The MedCLIVAR conferences offer to researchers from all relevant fields the opportunity to address open questions on the climate of the Mediterranean region and to present results, tools and methods for better understanding its complexity. Each MedCLIVAR conference is a forum where to contribute towards strategies to respond to climate change pressures on ecosystems and human societies, with discussion on impacts, adaptation, mitigation and policy solutions and options in the Mediterranean region.

The MedCLIVAR 2018 Conference will be held from 18^th to 21^st September 2018 at the University of Belgrade at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in the Belgrade city center. It will be the fifth of the series organized by MedCLIVAR, following MedCLIVAR 2011 (Lecce, Italy), MedCLIVAR 2012 (Madrid, Spain), MedCLIVAR 2014 (Ankara, Turkey), MedCLIVAR 2016 (Athens, Greece).

MedCLIVAR 2018 will include all traditional MedCLIVAR topics and will focus on creating bridges between scientists, research groups, and scholars dealing with typical Mediterranean climates, such as exist in areas of California, Chile, the Western Cape of South Africa, Western and Southern Australia.

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