Participating in an international group like this means putting aside our individual and institutional priorities to identify and address gaps where better coordination is needed. It’s a great way to serve the community, while expanding your network and building meaningful connections.

Open call for the Membership of the Global Extremes Platform (GEP) Working Group on Annual assessment of Weather and Climate Extremes (AWCE).
 For information and to apply (deadline August 5, 2025), please visit the Open Call webpage. 

Join the RIfS Scientific Steering Group (SSG)!
For information and to apply (deadline September 15, 2025, 17:00 UTC), please visit the Call webpage. 

By bridging climate science, policy, and communities through regional platforms such as the Indo-Pacific My Climate Risk Hub at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Pune, India, this paper in Frontiers in Climate outlines pathways for collaborative climate action. This work proposes actionable strategies for regional resilience.This study synthesizes existing climate knowledge for the Indo-Pacific region, emphasizing the need for localized, community-driven adaptation approaches.

To know more, read the study "Bridging climate science, policy, and communities: collaborative pathways for climate resilience in the Indo-Pacific, Modi A, et al., (2025), Front. Clim. Vol.7.

The joint CLIVAR-OMDP and RIfS-CORDEX Task Force on Regional Ocean Climate Projections  is assembling a record inventory of regional ocean model projection simulations as both a resource for the regional ocean modeling community, to inform recommendations regarding community needs and priorities. The Task Force is collecting information for this inventory by way of voluntary survey with the intent of making synthesized information publicly available via the Task Force web page.

You’re invited to take the survey using the QR code below or using directly this link https://forms.office.com/e/18yxHGqWPZ  by 1 July 2025.

An international study, published in Science, has found that only 24% of present-day glacier mass will remain if the world were to warm to 2.7°C, the trajectory set by current climate policies. In contrast, limiting warming to 1.5°C — the target of the Paris Agreement — would preserve 54% of glacier mass.

To know more, read the study "Glacier preservation doubled by limiting warming to 1.5°C versus 2.7° - Harry Zekollari et al., Science, 2025, Vol 388, Issue 6750 pp. 979-983, DOI: 10.1126/science.adu4675.

The first Risk-KAN Symposium, convened at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg at April 28th 2025, brought together researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders to chart the future direction of the Knowledge-Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events (Risk-KAN). Next to serving as the official kick-off of the new working group and leadership structure, the gathering focused on discussing how to advance transdisciplinary risk research and fostering actionable insights to support societal preparedness, resilience, and adaptation to compound and systemic risks in a changing climate.

Find out more about the First Risk-Kan Symposium Report

The 3^rd International Conference on Subseasonal to Seasonal to Decadal Prediction (S2S2D) will take place on 7-11 September 2026 in Reading, UK. This event will provide a forum for the current state of Earth system prediction science to be shared and discussed. It will consist of two parallel sub-conferences, respectively focusing on the subseasonal-to-seasonal and seasonal-to-decadal prediction horizons, together with plenary sessions addressing cross-cutting themes. 

Important Dates

• 1 Dec 2025: abstract submission open
• 1 March 2026: abstract submission closed

To know more about the conference, please visit the S2S2D conference website.

Join us in the upcoming webinar as part of the WCRP Digital Earths Lighthouse Activity. Click here to register. 

Topic: Coupled km-scale Modelling of the Terrestrial Water Cycle: Progress and Prospect 
Speaker: Prof. Simon Dadson from School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Date and time: June 6, 2025 - 15:00 UTC 

For more information about the series: https://www.wcrp-climate.org/de-webinar-series

Last week, we had an excellent meeting of authors of the WCRP High-impact climate events, tipping points, and irreversible regional impacts assessment  at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York (5-8 May 2025). A lot of progress was made on the Assessment, including nailing down the scope and structure of the publication. We will now be working to produce a first draft of the different sections by the end of June. Huge thanks to AIMES for sponsoring the meeting, to Hannah Liddy and Anastasia Romanou for hosting us at GISS, and to Gabi Hegerl for her leadership.

Participants of the meeting - NASA GISS - May 2025

The WCRP Regional Information for Society (RIfS) Core Project is calling for members of the newly established Robust Information Working Group (RIWG), and associated task teams which will contribute to its work. The aim of the group is to establish what it means for a scientific product to be “robust”, i.e.,  context specific regional climate information that is fit for informing decision-making; and what processes could look like to generate and apply robust information to produce “robust” decisions.

The group aims to identify attributes of robustness of information, identify processes to generate and apply such information, and produce recommendations about what we need to change in our communities of practice, institutions and structures to allow for the achievement of robust climate change information geared towards context-specific decisions.

For more information and to nominate someone (including self-nomination), deadline 15 May 2025 - 17:00 UTC, please visit the open call webpage and the application form.

Pan-CLIVAR 2025 will bring together CLIVAR members from all panels, Research Foci, and Scientific Steering Group (SSG), as well as representatives from WCRP core-projects and external partners and will initiate the formulation of the next science plan. Pan-CLIVAR 2025 will be held from 22 to 26 September 2025 in hybrid mode (in-person and on-line) in Indonesia. It will consist of individual panels and Research Foci meetings, SSG sessions, cross-panel meetings, plenaries, and a Symposium "Bridging Science and Society in Southeast Asia and Beyond" on 24 September with breakout sessions in the morning of 25 September. This year 2025 marks the 30th Anniversary of CLIVAR.

Participation to Pan CLIVAR Meeting is by invitation. The Symposium, however, is open to all.

• Registration and the call for Symposium abstracts are open. Abstract submission deadline: extended to April 18, 2025, 23h59 CEST.
• To register and submit an abstract, visit the Pan-CLIVAR 2025 website.

Join us in the upcoming webinar as part of the WCRP Digital Earths Lighthouse Activity. Click here to register. 

Topic: The "Earthing" of Weather and Climate Processes: New Studies of Land-Atmosphere Feedback
Speaker: Dr. Volker Wulfmeyer (Institute of Physics and Meteorology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany)
Date and time: April 1st, 2025 - 15:00 UTC 

For more information about the series: https://www.wcrp-climate.org/de-webinar-series

This workshop, by invitation only, is organized by the Regional Information for Society (RIfS) Core Project (RIfS) and the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) in Cape Town (South Africa) from 8 to 11 September 2025. It is planned as a pivotal moment in Africa for how to address the critical questions of robust, defensible, and actionable climate information to support Africa’s policy and decision makers. This workshop is the first step to new cross-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, and cross regional collaborations.

To know more visit the workshop website.

We are delighted to invite you to join the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Tipping Point: "Impacts on Climate and Extreme Events" webinar, in the WCRP Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity, AIMES, the Earth Commission, and Future Earth webinar series. This webinar will explore the potential impacts of an AMOC tipping event on Europe’s climate.  When: 25 March 14:00-15:30 CET Presentations by:

• Anastasia Romanou (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies/Columbia University): AMOC bifurcation - tipping due to internal climate variability
• René van Westen (The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute):  AMOC Tipping Events under different Forcing Scenarios

Register: https://the-amoc-tipping-point-impacts-on-climate-and-extreme-events.confetti.events/

**The deadline for proposals to host the CORDEX IPO has been extended until 31 March 2025**

CORDEX is the focal point for advancing and coordinating the science and application of regional climate downscaling through global partnerships within WCRP. This fosters and grows research focused on advancing and coordinating the science and application of regional climate downscaling, to effectively link global climate research and the regional information needs of society.

The Host Institution will significantly benefit from hosting the CORDEX IPO by having a close interaction with this critical domain of research in support of regional downscaling experiments. It will serve as a great opportunity for the host to help deliver the exciting new goals of CORDEX to the international community.

• Download the open call application package
• The deadline for proposals has been extended until 31 March 2025 

All communications and enquiries regarding this call should be directed in English to Maureen Wanzala (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) in the WCRP Secretariat.