This session has welcomed the participants to the conference, Stockholm and Sweden with the following speakers:

 

• Rolf Brennerfelt - Director General of Swedish Meteorological & Hydrological Institute (SMHI)

• Jan Olsson - Environment Ambassador, Ministry of the Environment and Energy, Sweden

• Filipe Lucio - Head of Global Framework for Climate Services, WMO: Linking the GFCS with CORDEX (remote)

• David Carlson - Director World Climate Research Programme

• Filippo Giorgi and William Gutowski - co-chairs WCRP CORDEX: A bried history of CORDEX

• Nina Kirchner - Director for Research at Bolin Centre, Stockholm University : Bolin Centre for Climate Research