The ‘Climate Predictability and Inter-Regional Linkages Pune Stakeholder Event: Paleo/present/future monsoon variability and implications for environment, policy and society’, which will be organised from 18-20 March 2020 at Pune, India, has recently been endorsed by CLIVAR SSG. The workshop aims to bring researchers and stakeholders from academic and non-academic communities together from three projects of the JPI-Belmont Forum viz., GOTHAM, PACMEDY, and BITMAP, which provide a complementary focus on the Indian monsoon variability and change by considering different space and time scales.