Singapore named WMO Southeast Asia haze control centre host

Singapore has also housed the ASEAN Specialised Meteorological Centre since 1993.

Singapore has been chosen to host the World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) Southeast Asian control centre for forest fire and smoke pollution forecasts, enhancing the region's ability to monitor transboundary haze.

The centre, one of the first two globally, will conduct atmospheric smoke haze dispersion modelling, enabling governments to take preventive measures.

Singapore has also housed the ASEAN Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC) since 1993, which provides regional weather, climate, and haze assessments, and strengthens monitoring through research and development.

A dedicated website will offer forecasts, satellite images, hotspots, sub-seasonal outlooks, and fire risk data from the Malaysian Meteorological Department.

Earlier this year, the Centre for Climate Research Singapore completed its third national climate change study to help the region develop climate adaptation strategies.

The country has also signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation to assess climate risks to food production and enhance agri-food resilience.

In addition to ASMC, Singapore plays an active role in the WMO, serving on the Executive Council and Management Group for Regional Association 5 Southwest Pacific, and hosting the WMO's regional office since 2018.

Follow the link s for more news on

ASEAN

climate change

Reaching the people who run Asia's businesses is harder than it used to be.

Inboxes are crowded. Attention is short. The executives you most want to reach — the founders, CFOs, and operators who actually move budgets — are the hardest to find through the usual channels. If you're building a company, a category, or a reputation, you already know this.

We've spent twenty years building the room they read. Singapore Business Review is where senior decision makers in Singapore and across Southeast Asia come for business coverage they can't get elsewhere — in print, online, and in person at the summits and roundtables we host across seven markets.

If you have something these readers should know about — a point of view worth publishing, a product worth their attention, an event worth their time — we'd like to hear what you're trying to do.

Book a meeting

| Or download the media kit (PDF)

240,000 senior readers quarterly in print Top 1,700 Singapore companies reached

7 markets across Southeast Asia