Accessing and Using Climate Data and Information in Fragile, Data-Poor States
Publisher: International Institute for Sustainable Development, The International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Author(s): Simon Mason, Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Pietro Ceccato, and Alec Crawford
Date: 2015
Topics: Climate Change, Data and Technologies
This report provides peacebuilding practitioners with guidance for accessing and using climate data and information in fragile contexts. It describes some of the challenges to generating, accessing and understanding climate information in contexts of state fragility. It introduces the types of climate information relevant to national and international peacebuilding practitioners operating in fragile contexts and provides a review of relevant and accessible climate data. The report addresses how climate information can be effectively used in a peacebuilding context, and highlights some of the immediate priorities and sequencing needs for fragile states attempting to rebuild their national capacities to generate climate information.