the climate knowledge brokers manifesto - slides

The Climate Knowledge Brokers

MANIFESTO

Informed decision making for a climate resilient future

The Challenge Ahead

Society is only now grasping the full extent to which our lives, jobs and environment are sensitive to a changing climate. Effective decision making will be needed in many areas if we are to build a climate resilient future.

Overview

• CKB’s vision is a world in which people make climate sensitive decisions fully informed by the best available climate knowledge.

• The Manifesto was developed in a collaborative process by the Climate Knowledge Brokers Group (CKB) and describes the essential role of climate knowledge brokers in achieving that vision.

The keystone of an arch is the one piece without which the rest will fall.

Similarly, without effective knowledge brokers,

climate information providers and users are destined to remain unconnected. The

users' needs go unmet and the effort spent producing the information could be wasted.

Meeting user needs with tailored information

Dimensions of the climate knowledge broker role

The Climate Knowledge Brokers Group

The CKB Group is a network of more than 150 organisations and professionals focused on

improving the quality and use of climate-related knowledge in decision making.

www.climateknowledgebrokers.net

Contributors and commenters to the Manifesto came from …

Contributors and commenters to the Manifesto came from …

Contributors and commenters to the Manifesto came from …

Principles of CKB

The Invitation • With funders, we want to explain why more

coherent and strategic funding for climate knowledge brokers is necessary. We welcome a dialogue.

• With climate knowledge brokers, we want to

work together to improve our effectiveness in meeting user needs. We welcome your participation.

Funders and acknowledgements

We would like to thank our funders and individuals (see page 124ff of the Manifesto) who contributed to this publication. The Manifesto was funded by:

Additional information Manifesto Website: • We have created a website for this manifesto which, as well

as hosting the pdf version, also provides access to transcripts of some of the interviews we conducted and to examples of successful climate knowledge brokering initiatives: manifesto.climateknowledgebrokers.net

Get in touch with CKB: • www.climateknowledgebrokers.net • info@climateknowledgebrokers.net • Twitter: @ckbrokers