With refrence to the World Meteorological Organization WMO which of the following statement is...........

Environment and Ecology Environment- Institutional Structure

With refrence to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) which of the following statement is/are correct?

1. The Organization is headquartered at Rio de Janeiro.

2. It formally became the World Meteorological Organization on 17 March 1951, and was designated as a specialized agency of the United Nations.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct:

1 only

2 only

Both 1 and 2

Neither 1 nor 2

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Explanation:

World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is an intergovernmental organization with a membership of 193 Member States and Territories. The President of the World Meteorological Congress, its supreme body, is Gerhard Adrian as a successor of David Grimes. The Organization is hadquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.It followed on from the International Meteorological Organization, founded in 1873, non-governmental organization. Reforms of status and structure were proposed from the 1930s, culminating in the World Meteorological Convention signed on 11 October 1947 which came into force on 23 March 1950. The WMO and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) jointly created Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about anthropogenic (man-made) climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."