Our Approach to Climate Resilience

Climate resilience: it’s the ability for communities to recover from the impacts of climate events. It’s the difference between weather being manageable…or a catastrophe. But for many parts of the world, where livelihoods depend so much on the climate, critical weather and climate information is unavailable or unusable.

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society and its partners are working in some of the most impoverished areas of the world to increase food security, decrease vulnerability to disasters and predict outbreaks of diseases such as malaria. We learn from the past, by bringing historical climate data online, we monitor present conditions, and look to the future, through forecasts and models. We’re giving experts the access and training they need to be able to use this information and develop different climate services.