Every major social, economic and environmental activity is sensitive to weather and climate anomalies (e.g. extremes), and in our ever changing climate these anomalies are becoming ever more significant factors. The affected sectors include water supplies and security; agriculture and food security; and health, energy, finance, transport, retailing, tourism. Actors in all these sectors are increasingly interested in early warning and advisory systems.

The work of CLIMATE-INSIGHT directly builds the capacity of organisations to respond to weather events in the short-term; and to climate variability and change over longer-time scales. We enable more effective use of climate information at all levels of your organisation.

CLIMATE-INSIGHT is a boundary organization whose mission is actively bridging the gaps between different information communities and differing types of organisations. Our basis is in long-standing experience across disciplines, issues and sectors. This has given our team a robust grasp of opposing paradigms, varying perspectives and particular lingos that prevail - and sometimes stand as barriers - amongst information users and providers.

CLIMATE-INSIGHT has an in-depth understanding of weather and climate information management and the risks associated with weather and climate anomalies. Likewise, CLIMATE-INSIGHT knows how to get to grips with the needs and attitudes of a diversity of information users ranging from government departments, public agencies and private companies. We seek to build-up, with your input, a long-term relationship in which innovative solutions to manage your climate change risks are clearly formulated. All this is achieved by developing management tools which meet your requests and needs.

Below is the list of services provided by CLIMATE-INSIGHT divided in services for:

1. Businesses, government authorities, aid organisations and civil society bodies


2. Scientific users, international organisations and specialists


3. Other programmes and speciality services

For businesses, government authorities, aid organisations and civil society bodies:

• CLIMATE-INSIGHT supplies appropriate advice, fitted to organisational needs, that enables you to make better use of weather and climate information. This covers all aspects of Climate Risk Management, so you can build-up climate change adaptation capacities, strategies and policies for your entire organisation. Equally, we can help you analyse projects and programmes for climate risks, during business case development and due diligence;


• CLIMATE-INSIGHT vulnerability and risk assessments will examine your current business model for exposure to climate-related issues on all time scales. For example, we can review the recent and current impacts of extreme weather on your services and supply chains, as well as on behaviour of your customers. As well, we would use the best information available from models and scenarios, to gauge how your risks might evolve, as climate change generates even more significant effects on your model over time. By identifying adaptation gaps and priority needs, we can generate an Adaptation Action Plans that can be adopted by your organisation;


• CLIMATE-INSIGHT services will sustainably build your climate adaptation capacity. As part of a bespoke capacity-building programme, we can undertake effective training in climate science and information interpretation. We will facilitate meetings and workshops that build awareness and skills of staff at all levels, as well as stakeholders in your business. Our events are designed and led by experienced trainers and are delivered by climate information specialists;


• CLIMATE-INSIGHT can design, management and evaluate projects involving the impacts of weather, climate, climate variability and climate change impacts on commercial, social, government and development activities;


• Through the high-quality relationships CLIMATE-INSIGHT has been building between information producers and users, you can rely on our social capital to continue to provide you with key insights within an evolving context.

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For scientific users, international organisations and specialists:

• CLIMATE-INSIGHT assists weather and climate data-producing centres in promoting their products. Our assistance will effectively narrow the existing science–policy gaps that are obstacles in your area of expertise and limiting the impacts of your climate information. As experts in the socio-economic benefits of climate services, we can profile the needs of your typical information users, and together we can develop action programmes that support the promotion of products and services;


• CLIMATE-INSIGHT specialists can assess climate model capability. Working with us, we will evaluate the prediction abilities of climate models and the applicability of your information products to end-users;


• CLIMATE-INSIGHT can aim to establish the evidence base for how extreme events, climate variability and climate change, go on to generate direct impacts and socio-economic outcomes. This means we can effectively support decision and policy makers, both in the information producer and user communities.

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Alongside national and local government authorities, our programmes and speciality services cover:

• Interpretation of extreme events, climate variability and climate change. We analyse field observations, combining these with information from climate scenarios, to model current and future impacts on natural systems and human enterprises;


• Our detailed knowledge of Seamless Decision Making Systems has made our team a leader in developing the concepts behind the Espoo Conference and the INCLUDE consortium. We can organise training and capacity building courses, from single seminars through to extended courses covering Espoo, INCLUDE and Seamless Decision Making System. As well, we are able to design and manage projects based on these key concepts.


• Data assimilation services that effectively combine data from numerical models with weather / climate observations from the environment;


• Production of Scoping Studies and Briefing Reports that cover the need for climate information services in a given sector, region or country;


• Support for regional climate risk assessments, by downscaling general models;


• Enabling the re-structuring of current climate information services for national meteorological bodies and regional fora;


• Improving synergies within, and between, climate services organisations and partnerships;


• Contributions to the design of inter-disciplinary research programmes and climate services for international development aid programmes;


• We understand the problem of tracing the impacts of specific research findings in complex adaptive systems, and can apply a range of learning tools within an inclusive and contextual approach that gauges climate information impacts, while promoting institutional learning and innovation.

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