Climate tool users' perceptions, needs and access constraints

The research identifies a lack of awareness regarding existing climate tools and a strong preference for user-friendly, native-language information to support climate risk mitigation and adaptation.

• A survey of 343 participants across Estonia, Germany, Poland, Sweden, and Ukraine reveals that users possess varying skills and preferences regarding language, information depth, and data visualisation.
• Users generally have low awareness of available climate information tools and strongly prefer access to information in their native languages, with a particular need to bridge language gaps in Eastern Europe.
• To prevent non-experts from being deterred, climate tools must be user-friendly and flexible, and should be co-developed to better link real-time weather events with long-term climatic trends.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2025). Climate tool users' perceptions, needs and access constraints. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-tool-users-perceptions-needs-and-access-constraints/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Climate tool users' perceptions, needs and access constraints. 2025. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-tool-users-perceptions-needs-and-access-constraints/.

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2025climate, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Climate tool users' perceptions, needs and access constraints}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2025}, month = jan, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-tool-users-perceptions-needs-and-access-constraints/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }