Climate change affects every country in the world, but how and to what extent countries are affected differs greatly. Persistent data gaps, resource and capacity constraints, lack of appropriate legal and regulatory frameworks, and ineffective co-ordination between and across relevant stakeholders are limiting the use of data for climate action.
To help inform national as well as international action to tackle climate change, PARIS21 has developed the Mobilising Climate Change Data Ecosystems Framework (CCDE). Climate Change Data Ecosystems are communities of interacting state and non-state data actors, the legal and policy environment in which they operate, and the technologies to create, transform and use climate change-related data and statistics.
The framework is targeted at national or international actors working on climate change data and who wish to strategically strengthen data for climate action. It guides the data community through a four-step process to identify data gaps, prioritise crucial data and capacities for climate action, and mobilise resources and actors to facilitate evidence-based decision making. The framework also contains a set of tools to implement the four steps.
