Adaptation Services

Specifically, we address:

• Sectors: developing markets for the different economic sectors
• Climate information: ensure the information available is used responsibly
• Time: influence decision makers to reduce the time taken to act and implement climate change adaptation strategies

We develop innovative tools and services to increase the adaptation capacity and resilience of societies, infrastructure, and cities to the anticipated climate change impacts. This is challenging because decision-makers – despite a general knowledge of the potential medium to long-term importance of climate impacts for their operations – find it extremely difficult to incorporate these factors in today’s investment decisions.

This is due to the widely dispersed information, limited understanding of involved uncertainties, and the still underdeveloped expertise of translating climate data into concrete impact chains for different sectors. Whereas Climate Services are a rapidly emerging field strongly influenced by WMO, we will focus on taking this knowledge and translating it to concrete services and solutions further downstream to make a real impact.