PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Clim.
Sec. Climate and Decision Making
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fclim.2025.1644272
This article is part of the Research TopicConcept Papers from the World Climate Research Programme: The Future of Climate ResearchView all 14 articles
Perspectives on Future Climate Research: A Preface to the Special Collection from the World Climate Research Programme 2023 Open Science Conference
Provisionally accepted
- 1Universitat Hamburg Fachbereich Erdsystemwissenschaften, Hamburg, Germany
- 2Australian National University Institute for Climate Energy & Disaster Solutions, Acton, Australia
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Since its inception in 1980, the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) has coordinated and facilitated international climate research to develop, share, and apply the climate knowledge that contributes to societal well-being. Through international science coordination and partnerships, WCRP contributes to advancing our understanding of the multi-scale dynamic interactions between natural and social systems that affect climate. WCRP-supported research builds the climate science that is the basis for IPCC Assessments and Special Reports and underpins the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change including national commitments to the 2015 Paris Agreement. It also contributes to the knowledge that supports the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and multilateral environmental conventions.To shape the future climate science agenda, WCRP organized its second Open Science Conference, which took place between October 23 and 27, 2023 and was hosted by the Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) in Kigali, Rwanda. This once-in-a-decade event took place in a truly hybrid setting, bringing together over 1400 participants representing scientists from diverse research communities worldwide as well as practitioners, planners, and politicians.
Keywords: Work Climate Reproach Programme, Future climate science, Climate services, Open Science Conference, Global South
Received: 10 Jun 2025; Accepted: 30 Jun 2025.
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* Correspondence: Detlef Stammer, Universitat Hamburg Fachbereich Erdsystemwissenschaften, Hamburg, Germany
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