We are delighted to announce the next webinar hosted by the Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change (EPESC) lighthouse activity on 12 November 2024. The details are as follows:
- Topic: Approaches, Challenges, and Emerging Opportunities in Extreme Event Attribution
- Date and time: 12 November 2024; 12:00 CEST.
- Speakers: Dr Nicholas Leach (University of Oxford), Dr Yukiko Imada (University of Tokyo), Dr Yang Chen (Chinese Academy of Meteorological Science).
To register for this webinar, click here.
Past webinars of the EPESC webinar series, are available here.
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is delighted to open a call for proposals to host a dedicated project office in support of one of WCRP’s core activities: the COordinated Regional climate Downscaling EXperiment (CORDEX).
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. In its 15-year (2009-2024) history, CORDEX’s activities have generated a wealth of cutting-edge research. CORDEX has a major role in in key international scientific assessment reports, including WMO Global Framework for Climate Services, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), by providing climate projections at the regional and local scale and through increasing science capacity in the Global South.
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 is 28 February 2025
All communications and enquiries regarding this call should be directed in English to Maureen Wanzala (
Our planet is witnessing cascading and damaging effects due to surges in temperature driven primarily by anthropogenic climate change, reveals the latest 10 New Insights in Climate Science (10NICS) report. These impacts have ripple effects on maternal and reproductive health and on one of our most vital natural carbon sinks, the Amazon rainforest, to name a few.
Launched on Monday 28 October 2024 by a consortium of globally renowned social, natural and climate scientists, the 10NICS report spans a vast range of climate research and is designed to equip policymakers with the latest and most pivotal climate research published over the past 18 months. The The latest research on the insight topics is synthesised to highlight the policy implications that can inform negotiations at COP29 and policy through 2025 and beyond.
Read the full press release here.
Read the 10NICS report here.
The International Polar Year 2032-2033 Updated Concept Note along with the IPY timeline graph, was released and is now available for download here.
For more information and to provide feedback please contact the IPY Secretariat at
The WCRP Academy Support Unit was officially launched at the Manila Observatory on 7 October 2024, making history as the first of its kind within the Programnme and the first WCRP support office located in the Global South. To read more, click the heading above.
