The United Nations Education Science and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) will launch the first-ever planet-wide climate research programme involving nearly 70 countries. Under the programme CLIVAR (Climate Variability and Predictability) existing global data will be collected to study the complex interactions among the atmosphere, oceans and land and come up with forecasting models, said UNESCO sources. "Various studies have been made in weather forecasting over the past 20 years and the CLIVAR programme will help take things further,' said an UNESCO spokesperson. CLIVAR was initiated after a meeting of scientists from nearly 70 countries at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris in December 1998. The programme will extend the study of El Ni