The IAI regional assessment

This document, prepared by the IAI Directorate, presents preliminary findings from a Regional Assessment of IAI Parties' priorities regarding global change policy. The assessment utilized surveys, listening sessions, and the analysis of 86 policy documents to map the domestic and international global change policy landscape, identifying current and emerging priorities as well as barriers to integrating scientific information into decision-making.

• Climate Action is the highest current policy priority for IAI Parties, with a high level of agreement across all information sources. This priority is significantly more important than the third-ranked priority, Water Security.
• Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and Water Security are also top regional policy priorities, though agreement on the importance of biodiversity is lower than for climate action. Specific sub-regional priorities emerged: Water Security is a high priority for countries in the Arid Andes (Chile, Bolivia, and Peru), while Clean air, water, and soils is a priority for North America (US and Canada).
• Emerging policy priorities emphasize the social impacts of Global Environmental Change. Focal points identified Human Health and Wellbeing as the most critical emerging priority, followed by Energy Security, while researchers identified Poverty and inequality as the most important.
• The primary barriers to using scientific information in decision-making are a lack of inter-sectoral collaboration, a lack of information tailored for non-technical audiences, and competing governmental priorities. Additional barriers cited by researchers include a lack of political mandates and local/regional evidence, while focal points noted limited data analysis capacity and a lack of official databases.
• Opportunities to improve the use of scientific information include international funding and cooperation, multilateral agreements, and transboundary dialogue spaces for focal points, while researchers highlighted the growing body of national and international evidence.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (2023). The IAI regional assessment. https://archive.iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/IAI-CoP-31-13-d-i-en.pdf

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. The IAI regional assessment. 2023. https://archive.iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/IAI-CoP-31-13-d-i-en.pdf.

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearch2023iai, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{The IAI regional assessment}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, year = {2023}, month = may, url = {https://archive.iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/IAI-CoP-31-13-d-i-en.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }