Coutinho Martins Bruno Soares, M orcid.org/0000-0003-3127-4461 and Buontempo, C (Cover date: July/August 2019) Challenges to the sustainability of climate services in Europe. WIREs Climate Change, 10 (4). e587. ISSN 1757-7780
Abstract
Climate services have emerged as a research and operational field in recent years. This development has been underpinned and supported by significant research, funding and agenda‐setting efforts such as the Global Framework for Climate Services internationally and the Roadmap for Climate Services and the Copernicus Climate Change Service in Europe. The fast pace at which this field is developing raises a number of key challenges that need to be critically examined and addressed to ensure the future development and sustainability of climate services in Europe. This opinion piece highlights a number of challenges currently threatening the viability of climate services including the complexity of the concept of climate services; the complex landscape of complementary research and development areas relevant to climate services; existing rights to freely access and use climate services; current limitations to funding structures and mechanisms and how that impacts on the development of climate services; the emphasis on co‐production as a precondition to climate services development; and the limited role of the social sciences in the research and operational field of climate services. Effectively addressing these challenges will require a commitment from the scientific and practitioner communities to engage in critical and reflective debates around the future conceptualization and operationalization of climate services in Europe. This paper aims to provide critical input to stimulate a necessary and overdue debate around the sustainability and future of climate services in Europe.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Authors. WIREs Climate Change published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
Keywords: | challenges for climate services in Europe; concept of climate services; co-production; governing rights; social sciences |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 29 Apr 2019 09:20 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 21:48 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/wcc.587 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:145402 |
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