Event TabsSummaryDates: Monday, October 22, 2018 to Tuesday, October 23, 2018Location: Rome Italy IT Type: Meeting Documentation Plan Agenda Item Document Title n/a INF. 1 INFORMATION TO PARTICIPANTS n/a INF. 2 PARTICIPANT LIST 1 n/a OPENING OF THE SESSION 2 n/a APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA 2.1 2.1 Agenda 2.1.1 2.1.1 Annotated Provisional Agenda REV. 1 2.2 2.2 Provisional Programme (as of 18 October 2018) 3 n/a REVIEW OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE LAST MEETING OF THE PAC 3.1 Status of implementation of National Frameworks for Climate Services 3.2 Institutional Resources available from PAC members Template 3.3 White Paper clarifying the concept of User Interface Platform 3.4 Country-level mapping of climate service initiatives coordination 3.5 Events where coordination could be pursued 3.6 Brochure on key successes and challenges of GFCS Annex 1 Brochure draft outline 3.7 Linking GFCS with major policy agendas 4 n/a TECHNICAL SESSION FOCUSING ON TECHNICAL ADVANCES AND DEVELOPMENTS IN SERVICE DELIVERY Technical Session Programme 5 5.1 REVIEW OF THE STATUS OF WORK OF TASK FORCES AND WGs ESTABLISHED BY THE IBCS MC AND REVIEW OF THE REPORT OF THE TASKFORCE ON GFCS Report of the Taskforce on Governance, Management and Finances of the GFCS CORRIGENDUM p. 11 Comments received and responses by the Taskforce Initial Draft Report of the Taskforce 6 n/a RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE PAC ON THE REPORT OF THE TASKFORCE ON GOVERNANCE, MANAGEMENT AND FINANCES OF THE GFCS TO THE IBCS MC 7 n/a ANY OTHER BUSINESS 8 n/a DATE OF NEXT MEETING PresentationsDay 1: Review of the implementation of the recommendations of the last meeting of PAC-8 in Oslo, Norway Day 2: Chapter on GFCS Governance Chapter on GFCS Management Technical Session: 01 - Guidance on Good Practices for Climate Services User Engagement 02 - Progress with decadal predictions 03 - Climate Services for Agriculture and Food Security 04 - Regional Climate Outlook Forums review 05 - Latest advances on operational Flood Forecasting and Early Warnings 06 - Enhancing the climate science basis of the climate rationale in GCF funded activities 07 - Progress in Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Predictions (S2S) 08 - WHO Climate and Health Priorities and Climate Service Applications 09 - Climate Change Service 10 - Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) 11 - Climate services in the US and Caribbean 12 - Links to EC call for proposals under Horizon 2020 – Climate Services for Africa
