Article type
Abstract
Background
Tackling climate change to protect people and planet is one of the great challenges of the 21st century and key to making progress toward many of the Sustainable Development Goals. Understanding what climate mitigation and adaptation solutions work under what conditions and why is critical to accelerate the global response. Despite this urgency, the required evidence base is only slowly emerging. While science assessment bodies like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have not prioritized ex post evaluations and syntheses thereof on what works, evidence curators like the Campbell Collaboration and Cochrane have only recently started to build a work program in the field. This session will continue discussions from the What Works Climate Solutions Summit in Berlin:
Objectives
•Accelerate policy learning on climate solutions by catalyzing a community effort for synthesizing evidence on what climate solutions work
•Discuss innovations in evidence synthesis and their potential for the climate field to leapfrog methodological development
•Identify how new partnerships across producers, curators, funders, and users of evidence can help to leverage
Description and activities/interaction plans
This Special Session is organized by the Campbell Climate Solutions Coordinating Group and its partners in symposium style around a set of input presentations with ample time for an interactive 45-min panel discussion moderated by Hugh Waddington (LSHTM) in the second half:
•The evidence base on climate solutions: toward living evidence gap maps (Marie Gaarder, 3ie; Max Callaghan, MCC)
•Adapting evidence syntheses methodologies to climate research (Jan Minx, MCC)
•Leapfrogging development: a community of practice for living systematic reviews and partnerships (Ruth Steward, Future Evidence Foundation)
•Building capacity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) (Ashrita Saran, Global Development Network)
For broadening the discussion across different communities, the subsequent panel discussion will invite Karla Soares-Weise/Denise Thomson (Cochrane), Vivian Welch (Campbell), and Thomas Piggott (McMaster).
Target audience
Aligned with the Summit’s special attention to the Sustainable Development Agenda, this special session targets organizations and individuals working in different fields on climate change and sustainable development.
Level of knowledge
Basic
Co-facilitators:
•Hugh Sharma Waddington
•Jan Minx
Tackling climate change to protect people and planet is one of the great challenges of the 21st century and key to making progress toward many of the Sustainable Development Goals. Understanding what climate mitigation and adaptation solutions work under what conditions and why is critical to accelerate the global response. Despite this urgency, the required evidence base is only slowly emerging. While science assessment bodies like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have not prioritized ex post evaluations and syntheses thereof on what works, evidence curators like the Campbell Collaboration and Cochrane have only recently started to build a work program in the field. This session will continue discussions from the What Works Climate Solutions Summit in Berlin:
Objectives
•Accelerate policy learning on climate solutions by catalyzing a community effort for synthesizing evidence on what climate solutions work
•Discuss innovations in evidence synthesis and their potential for the climate field to leapfrog methodological development
•Identify how new partnerships across producers, curators, funders, and users of evidence can help to leverage
Description and activities/interaction plans
This Special Session is organized by the Campbell Climate Solutions Coordinating Group and its partners in symposium style around a set of input presentations with ample time for an interactive 45-min panel discussion moderated by Hugh Waddington (LSHTM) in the second half:
•The evidence base on climate solutions: toward living evidence gap maps (Marie Gaarder, 3ie; Max Callaghan, MCC)
•Adapting evidence syntheses methodologies to climate research (Jan Minx, MCC)
•Leapfrogging development: a community of practice for living systematic reviews and partnerships (Ruth Steward, Future Evidence Foundation)
•Building capacity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) (Ashrita Saran, Global Development Network)
For broadening the discussion across different communities, the subsequent panel discussion will invite Karla Soares-Weise/Denise Thomson (Cochrane), Vivian Welch (Campbell), and Thomas Piggott (McMaster).
Target audience
Aligned with the Summit’s special attention to the Sustainable Development Agenda, this special session targets organizations and individuals working in different fields on climate change and sustainable development.
Level of knowledge
Basic
Co-facilitators:
•Hugh Sharma Waddington
•Jan Minx