Before the May Day, the approved “2006 Open Tasks on Climate Change” were announced in the website of LCS. Totally 14 tasks applied by 13 departments were approved, including IAP/CAS, Nanjing Institute of geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS), NUIST, China University of Geosciences, Yangzhou University, Mianyang Normal Institute and departments of CMA. The endorsement of contracts is now in process.

      The directory of “2007 Open Tasks on Climate Change” application will be issued in November 2007. Please pay attention to it on the occasion.