Refocusing the Climate Services Lens

The authors argue for a shift in climate services from a narrow focus on products to a process-centric approach based on transdisciplinary collaboration. To facilitate this, they introduce the 'Tandem' framework, which provides structured elements and guiding questions to support the co-exploration and co-production of integrated climate information. The framework aims to improve knowledge integration across the science-society interface, identify decision-relevant needs, and build the institutional and human capacities necessary for climate-resilient decision-making.

• The authors advocate for a paradigm shift in climate services, moving from a supply-driven emphasis on products toward a process-centric approach based on transdisciplinary collaboration. This shift is intended to generate long-term benefits such as enhanced institutional and human capacity and the establishment of relationships necessary for science-informed decision-making.
• The 'Tandem' framework is designed to facilitate science-informed policy and policy-informed science by achieving three primary goals: improving the design of transdisciplinary knowledge integration, co-exploring decision-relevant needs for integrated climate and non-climate information, and increasing the capacities and networks required to translate information into climate-resilient action.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2020). Refocusing the Climate Services Lens. https://www.sei.org/publications/refocusing-the-climate-services-lens/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Refocusing the Climate Services Lens. 2020. https://www.sei.org/publications/refocusing-the-climate-services-lens/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2020refocusing, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Refocusing the Climate Services Lens}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2020}, month = sep, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/refocusing-the-climate-services-lens/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }