Wednesday 25 October - Lunchtime
The recent sixth IPCC report highlighted the lack of studies on the impacts of climate change in the Global South. While, paradoxically, these countries have the weakest resilience capacity to adapt to these forthcoming changes. In this context, IRD and partners designed a web portal dedicated to climate change impact studies in the Global South. A climate services platform was implemented in 2023 to access a large dataset of bias-corrected climate models simulations (CORDEX, CMIP6), as well as a set of climate indicators relevant for impacts assessment (heavy rains, extreme heat) and impact models outputs (ISIMIP) in different sectors (water, vegetation, agriculture, and health). Besides data access functionality, the web portal will gradually integrate different training resources for the users and new datasets. This side-event will present the process of the co-construction of the Web site and will organise an interactive demonstration of the Web site, allowing everyone to visualize / download climate and impact projections in its region of interest.
Name of organizing project/institution: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
Co-organizers: Youssouph Sane - Agence Nationale de l'Aviation Civile et de la Météorologie (ANACIM), Senegal; Yves Tramblay and Benjamin Sultan - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France
Targeted audience: Early-mid career and established researchers
Attendance: Open to all delegates registered for the WCRP Open Science Conference
Logistics: Participants must bring their own laptops