An Europe-wide network made up of climate-related activities and organizations across Europe, a platform to link decision makers, business and public to the climate science community and climate service providers.

Chris Hewitt, Met Office and Climateurope coordinator, introduces Climateurope and its activities.

To identify regions and sectors most at risk from climate change impacts. This is one of the purposes of climate services, which are expected to be most effective when their products are developed in close collaboration with the intended users.

A varied 2½ day programme of lectures, discussions, networking and performances to explore the state-of-the-art of climate information, and its uses and value in decision-making at both the European and national levels.

The landscape is very diverse. Europe is at the leading edge of Climate Observation, Earth-System modeling and Climate Services development.

This has the potential to improve the lives of European citizens. Climate change is affecting many sectors, the audience is wide and varied, it includes policy-makers, decision-makers, businesses and no-profit, public and private institutions.

How to coordinate this flourishing complexity in order to foster a climate-smart society?