Abstract
The International Conference on Climate Services (ICCS) is the meeting of the Climate Services
Partnership (CSP), taking place every one to two years. The ICCS5 in February/March 2017 was held
in Cape Town, South Africa, jointly organised by the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS)
and the University of Cape Town (UCT). The conference was generously sponsored by the German
Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the main donator for the meeting.
Moreover, other sponsors contributed to making the event possible: the Stockholm Environmental
Institute (SEI) and the World Bank (WB).