Turning Information into Knowledge and Action for Climate Change

The Climate Knowledge Brokers (CKB) Group, supported by a Coordination Hub at REEEP, operates as a community of practice for approximately 400 brokers across 60 countries. Between 2014 and 2017, the group focused on professionalizing the role of climate knowledge brokering through the 2015 Climate Knowledge Brokers Manifesto, peer-learning workshops, and the development of digital tools like Climate Tagger and Climate Search. The group emphasizes collaboration over competition to ensure decision-makers have access to tailored, high-quality climate information.

• The Climate Knowledge Brokers (CKB) Group has expanded into a global network of approximately 400 brokers from 60 countries, representing over 200 organizations including governments, universities, international organizations, and NGOs.
• The 2015 Climate Knowledge Brokers Manifesto defines the role of brokers as 'filters, interfaces and translators' who bridge the gap between knowledge producers and users to ensure decisions are based on reliable and relevant information.
• Between 2014 and 2017, CKB facilitated peer learning through 12 face-to-face events with over 450 participants and online webinars attended by more than 600 people.
• The group developed the Climate Tagger, a widely used toolkit that uses the expert-curated Climate Thesaurus to organize and tag climate-related content in five languages; as of November 2016, it had 341 API key holders and over 2,600 plugin downloads.
• CKB is developing a 'Knowledge Systems Analysis' methodology, inspired by value chain analysis, to identify bottlenecks in how climate knowledge travels between actors; this is currently being tested in Kenya and Senegal.
• The network has seen significant growth in membership from specific regions between 2014 and 2016, with a 144% increase in members from Africa and a 78% increase from Latin America and the Caribbean.

APA

Climate and Development Knowledge Network (n.d.). Turning Information into Knowledge and Action for Climate Change. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/CKB-Group_Three-year-celebration-2014_17.pdf

Chicago

Climate and Development Knowledge Network. Turning Information into Knowledge and Action for Climate Change. n.d. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/CKB-Group_Three-year-celebration-2014_17.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climateanddevelopmentknowledgenetworkndturning, author = {{Climate and Development Knowledge Network}}, title = {{Turning Information into Knowledge and Action for Climate Change}}, institution = {Climate and Development Knowledge Network}, url = {https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/CKB-Group_Three-year-celebration-2014_17.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }