Co-production of climate services: challenges and enablers

Frontiers in Climate, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 7

Published: March 25, 2025

Climate change is often connected to an increase in weather extreme frequencies and severity, demanding increased necessity mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, adapting building resilience these changes impacts. This happens a background of climate variability that already impacts several climate-sensitive sectors. There urgent need for fit-for-purpose services service professionals support mitigation adaptation efforts. Co-development can enhance their usefulness (context-specific fit purpose), usability (easy access handling), usage (transfer upscale) by ensuring appropriate iterative engagement between providers users, development timely, reliable usable products, the provision users truly accessible manner. Achieving co-development asks reframing scaled-up transdisciplinary, sustained, multidirectional approaches diversity information providers. For processes, it key also address further minimize or overcome barriers co-production, while supporting enabling accelerating mechanisms, better preparation including National Meteorological Hydrological Services, private actors, civil society, academia interdisciplinary transdisciplinary work, enhanced individual institutional capacity governance mechanisms.

Language: Английский

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A co-design approach for stakeholder engagement and knowledge integration in flood risk management in Vhembe district, South Africa

Frontiers in Climate, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 7

Published: March 28, 2025

Introduction Participatory methods and collaboration among diverse knowledge holders are critical to soliciting multiple, often competing, stakeholder perspectives systems for enhancing flood management. Methods This study uses a participatory co-design workshop, post-workshop survey, key informant interviews establish the utility of in engaging stakeholders, including flood-prone communities, management and/or adaptation South Africa’s Vhembe district. The workshop brought together policymakers, practitioners, political actors, government agencies, local authorities, traditional leaders, four communities. It was conducted region last quarter 2023. At that time, discussions on mainstreaming climate change disaster risk reduction development planning process were underway. Results results show stakeholders able drivers risk, challenges associated with flooding, current response measures, barriers effective response. However, an urgent need more active role communities Stakeholders use insights from dissemination early warning networks created during call action toward community-based system premised genuine between other rather than any specific interventions. fostering open district’s systems. Conclusion concludes approach is enriched by context provided (top-down collaborating bottom-up) even beyond workshop. useful developing implementing future

Language: Английский

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Towards CS4L&D: Advancing climate services for loss and damage

Climate Services, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 38, P. 100563 - 100563

Published: April 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Bridging the communication gap in agrometeorological services: Enhancing the uptake and effectiveness for users in developing countries

Climate Services, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 37, P. 100531 - 100531

Published: Dec. 10, 2024

Language: Английский

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