The four demonstrator cities were intentionally chosen to represent urban areas with varying sizes, geographies, climate, and socio-economic and cultural conditions. Accordingly, each city faces and is working to address different climate-related challenges. By working closely with stakeholders in Bergen, Barcelona, Paris and Prague, we are bringing together findings from our tailored work in each of these different contexts to understand what we can learn about co-producing actionable climate knowledge in urban areas more broadly.
To support a synthesis of lessons learned in a new handbook for designing urban climate services, in each I4C demonstrator city we are seeking to:
- combine urban-scale climate and non-climate observational data, models and prediction systems to improve predictions of the impacts of climate and extreme weather episodes; and
- support climate adaptation and resilience policy and decision making through tailoring these new data sources to produce climate information that is updated, clearer and stakeholder (and context) specific.