Connecting climate knowledge – talking about a revolution

Natural-color image of sea ice off the coast of East Antarctica’s Princess Astrid Coast (Image courtesy of NASA)
A quiet revolution is happening in the climate information world, in what feels like a remarkable outbreak of collaboration, innovation and joined-up thinking.

Turning Data into Knowledge: Climate Tagger

Climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, yet the global response remains divided. Climate Tagger is a new suite of software tools to help strengthen and unite organizations and individuals using knowledge to fight climate change, improve resiliency and further green growth across the world.

reegle Translate to Break Down Language Barriers in the Global Fight against Climate Change, Changement Climatique, Cambio Climatico, Mudança Climática, and Klimawandel.

REEEP (Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership) launched today reegle Translate (translate.reegle.info), a free online service to help bridge language gaps within the growing global climate and development community. Precision is critical when dealing with technical terminology – reegle Translate helps experts, students, politicians, entrepreneurs and others connect across borders and languages, without sacrificing accuracy and exactness.

FEATURE: Climate Knowledge Brokers ‘join the dots’ for users of climate information

CDKN's Mairi Dupar reports on the Climate Knowledge Brokers Group 2014 Workshop after release of the full workshop report.

CKB Group releases 2014 Annual Workshop Report

CKB Group: Navigating Oceans of Information

This report summarizes the discussions and conclusions from the 2014 Climate Knowledge Brokers workshop, held from 4-5 October 2014. The workshop was jointly organized by Climate Knowledge Brokers Group Coordination Hub, the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), and was hosted by the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) in Brighton, UK.

COP21 Paris

In 2015, France will be chairing the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21/CMP11), which will be held in Paris in late 2015. This Conference is a crucial event, because it needs to result in a new international climate agreement, applicable to all countries.

Open Data & Knowledge Management

Breaking barriers to data and knowledge sharing, enabling technology and knowledge transfer, and fostering collaboration to drive climate action.

Market Acceleration for Green Growth

REEEP invests in clean energy markets to help developing countries expand modern energy services and improve lives; increase prosperity and economic dynamism; and keep CO2 emissions in check - markets that accelerate green growth. REEEP’s tools are modern clean energy technologies - renewable energy and energy efficiency - market forces, and knowledge management.

Let’s hear it for the curators

Geoff Barnard, Strategic Advisor for Knowledge Management, Climate and Development Knowldge Network, has been working with website managers who pull together climate and development information from many sources – ‘climate knowledge brokers’ – to find ways they can coordinate among each other and make information easier to find by end users.

How to avoid drowning in a sea of climate data

Anita Makri of SciDev.net writes about the CKB Group's official COP20 Side Event: Innovation and Collaboration for Transforming Knowledge into Climate Action: Creating a “Climate Knowledge Grid”.

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