The International Research Institute for Climate & Society uses climate science to benefit society. We are part of @Columbia’s @ColumbiaClimate
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Need information on #ElNino / #LaNina? 🌡️⛈️❄️🔥
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General info: iri.columbia.edu/our-experti…
Our climate forecasts with @NWSCPC : iri.columbia.edu/our-experti…
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Meet @columbiaclimate @climatesociety food security expert @as_grossi whose focus is to help farmers in Africa plan for their seasons and decision-makers better predict and plan for climate extremes. #IDWGS news.climate.columbia.edu/20…
ALT Amanda Grossi speaking at a workshop.
How can we continue to support and mentor women scientists? Our very own Dr. Sari Lucille Blakeley answers this and more in State of the Planet's latest series celebrating women in science 🎉:
news.climate.columbia.edu/20…
🗓️Join us next week for a very special webinar with the @WorldBank and @CGIARAfrica to learn how IRI is working with regional and local partners to catalyze climate-smart agriculture in Africa. Register here! 👇
🗓️ You're invited! Join us on 22 Feb for the @WorldBank's “What's Cooking?" Digital Agriculture series where AICCRA partners will explore how to progress from simply generating climate information to enabling farmers in #Africa to actively use that info.
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ALT Event card for webinar: From Generation to Use: Catalyzing Climate-Smart Agriculture through Capacity Development in Africa
Supporting farmers to become climate-resilient means also supporting the network of actors who surround them. ✏️#Education has an enormous role to play. Learn how IRI thru @CGIARAfrica is working with 70+ institutions across Africa to co-develop curricula to manage #climate risk
Through AICCRA, the co-development of Climate Risk Management in Agricultural Extension curricula is the first of its kind, bringing together 70+ institutions to build knowledge & skills for extension workers to help farmers better plan for climate risk.
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"This downscaled location-specific climate information, made possible through the ENACTS approach, represents a huge stride in climate information availability for the country," said Dr. Lucy Mtilatila, Director of @DccmsM of @MwNatresources.
The ENACTS initiative, now active in more than 20 primarily African countries, is one of IRI's flagship initiatives to increase the availability, access, and use of climate information for decision-making and anticipatory risk management.📖Learn more here:iri.columbia.edu/resources/e….
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In this Q&A, climate scientist @wxpizza of @columbiaclimate @climatesociety discusses his work with @RCClimate, why we need a new generation of climate science translators, and what humanitarian action might look like in a post 1.5C° world. news.climate.columbia.edu/20…
Ensuring climate information📈is embedded within agricultural extension systems👩🏽🌾🌾is critical for supporting farmers in an increasingly erratic #climate!▶️Watch how we're teaming up with partners like @meteosenegal & @AncarSenegal in Senegal 🇸🇳 to do just that! @columbiaclimate
AICCRA Senegal and @climatesociety launched an ambitious locally co-designed Climate Risk Management in Agricultural Extension (CRMAE) curriculum in Senegal to help agricultural networks make more effective use of climate information in #Senegal.
Watch: youtu.be/gyhul255_7w
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This is what #FourthPurpose looks like! It was so much fun hosting 20+ forecasters📈⛈️ from 10+ countries all over Africa 🌍at @climatesociety these past few weeks! They'll carry new capacities around best-available forecasting approaches home to share, but also great memories!😊
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We developed a 🆕 Climate Guidance Series w/input from @climatesociety + @metoffice to help humanitarians to interpret and use common types of #climate and weather #data in their analysis.
Read our first climate guidance note on precipitation forecasts: bit.ly/43TPhM1
Our @OsgoodDan spoke with @dsherfinski @thomsonreuters about how #climatechange is impacting insurance markets. ‘Effectively, we are making a "human choice to make a less-resilient future”.’ he said.
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Making moves in Malawi! 🇲🇼 Today, we are kicking off our @WMO CREWS project with @climatesociety & @DccmsM ! Together, we will make sure Malawi's #climate data 📈 is not only improved, but made freely accessible and useful to support decision-makers! 🧠💡#AdaptationInAction 💪🏾
Congratulations to Celeste Saulo (@SMN_Argentina), who will be the first female Sec-Gen of @WMO!
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For those who’ve asked about the potential impacts of El Niño - here’s a map that shows what it can do to rainfall patterns around the world. And for the latest El Niño forecasts: iri.columbia.edu/our-experti…
The positive impacts of this work will last for years and decades. Great to see the climate training for agricultural extension officers featured. Kudos to IRI staff and partners for the many months of effort they put in to make these trainings so successful!
We believe, with increased access to & *use of* innovations by @CGIAR & partners, #farmers can better anticipate climate events & make informed decisions to safeguard livelihoods & environment.
📚 Read more in our stories from May.
bit.ly/3ClimateSmartAfricaNe…
#TakeItToTheFarmer
ALT Image: A woman farmer standing in a field wearing a green coat and looking at a plant Text reads: Climate Smart Africa - Our stories from May
“We can’t sit around and wait for a critical threshold of sea level rise to occur, because waiting could mean we would be missing out on taking anticipatory action and preparedness measures.” - Our @wxpizza (Andrew Kruczkiewicz), via @ap. apnews.com/article/new-york-…
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AICCRA ensures that knowledge is disseminated and adopted for positive outcomes through training, which in 2022 benefited nearly 6,000 participants.” - IRI’s Alison Rose
Generating & sharing knowledge is an AICCRA priority - demonstrated through technical trainings, strong partnerships with African universities & a commitment to delivering open-access resources through our Learning Zone.
🔗 Read: bit.ly/AICCRA2022
#ClimateSmartAfrica
How will #ElNino likely impact rainfall patterns around the world? There’s a map for that.
More info here: iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/mapr…
