The International Conference on Ozone and Plants was held on May 18-21, 2014, in Beijing, China, hosted by the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (http://english.rcees.cas.cn/), on behalf of the IUFRO Research Group 7.01.00 “Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change on Forest Ecosystems” (http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/ division-7/70000/70100) and the ICP Vegetation (http:// icpvegetation.ceh.ac.uk). A special session was organised by the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (http://htap.org) of the UNECE Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution Convention (http://www.unece.org/env/lrtap). The conference gathered more than 110 scientists from 17 countries to share the state of the art of ozone research and discuss scientific gaps in the understanding of the interaction between ozone and plants. The 2nd International Conference on Ozone and Plants is scheduled for 2017.