Background

Founded in 2024, Climate Knowledge Collective (CKC) is a global knowledge network dedicated to centering the lived knowledge, strategies, and leadership of women transforming climate action in communities around the world. 

As climate change intensifies, particularly across the Global South, CKC documents and amplifies women-led climate adaptation initiatives. During this PCCB Network webinar, we will introduce a prototype of an open-access interactive knowledge hub designed to connect climate-impacted and marginalized communities worldwide. Our initial case studies featured women's oral histories and geospatial StoryMaps that integrate local narratives, community geographies, and climate data.

We invite PCCB Network participants to evaluate this prototype by exploring its geospatial StoryMaps, searchable database, and data-filtering capabilities, and to share feedback on how these features might be adapted to support their own capacity-building initiatives. By connecting community-generated knowledge across regions, we hope this platform can strengthen peer learning, support locally led adaptation and contribute to more equitable capacity-building efforts under the UNFCCC.

Objectives

• Introduce the Climate Knowledge Collective's prototype collection hub, featuring a geospatial, interactive database that integrates oral histories, multimedia storytelling, and spatial data.
• Demonstrate how collaboration, transparency, and co-creation can help ensure that women climate leaders from the Global South retain authorship, agency, and narrative authority over their lived experiences.
• Gather feedback from participants on the prototype's usability, relevance, and potential applications, while identifying individuals and organizations that could benefit from an open-access platform for documenting climate adaptation initiatives and local knowledge.
• Foster collaborative dialogue through breakout discussions that explore how digital knowledge platforms can strengthen climate action by:
  • Connecting micro-level narratives of climate adaptation with regional and global patterns of climate vulnerability, resilience, and resourcefulness.
  • Identifying opportunities for interdisciplinary research, education, and cross-sector collaboration.
  • Exploring ways to link qualitative oral histories with open global datasets (such as World Bank climate indicators) to create richer, more connected digital knowledge ecosystems.
• Strengthen local capacity, knowledge exchange, and evidence-informed climate decision-making.

Agenda