An OOPC/WCRP-CLIVAR joint session was successfully organised online on 22 April 2021 during the OOPC-24, in order to further strengthen the interaction between OOPC and WCRP/CLIVAR. 

WCRP organized a Leadership Meeting (online) on 21^st April 2021, with 53 representatives attending the teleconference. 

Due to the continuous COVID-19 pandemics around the world, we have decided to postpone again the 2^nd CLIVAR-FIO summer school to 2022.

The Tropical Pacific Observing Needs Workshop will be organized by US CLIVAR on May 24-26, 2021.

A CLIVAR Community Teleconference was organised on 25^th January 2021, with the participation of representatives from the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG), Panels and Research Foci, the WCRP Grand Challenge on Regional Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts (SL GC) and the ICPO.

The WCRP Regional Focal Point (RFP) Team for the sub-region of Eastern Asia organized its second telecon on January 19^th, 2021.

The EGU General Assembly 2021 is going to be held virtually on 19-30 April. In preparation for the meeting. Abstract submission deadline: 13 January 2021 at 13:00 CET.

We are deeply saddened and very sorry to hear that Dr Françoise Guichard, member of the CLIVAR/GEWEX Monsoons Panel, unexpectedly passed away on 5 December, 2020, in Concarneau, in her native France.