The Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project (S2S) Project is looking for a contractor to set up and implement a competition platform on the Renkulab facility hosted by the Swiss Data Science Center at ETH Zürich and EPFL. For more information, click the heading above.

WCRP and Future Earth have agreed to strengthen their partnership to jointly address the most pressing societal challenges associated with climate and environmental change. For more information and the full Joint Statement, click the heading above.

We are delighted to report that Professor Veronika Eyring, Chair of WCRP's Coupled Modelling Intercomparison Project (CMIP) Panel has been selected as a recipient of Germany's most important research funding award. The Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) awarded the 2021 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize to Veronika, along with nine other scientists. We warmly congratulate Veronika in what is a very well deserved recognition of her work.

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The World Climate Research Program (WCRP) is moving towards a new programme structure in an era where we urgently require solutions to the challenges of climate change. To find out more click the heading above.

Above: The new WCRP structure.

WCRP Joint Scientific Committee member, Pierre Friedlingstein, and colleagues have published the Global Carbon Budget 2020 (https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3269-202).

Produced by more than 80 researchers working from universities and research institutions in 15 countries, this annual product compiles and assesses reports, papers, measurements, and model outputs to quantify sources and sinks of carbon in units of gigatonnes of carbon per year (GtC yr-1).

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