Prof. Jelle Bijma, chair of the scientific committee of the EUROCORES programme EuroCLIMATE (Climate Variability & Past, Present & Future Carbon Cycle) speaks about the outcomes and benefits of the programme. Jelle Bijma is a biogeochemist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, and President of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Biogeosciences Division.