Organizers

Background

Accessing climate-related services and to gather climate data and information can improve countries’ resilience to climate change. According to a report by OECD, capacity development to access such services and data is a key enabler for climate action and ambition. However, the use of climate data for research and applications in developing countries is still limited. There are many barriers explaining why developing countries have poor availability of and access to quality climate services and data. When available, understanding and using climate data so it can support end users is often challenging due to a range of barriers e.g., outdated or no national data policy, low financial investment, including for maintenance of equipment, limited dissemination capacity and tools, high access costs, limited or no collaboration with communication and mobile phone companies. 

Objectives

• Proposing a technical panel discussion looking at the current bottlenecks that partner countries experience in relation to climate in collaboration with services and data. 
• Presenting a number of concrete and practical solutions that have proved successful in supporting partner countries.

Moderators

• Melody Braun, Senior Research Staff Associate, International Research Institute for Climate and Society and Columbia Climate School 
• Jens Sedemund, Head of DAC Environment Secretariat OECD

Speakers

• John Furlow, Director, International Research Institute for Climate and Society and Columbia Climate School 
• Cathy Krüger, Paris₂₁ - OECD
• Georgina Campbell Flatter, Executive Director, TommorowNow 
• Amir Delju, Senior Scientific Officer, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Presentations

• Melody Braun -International Research Institute for Climate and Society - EN
• Mathías Jara - Instituto Nacional de Estadística - EN
• Shannon Degraaf  - Meteorological Service of Canada - EN
• Beatriz Vaca Dominguez - MiCRO - EN
• Katharina Lotzen -Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit -  EN
• Ronald Dianga -TomorrowNow -  EN
• Marie-Dominique Leroux - Agence Française de Développement -  EN
• Carmen Gonzalez Romero - International Research Institute for Climate and Society - EN
• Georgina Campbell Flatter - TomorrowNow - EN

Event Recording