UN climate agency picks first woman leader

THE World Meteorological Organization (WMO) voted in Argentina’s Celeste Saulo today to become its first woman leader and steer the WMO’s critical global role in tracking climate change.  

Saulo, a WMO vice president who has headed Argentina’s weather agency since 2014, won a landslide in a vote held behind closed doors at the UN climate and weather agency’s congress in Geneva.