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The 27th GCOS Steering Committee meeting takes place in Paris, France from 28 to 31 October 2019.

Please find draft agenda here (version 25/10/2019).
Please find draft list of participants here (25/10/2019).
Please find logistical informations here.
Further documents and presentations in the table below (numbering according to items on agenda):

Monday 28 October 2019
Item No.	Item	Presenter	Details/Targeted Outcome	Documents
1.	Welcome
1.1	Welcome of the Host	Albert Fischer
1.2	Welcome of the SC Chairperson	Stephen Briggs	Adoption of the Agenda	Doc. 1.0 Agenda SC-26 Report, FMI, Helsinki, Finland, 2018
2.	Sponsors remarks: Expectations and Perspectives			Sponsors Letter
2.1	WMO	Lars Peter Riishojgaard	WMO Reform and Restructuring of Secretariat	MoU 1998 GCOS Programme Review: Synthesis report, GCOS-181 New WMO Structure (presented at the Townhall meeting held 4 October) WMO presentation UNESCO-IOC presentation
2.2	UNESCO-IOC	Albert Fischer
2.3	UN Environment	Hartwig Kremer
2.4	ISC	Mathieu Denis
2.5	Discussion on Sponsor's Letter			Collection of points for the response to the Sponsor's Letter
3.	GCOS Activity Report	Carolin Richter	Information on: Activity Report Joint Panels Meeting 2019 GCOS Time plan until 2022	Document 3.0, Activity Report JPM Report, GCOS-228 GCOS Time plan until 2022 List of key meetings Director's Presentation
4.	GCOS Goes Green	Valentin Aich	Presenting the Green Strategy Report and Statistics	GCOS Goes Green Draft 2019 GCOS Green Preliminary Report Presentation
5.	Communication	Valentin Aich	GCOS Website Climate data Website ECV Factsheets	ECV Factsheets Presentation
Tuesday 29 October 2019
6.	Expert Panels Report		Focus on critical issues and request for guidance from Steering Committee Joint Panels Meeting Outcomes	JPM Report, GCOS-228
6.1	OOPC / GOOS Panels	Bernadette Sloyan		Presentation
6.2	TOPC	Wolfgang Wagner		Presentation
6.3	AOPC	Ken Holmlund		Presentation
6.4	Discussions		WMO Climate Data Quality Assessment New application areas for ECV requirements?	Draft manual High Quality Global Data Management Framework for Climate Presentation_Discussion_Cllimatedata_Catalogue Presentation_discussion_application_areas
7.	GCOS Work Plan
7.1	Presentation of Work Plan 2019-2022	Carolin Richter		GCOS Work Plan and Guidelines for updating the GCOS 2015 Status Report and the 2016 Implementation Plan - v7, 11 July 2019 Presentation
7.2	Climate Observation Conference	Carolin Richter	Decision	Decision 7.2 Presentation
7.3	Status Report 2021	Carolin Richter	Decision	Decision 7.3 Presentation
7.4	General Discussion on GCOS Workplan	Carolin Richter	Decision	Decision 7.4
Wednesday 30 October 2019
8.	Evolution of Observations and Network
8.1	Outcome of OceanObs'19	Toste Tanhua		Presentation
8.2	Global Baseline Observing Network (GBON)	Sue Barrell / Lars Peter Riishojgaard	Decision	Cg-18 document on GBON Decision 8.2 Presentation
8.3	GCOS Surface Reference Network (GSRN)	Ken Holmlund / Caterina Tassone	Decision	GSRN Report Decision 8.3 Presentation
8.4	Observations for Science	Han Dolman	Outcome of Joint Panels Meeting, Marrakesh Climate Cycles papers	JPM Report, GCOS-228 Presentation
8.5	Observations for & of Adaptation	Hartwig Kremer / Valentin Aich	Decision	Presentation JPM SC TT Adaptation Presentation JPM TOPC TT Adaptation Draft strategy for GCOS to support observations for adaptation Executive Summary of Observations for Adaptation Task Team report (TOPC TT) Presentation
8.6	Regional Workshops	Tim Oakley	Decision	Decision 8.6 Presentation
8.7	GCOS Cooperation Mechanism (GCM)	Tim Oakley	2018 GSN/GUAN Performance and GCOS Cooperation Mechanism update	Document 8.7 Presentation
9.	Partners
9.1	GOOS	Toste Tanhua	Partnership between GCOS and GOOS	GOOS 2030 Strategy GOOS Implementation road map Presentation
9.2	IPCC	Youba Sokona / Thelma Krug	AR6 Special reports	Presentation
9.3	UNFCCC	Florin Vladu	Systematic observations: supporting the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the Global Stocktake	WGMS letter of concern to COP 25 GCOS Statement to SBSTA 49 WMO Statement on GCOS to SBSTA 50 Presentation
9.4	GEO	Sara Venturini	Update on GEO and ideas for GEO-GCOS collaboration
9.5	ISC	Mathieu Denis	Strategic updates on the ISC, with a focus on ISC's new Action Plan	Presentation
9.6	WCRP	Pascale Braconnot
Thursday 31 October 2019
10.	Budget	Carolin Richter	Endorse Budget	GCOS Budget 2019
11.	ToRs Expert Panel Members	Carolin Richter	Decision	Decision 11
12.	Any other business
13.	Decisions and Actions	Carolin Richter	Actions from GCOS SC-26	Document 13.0
14.	In Camera Session (if needed)	Carolin Richter	Membership
End of the Meeting