Need for a common typology of climate services

Bessembinder, Janette; Terrado, Marta; Hewitt, Chris; Garrett, Natalie; Kotova, Lola; Buonocore, Mauro; Groenland, Rob

doi:10.1016/j.cliser.2019.100135

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“…Since AR5 and SROCC (Chapter 2) there has been considerable progress in understanding climate information user needs (Baztan et al, 2017;Golding et al, 2017aGolding et al, , b, 2019Bruno Soares et al, 2018a;Hewitt and Golding, 2018;Singh et al, 2018;Sivakumar and Lucio, 2018;Bessembinder et al, 2019;Hewitt et al, 2020b;Sultan et al, 2020;Y. Wang et al, 2020), better facilitation of user engagement (Buontempo et al, 2014(Buontempo et al, , 2018Buontempo and Hewitt, 2018) and an appreciation from climate scientists of the need to involve communication specialists and social scientists to support the co-design and co-development process that is fundamental to a successful climate service (Buontempo et al, 2014;Gregow et al, 2016;Damm et al, 2020).…”

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Climate Change Information for Regional Impact and for Risk Assessment

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Climate Change 2021 – The Physical Science Basis

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Climate Change Information for Regional Impact and for Risk Assessment

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Climate Change 2021 – The Physical Science Basis

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“…So far, there have been extensive research and discussions around the (1) typologies of climate service formats, users and providers (e.g. Bessembinder et al 2019;Cortekar et al 2020;Visscher et al 2020); (2) forms of uptake and uses of climate services (e.g. Yegbemey and Egah 2021;Tart et al 2020;VanderMolen et al 2020); (3) ways to create more useful and usable climate information (e.g.…”

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“…Nevertheless, user surveys tend to focus on climate data and products (such as required variables/indices, spatial-temporal scales, portals for accessing data, intended applications) (e.g. Bessembinder et al 2019;Larsen et al 2021;Soares et al 2018) or levels of user sophistication (Skelton et al 2019). Some acknowledge the importance to users of the legitimacy of the supplier (Tang and Dessai 2012), as well as the different scientific and social contexts shaping (national) climate scenarios (Skelton 1 Here, we adopt the IPCC (2021) definition of resilience as 'The capacity of interconnected social, economic and ecological systems to cope with a hazardous event, trend or disturbance, responding or reorganising in ways that maintain their essential function, identity and structure.…”

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Tailoring climate information and services for adaptation actors with diverse capabilities

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With louder demands in public discourse for action on adaptation to climate change, efforts to improve the provision and use of climate information and services (CIS) are also gaining prominence. Drawing on literature about uptake of CIS for climate risk assessment and adaptation, plus our own practical experiences, this Essay examines modes of user-provider interaction in CIS. By employing a customer-tailor analogy, three overlapping types of CIS transaction are identified: ‘off-the-peg’, ‘outsourced’ and ‘bespoke’. Evident across all modes are ‘loyalty card’ customers who return to the same provider(s). We then offer a set of prompts to facilitate more meaningful engagement and dialogue between adaptation actors and providers. These questions could also be used to seed discussions within communities that research and provide training in CIS, as well as amongst stakeholders, funders and other institutions involved in the governance of CIS systems. Such searching and timely conversations could advance a more tailored approach to CIS delivery, regardless of the technical and financial starting point of users and providers.

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“…46 However, up to now climate services have focused on providing primary climate change information (e.g., from climate change projections about increased temperature, extreme precipitation) or impact projections of climate change (e.g., flooding, droughts) to inform protection and adaptation measures in specific sectors, such as agriculture and forestry, water, energy, and urban planning. [47][48][49] An analogous climate change scenario service for user-oriented provision of scenario information has not been available so far.…”

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Climate change scenario services: From science to facilitating action

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The goal of limiting global warming to well below 2 C as set out in the Paris Agreement calls for a strategic assessment of societal pathways and policy strategies. Besides policy makers, new powerful actors from the private sector, including finance, have stepped up to engage in forward-looking assessments of a Paris-compliant and climate-resilient future. Climate change scenarios have addressed this demand by providing scientific insights on the possible pathways ahead to limit warming in line with the Paris climate goal. Despite the increased interest, the potential of climate change scenarios has not been fully unleashed, mostly due to a lack of an intermediary service that provides guidance and access to climate change scenarios. This perspective presents the concept of a climate change scenario service, its components, and a prototypical implementation to overcome this shortcoming aiming to make scenarios accessible to a broader audience of societal actors and decision makers. ll

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Need for a common typology of climate services

Cited by 24 publications

References 17 publications

Climate Change Information for Regional Impact and for Risk Assessment

Climate Change Information for Regional Impact and for Risk Assessment

Tailoring climate information and services for adaptation actors with diverse capabilities

Climate change scenario services: From science to facilitating action

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