The CliC Scientific Steering Group held its 20th meeting in Pucón, Chile alongside the 11th Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open Science Meeting in order to sustain and improve linkages with the Antarctic Research Community. The Steering Group was provided updates from all CliC working groups and a number of partner organizations. Foci of discussion included CliC engagement in, and support for, the UN Decade for Cryosphere Science (2025-34) and International Polar Year (2032-33), ongoing and potential future CliC synthesis papers and assessments, and the finalization of the draft CliC Strategic Plan for 2025-35. As part of broader ongoing efforts to revitalize and strengthen the CliC community of scientists, the Steering Group agreed to hold a Climate and Cryosphere Open Science Conference in Wellington, NZ in 2026 in cooperation with co-sponsors which are likely to include the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) and the International Glaciology Society (IGS).
The record of all CliC Scientific Steering Group meeting reports, including this one, is available on our website: https://climate-cryosphere.org/clic-scientific-steering-meetings/
Anna A. Sörensson and Carla Gulizia
DCAO/FCEN/UBA, CIMA / UBA-CONICET, IFAECI / UBA-CONICET-CNRS-IRD, Buenos Aires Argentina
Overview
Professor Detlef Stammer, Chair of the World Climate Research Programme Joint Scientific Committee (WCRP JSC), visited Argentina on 21-23 August 2024.
A first objective of the visit was to interact with the Argentinean climate researchers, stakeholders and decision makers and get an overview of the interactions amongst these three groups. This would showcase one example of how the relation between science and society works in the global south, getting glimpses of different realities, including potentialities, challenges and needs. This could be useful to the WRCP when evaluating how to reduce the existing gap between the global north and south.
A second objective was to inform and promote WCRP to researchers, stakeholders and government agencies, and in particular to define priorities that are common to WCRP and to national climate science and local stakeholders and government agencies.
This Summary Report documents the actors visited and the activities carried out ordered by date.