The conference Global Climate Observation: the Road to the Future is being held from 2-4 March 2016 at the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam to allow producers and users of climate observations and other stakeholders the opportunity to discuss the current monitoring of the Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) and to highlight possible new areas for ECVs. 

These discussions provide a key input into the new GCOS Implementation Plan that is now being prepared for UNFCC in 2016.

In order to accommodate the participants who are not able to join the meeting in person, the live web streaming of the whole conference Global Climate Observation: the Road to the Future will be made available on the conference website. Web streaming will occur for all sessions of the GCOS Science conference and the participants will have the opportunity to view a live web broadcast via the following link www.gcosscience.org/livestream/.
The abstracts of the presentations are already visible on the website. To view them please check the
online programme. Presentation slides will be uploaded on the website in real time during the conference.