Climateurope2

Climateurope2 works to develop standardisation procedures and recommendations for climate services, while supporting and bringing together the European climate services community. In addition, the project strives to enhance the uptake of quality-assured climate services to support adaptation and mitigation to climate change and variability. This will underpin the leading role of Europe when it comes to the production of trustworthy, user-relevant knowledge to manage climate risks and enhance adaptive capacities, while benefiting climate services at the global scale.

The project will initially identify the support and standardisation needs of climate services, including criteria for certification and labelling, as well as the user-driven criteria needed to support climate action. This information will be used to propose a taxonomy of climate services, suggest community-based good practices and guidelines, and propose standards where possible. Using approaches from social sciences and humanities, as well as extensive technical expertise, a community of practice will be built for this standardisation through the Climateurope2 platform.

Furthermore, co-production and stakeholder engagement in climate services will be addressed through the creation of a network of different European climate services actors. A large variety of interactive and innovative activities will be organised to support this community, such as festivals, webstivals, art installations and roadshows. This will help engage with not only the communities involved in the development of climate services, but also those not familiar with these services, particularly those in the policy and business domains, as well as underrepresented groups and disciplines.

Project goals

The main objectives of Climateurope2 include:

• developing standardisation procedures for climate services
• supporting an equitable European climate services community
• enhancing the uptake of quality-assured climate services to support adaptation and mitigation to climate change and variability.

The climate services community faces two key challenges: the need to support the development of climate services, and the development of methods and criteria that favour the quality assessment of the different components of a climate service to assure that it is trustworthy. Climateurope2 addresses these challenges by formulating recommendations to standardise the service practices, as well as engaging and supporting the climate services community, taking stock of what has been developed so far. The project also enhances the uptake of quality-assured climate services to support climate adaptation and mitigation.