Final results from Joint CIRCLE‐2 SHARE and JPI CLIMATE Scoping Workshop on Climate Services. Now available for download.

This workshop was a follow up of a previews workshop "Bridging Climate Research Data and the Needs of the Impact Community" (see here)

The workshop provided a first overview of climate services initiatives across Europe. It also started to shape a possible new joint initiative in this domain. Tha main conclusions were:

• Mapping of climate services activities is crucial and should be done as a first step prior to coordination of activities: need to have a more specific format for inventory;
• As an overall guideline for climate services, all information should be framed from the user perspective(s);
• Acknowledging the need for a platform of European Climate Services;
• Interesting to explore differences between countries with or without ongoing climate services programmes through mapping and reporting;
• Establishing a protocol and related tools is more effective than setting a number of user needs that maybe will not be relevant over time;
• Important to consider the feedback process between investors/providers and users (see presentation) 
• For sustaining the interest of users it is crucial to establish users' communities driven by demand for knowledge and results at different levels (cities, regions, country);
• Such processes ideally take place in interaction with users/user group representatives which can act as purveyors (or multipliers);
• Climate services may play a role in providing advice on how to exploit synergies between adaptation and mitigation strategies (consultancy for adaptation);
• The role of CIRCLE‐2 is to support research and foster national dialogue, providing links and interface between JPI CLIMATE members and CIRCLE‐2 partners.

FINAL REPORT - HERE

Presentations - HERE

Relevant report on "Data demands of the climate impact community" - HERE