Research project
Climateurope2 - Supporting and standardizing climate services in Europe and beyond
- Start date: 1 September 2022
- End date: 28 February 2027
- Funder: UK Research and Innovation
- Value: £90,806
- Primary investigator: Professor Suraje Dessai
- Co-investigators: Andrea Taylor
- Postgraduate students: Elizabeth McIntyre
Climateurope2 is a 4.5-year Horizon Europe project that addresses the need for timely delivery and effective use of climate information. The project aims to support the climate services community and propose standardisation procedures for future equitable and quality-assured climate services, useful for decision making in all sectors of society. Climateurope2 is a project that works to develop standardisation procedures and recommendations for climate services, while supporting and bringing together the European climate services community. In addition, the project strives to enhance the uptake of quality-assured climate services to support adaptation and mitigation to climate change and variability. This will underpin the leading role of Europe when it comes to the production of trustworthy, user-relevant knowledge to manage climate risks and enhance adaptive capacities, while benefiting climate services at the global scale. The project will initially identify the support and standardisation needs of climate services, including criteria for certification and labelling, as well as the user-driven criteria needed to support climate action. This information will be used to propose a taxonomy of climate services, suggest community-based good practices and guidelines, and propose standards where possible. Using approaches from social sciences and humanities, as well as extensive technical expertise, a community of practice will be built for this standardisation through the Climateurope2 platform. Furthermore, co-production and stakeholder engagement in climate services will be addressed through the creation of a network of different European climate services actors. A large variety of interactive and innovative activities will be organised to support this community, such as festivals, webstivals, art installations and roadshows. This will help engage with not only the communities involved in the development of climate services, but also those not familiar with these services, particularly those in the policy and business domains, as well as underrepresented groups and disciplines.