CliC's main sponsor is the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), whose mission is to facilitate analysis and prediction of Earth system variability and change for use in an increasing range of practical applications of direct relevance, benefit and value to society.

As part of this mission WCRP supports 4 core projects including CliC and one other major project (CORDEX).

Climate Variability and Predictability	Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment	Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate	Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment