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The International Project Offices (IPOs) and WCRP Secretariat held a teleconference on 26 October 2020. The telecon focused on the discussion of the involvement of the IPOs in the WCRP restructuring process, the updates on the Lighthouse Activities and Regional Consultations, as well as the plans for next year. 14 representatives from the WCRP Secretariat and project offices of CLIVAR, CliC, GEWEX, SPARC, CORDEX, CORA, S2S and YESS attended the meeting. The major uptakes from the meeting include:

The China - Europe Frontier Forum "Progress on Ocean Science and Technology" will be held online on 20-21 October.

The first WCRP Meeting (online) of the Regional Focal Points (RFPs) for Asia and Oceania was held on 12 October 2020. Dr Fangli Qiao and Dr Roxy Mathew Koll are RFPs from CLIVAR.

The first WCRP Meeting (online) of the Regional Focal Points (RFPs) for South America was held on 16th October 2020, attended by 20 participants.

The CLIVAR Global Synthesis and Observations Panel (GSOP) held a teleconference on 12^th October and discussed several points.

The 1^st telecon of the Organising Committee of the CLIVAR/GOOS workshop: ‘From global to coastal: Cultivating new solutions and partnerships for an enhanced Ocean Observing System in a decade of accelerating change’ was organised on 28^th September 2020.

The SOLAS Indian Ocean Meeting was organised virtually on 30 September 2020. Roxy Mathew Koll, co-chair of the CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel (IORP) and Jing Li from the International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO) attended the meeting. 

On 30^th September, CLIVAR held a teleconference to discuss the ongoing WCRP Implementation Plan and how CLIVAR as a community should respond and provide feedback.