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Climate services challenge the traditional interface between users and providers of climate information as it requires the establishment of a dialogue between subjects, who often have limited knowledge of each-other’s activities and practices. Increasing the understanding and usability of climate information for societal use has become a major challenge where economic growth, and social development crucially depends on adaptation to climate variability and change.
To this regard, climate services do not only create user-relevant climate information, but also stimulate the need to quantify vulnerabilities and come up with appropriate adaptation solutions that can be applied in practice. This session invites contributions from all fields in which climate information is used in decision-making processes, including agriculture, renewable energy, banking, water management, tourism and any other societal sector dependent on climate information.
The operational generation, management and delivery of climate services poses a number of new challenges to the traditional way of accessing and distributing climate data. With a private sector growing and playing an increasingly important role as a service provider, it is important to understand the roles and responsibilities of publicly funded climate data, information and services, as well as the standardisation process for climate services.
This session aims to gather best practices and lessons learnt, for how climate services can successfully facilitate adaptation to climate variability and change by providing climate information that is tailored to the real user need.
Contributions are encouraged from public and private climate services providers, as well as from international efforts (GFCS, CSP, …); European Initiatives (HEU, ERA4CS, C3S, ClimatEurope, ECRA, JPI-Climate…) as well as national, regional and local experiences.