Climate Services - what do we do

Published 11.02.2016

At CICERO we provide and perform research on climate services bridging science, communication, and decision making to enable the transition to a resilient low-carbon future both in Norway and on the international level.

For us climate services are tools and information that help people to make better decisions for a sustainable future, whether you are a farmer in Tanzania needing information on when to expect rain or a local politician in Norway wanting to keep houses safe from flooding. We support those decisions on a global, national and local level.

Being an interdisciplinary institute, we approach climate services on different levels:

• Research and development on climate services, including research proposal development and consortia participation, e.g., H2020, JPI, ERA-NET, GFCS)
• Data provision and consulting to organizations offering and developing climate services
• Advisory services and communication

CICERO follows the principle of designing climate services that meet decision makers’ needs, which requires sustained dialogue between producers and translators of climate information and a range of other stakeholders in order to understand and address diverse capacities, needs, opportunities and constraints to effective climate service delivery and application.

• Climate data and information, including products like downscaled scenarios and economic analysis
• Counselling on best practices in climate finance, like second opinions on green bonds
• Process research for actionable and effective climate services and solutions
• Communication and process facilitation, including co-production and co-design with stakeholders and end-users

Over the past 10 years, CICERO has pioneered interdisciplinary research on process understanding for actionable climate information and effective climate communication in Norway and internationally.