We are delighted to announce the next webinar hosted by the Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change (EPESC) lighthouse activity on 12 December 2025.
Topic: Characterising observational uncertainties
Date: 12 December 2025
Time: 11:00 - 12:30 UTC
Speakers: Duo Chan, Lijing Cheng & Stephanie Fiedler
Please register here!
The WCRP Digital Earth Lighthouse Activity is seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for Working Group (WG) members for each of it’s three main activities:
Information to apply can be found on the Open Call document. Deadline for application is extended to February 1, 2026.
We are excited to announce that the 10 New Insights in Climate Science (10NICS) report 2025/2026 is released. With input from more than 70 experts, this report highlights 10 key advances in climate change research to inform policy. The report also feeds into the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP) every year by equipping delegates with the information required to initiate crucial policy interventions.
Read the report and learn more about the 10 New Insights in Climate Science
Call for National Committees: IPY-5 National Committees will play a central role in coordinating national contributions to IPY-5. These committees will connect local and national efforts to the international IPY-5 coordination and help ensure that research, data, education, and outreach activities are effectively aligned with global objectives.Countries interested in contributing to IPY-5 may establish an IPY-5 National Committee from October 2025 onwards. To learn more, visit the Call for National Committees website.
Call for Bids to host the IPY-5 International Coordination Office: The Executive Committee of the 5th International Polar Year 2032-33 (IPY-5) is now accepting bids to host and sponsor the International Coordination Office for the planning and implementation of the IPY-5. The operational period of the Coordination Office is expected to be from early 2027 until at least the end of 2035. Deadline to submit: 6 February 2026 at 18:00 GMT. To learn more and to apply, visit the Call for Bids to host the IPY-5.
The Regional Information for Society (RIfS) Core Project organized an expert meeting on the Robustness of Climate Change Information for Decisions in April 2024, hosted by the European Commission and co-sponsored by the Green Climate Fund.
The workshop aimed to address the following issue: When sources of climate change information do not agree or are misaligned to decision contexts, there is a lack of consensus about how to overcome this barrier and inform local-to-regional decision making.
Collectively the meeting sought to develop forward thinking on building new cross-community collaboration to advance and demonstrate the development of relevant information that is defensibly robust, aligned to context, in ways that are scalable and transferable, and thus broadly accepted and widely applicable. The meeting was explicitly designed to be a first step, a catalyst for new cross-community recognition of the challenge, and to stimulate new actions to address this. A new Interim Working Group is carrying on the work of organizing follow-on activities on these themes, including guidance and standards, global North/South partnerships, ethics and accountability, reducing epistemic uncertainties, and collaborations around responsible data use.
More information: https://www.wcrp-rifs.org/activities/workshops/