside. These kinds of high-pressure\npatterns can last for (…) weeks.\"\n\nExtreme\nheat was becoming more frequent, more intense, was lasting longer and covered a\nwider area than in the cooler climate of the past. With El Niño now well\nestablished in the Pacific, WMO expected to see a bump in global temperature.\n\nAnswering\nquestions from journalists, Mr. Kennedy said the heat over Europe now was\ndriven by \"background warming\" from climate change combining with the weather\npatterns of high- and low-pressure systems. There was no clear link to El Niño\nfor the temperatures over Western Europe during the summer. The\nIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had shown that the pattern of extreme\nheat increasing in intensity, duration, and frequency would persist as long as\ngreenhouse gases continued to accumulate in the atmosphere.\n\nRegarding\nthe situation of the main navigable rivers in Europe, the deficit of rainfall\nhad been building up since April 2026 and it would take much more than one\nsummer storm to replenish river levels and soil moisture, Ms. Nullis noted. For\ninstance, in Hungary, Serbia and the Adriatic Sea, between 250 mm and 350 mm of\nadditional precipitation – which was a lot – would be needed to normalize the\nsurface water balance deficit. Even with normal rainfall starting immediately,\nit would take a long time to redress that balance.\n\nAnswering\nquestions on the impact of wildfires on health, Tarik Jašarević, for the World\nHealth Organization (WHO), said wildfire smoke was a mixture of air\npollutants of which particulate matter (PM) was the principal public health\nthreat. Wildfire smoke was associated with premature deaths in the general\npopulation and could cause or exacerbate diseases of the lungs, heart, brain,\nnervous system, skin, gut, kidney, eyes, nose, and liver. It could also lead to\ncognitive impairment and memory loss. Firefighters and emergency response\nworkers were greatly impacted by injuries, burns and smoke inhalation, particularly\nat a high concentration.\n\nMs. Nullis\nsaid WMO would be releasing, in early September, its annual Air Quality and Climate\nBulletin, of which wildfires were a perennial feature.\n\nOCHA Update\non the Earthquake in Colombia\n\nJens Laerke,\nfor the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),\nsaid that according to initial official data 1,495 people had been injured and\nat least 126 had died in the earthquake that had struck Colombia. Nearly 5,000\nhomes had been damaged, 387 destroyed; more than 550 educational institutions and\nmore than 350 community centers had been affected. Official reports indicated\nthat there was limited access to essential services such as electricity, water\nsupply, healthcare, and connectivity in various cities; and that 53 roads had been\naffected across the country.\n\nThe OCHA\nteam was monitoring the situation very closely; the entire UN country team was meeting\ntoday to see how they could further support the national response of the\nColombian authorities, in any way that may be requested or needed.\n\nAnswering\nquestions, Mr. Laerke said that there had not been any official request for\ninternational assistance. Should that happen, the entire UN system and\nhumanitarians were standing ready to lend support.\n\nTarik\nJašarević, for the World Health Organization, said damage had been\nreported in 24 health facilities across 6 departments: Valle del Cauca has\nexperienced the most significant health infrastructure impacts, particularly in\nCali.\n\nAlthough\ninternational assistance had not been requested, WHO had activated its\nemergency response mechanisms through its Country Office in Colombia and field\nteams. Teams had been deployed to affected areas, including Cali and Chocó, to\nsupport health sector assessments and coordination. The main needs that had been\nreported up to now were related to safe drinking water, hygiene kits, household\nkits, health care, and food assistance.\n\nVaccinations\nin the United States\n\nA\njournalist asked for the World Health Organization's reaction to the US\nPresident Trump's signing of an executive order calling for fewer childhood\nvaccinations.\n\nTarik\nJašarević, for the World Health Organization, explained that for more\nthan 60 years, WHO and global health experts such as the SAGE (Strategic Advisory\nGroup of Experts on Immunization), as well as national\nauthorities, had intensively studied disease transmission, the safety of\nvaccines and the way they protected people from disease.\n\nThe\nimmunization schedule showed when children, adolescents and adults should get\ntheir vaccines: it was developed by medical experts who assessed how diseases\nspread, who got sick most often and at what ages. This had shaped global\nguidance on what vaccines people needed.\n\nBased on\nextensive reviews of scientific information, WHO issued vaccine position papers\nthat explained key facts about each disease, the vaccines available to prevent\nthe disease, including their safety evidence, and WHO's recommendations on the\ntiming of each dose. Every vaccine was recommended at the time it offered the\nbest protection against serious illness: one type of vaccine could be needed at\nbirth, another one during adolescence.\n\nIn nearly\nall countries, National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups made policy\nrecommendations and set national immunization schedules. These expert groups\nrelied on guidance from the SAGE to inform their decisions at the national\nlevel. These experts rigorously assessed scientific data, deliberated on the\nevidence, and then developed recommendations that were free of industry and\npolitical influence.\n\nAnnouncements\n\nRolando Gómez, for the United Nations\nInformation Service, informed that the Committee\non the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) would review, this week,\nreports submitted by Kuwait (this\nmorning), India (11-12 August), and Honduras (12-13 August).\n\nThe Committee\non the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) would open its 35th\nsession next Wednesday, 12 August, at 10 a.m. The Committee\nwould review the reports of Qatar (12-13 August), Sri Lanka (14 August),\nLithuania (17-18 August), Chili (18-19 August), and Slovakia (20 August).\n\nThe Conference on Disarmament was holding a plenary meeting in\nRoom XII this morning, on the following agenda items: \"New types of weapons of\nmass destruction and new systems of such weapons; radiological weapons –\nComprehensive programme of disarmament – Transparency in armaments.\"\n\nThe Security Council was meeting today, at 4 p.m. Geneva time, to\ndiscuss the situation in the Middle East.\n\nTomorrow 12 August would be International Youth\nDay, under the theme \"Different contexts, common\naspirations\". \"This is an opportunity to celebrate the creativity, dynamism,\nand leadership of young people everywhere,\" Mr. Gómez quoted the Secretary-General\nas saying in a message sent for the occasion.\n\nAhead of tomorrow's Youth Day, the Department of Global Communications had\nissued an issue brief on \"Children,\nyouth, and information integrity\": this brief followed up to the Secretary-General's\nrecent call for an \"AI child safety pledge\".\n\nResponding to a question, Mr. Gómez confirmed that the AI for Developing\nCountries Forum was taking place from tomorrow, 12 August, through Friday, 14\nAugust, in the Assembly Hall of the Palais des Nations. The event was public\nand open to media with valid media credentials. 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