WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2018 WMO-No. 1233 WEATHER CLIMATE WATERThe following people contributed to this Statement John Kennedy UK Met Office, Selvaraju Ramasamy Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO, Robbie Andrew Center for International Climate Research CICERO, Norway, Salvatore Arico Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization IOC-UNESCO, Erin Bishop United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR, Geir Braathen WMO, Pep Canadell Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia, Anny Cazanave Laboratoire d’Etudes en Gophysique et Ocanographie Spatiales CNES and Observatoire Midi-Pyrnes, France, Jake Crouch National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, United States of America, Chrystelle Damar Environment, International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO, Neil Dickson Environment, ICAO, Pierre Fridlingstein University of ter, Madeline Garlick UNHCR, Marc Gordon United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction UNISDR, Jane Hupe Environment, ICAO, Tatiana Ilyina Max Planck Institute, Dina Ionesco International Organization for Migration IOM, Kirsten Isensee IOC-UNESCO, Robert B. Jackson Stanford University, Maarten Kappelle United Nations Environment Programme UNEP, Sari Kovats London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Corinne Le Qur Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Sieun Lee IOM, Isabelle Michal UNHCR, Virginia Murray Public Health England, Sofia Palli UNISDR, Giorgia Pergolini World Food Programme WFP, Glen Peters CICERO, Ileana Sinziana Puscas IOM, Eric Rignot University of California, Irvine, Katherina Schoo IOC-UNESCO, Joy Shumake-Guillemot WMO/WHO Joint Climate and Health Office, Michael Sparrow WMO, Neil Swart Environment Canada, Oksana Tarasova WMO, Blair Trewin Bureau of Meteorology, Australia, Freja Vamborg European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts ECMWF, Jing Zheng UNEP, Markus Ziese Deutscher Wetterdienst DWD. The following agencies also contributed ICAO, IOC-UNESCO, IOM, FAO, UNEP, UNHCR, UNISDR, WFP and World Health Organization WHO. 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