Date/Time
Date(s) - 13/01/2026
16:00 - 17:00
Location
Press Club Brussels Europe
Categories
Media invite: Global Climate Highlights Report briefing
Unpack the report with key figures behind the Global Climate Highlights Report 2025.
Join us on 13th January 2025 as we unpack the content from the Global Climate Highlights press conference with those at the heart of it.
ECMWF’s Copernicus directors are making themselves available to answer your questions, helping you get your story straight for your audience before the embargo lifts on the content on 14 January.
The Director of the Climate Change Service at ECMWF, Carlo Buontempo,
the Director of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service at ECMWF, Laurence Roil,
and Samantha Burgess, ECMWF’s Strategic Climate Lead,
will present the science behind the warmest decade the world has ever seen.
ECMWF’s brand-new Director General Florian Pappenberger who comes into post on 1 January will be offering the major insights, trends and implications of the report.
All four spokespeople will be available for interview after the briefing.
The event will be chaired by Isabelle Boscaro-Clarke, Head of Strategic Communications, ECMWF.
You’ll also hear about:
- The methodology behind the Global Climate Highlights report
- Visualisations that can be used as part of your reporting
- Really useful ECMWF media tools you can use to cover the report, and in your everyday reporting.
Plus:
- We’ll show how policy can, and has, impacted and improved air quality even in a short space of time with great benefit to public health
- We’ll introduce ECMWF’s weather science and operational expertise
- Provide expert comment on the recent news out of Copernicus that the Antarctic ozone hole was the smallest and shortest-lived in five years.
Why ECMWF?
ECMWF is a key player in Copernicus, the Earth observation component of the European Union’s space programme. ECMWF has been entrusted by the European Commission with the implementation of two services from the EU’s Copernicus Earth observation programme – the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service and the Copernicus Climate Change Service – and contributes to the Copernicus Emergency Management Service.
It is as part of its broader mission to support evidence-based policymaking through high-quality data and insights, and its role as a trusted source in weather forecasting and environmental monitoring, that ECMWF is organising this briefing.
Come along
Join us for the briefing, as well as drinks, informal networking and interviews.
Notes to editors
Limited places are available so will be given out on a first come first serve basis. Please RSVP to the ECMWF Press Office and mark it for the attention of Lucy Stone:
Email: pressoffice@ecmwf.int
Further information
A copy of last year’s Global Climate Highlights report can be found here.
About ECMWF
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is a world leader in numerical weather prediction, providing high-quality data for weather forecasts and environmental monitoring. As an intergovernmental organisation, ECMWF collaborates internationally to serve its 35 Member and Co-operating States and the wider community with global weather predictions, data, and training. ECMWF’s research and operational centre operates 24/7, focusing on medium- and long-range forecasts, and maintains one of the world’s largest meteorological data archives, including ERA5, funded by the EU Copernicus programme.
Our mission: Deliver global numerical weather predictions focusing on the medium-range and monitoring of the Earth system to and with our Member States.