Argentina expanding Climate Services Knowledge Frontiers: capacity building for local stakeholders.
- 1Rovira i Virgili, Centre of Climate Change, Geografía, Vila-Seca, Spain (caterina.cimolai@urv.cat)
- 2Institute of Research in Sustainability, Climate Change, and Energy Transition (IU-RESCAT), Rovira i Virgili University (URV), Tarragona, Spain.
- 3Argentine Network of Professionals for Foreign Policy (REDAPPE).
The construction of local capacities related to climate change adaptation, such as climate indicators, is crucial to generate effective strategies against climate hazards. Along these lines, a "Workshop on Co-creation of Climate Indicators" has been conducted in the municipality of Posadas (Misiones, Argentina), adapting the co-creation methodology developed by Font et al. (2021). The purpose was to develop local capacity building, including the provision to participants with WMO competencies for delivering Climate Services. To achieve this, participants acquired skills and abilities that help them think, discuss, define, and compute climate indices to assist decision-making in climate-dependent sectors.
The workshop was carried out in collaboration with a local partner, REDAPPE, enabling a comprehensive diagnosis of the territory and all stakeholders involved. Local work and outreach facilitated the participation of stakeholders from the private, public, and civil society sectors. Furthermore, both the provincial government (Misiones Province) and the local government (Posadas municipality) engaged with the process, actively participating and providing support.
During the workshop, co-created indicators were generated in different working groups. Additionally, each participant conducted individual work where they explained why they consider the development of such capacities important and how they would apply them in their work. Finally, networks of collaboration and work have been established among participants, facilitating the exchange of knowledge and information among them during and after the workshop. We understand this as a fundamental strength for the construction of effective and coordinated actions in the territory; therefore, part of the process is to ensure the support of the technical team with the participants and their work, as well as the promotion and facilitation of tools for the development of new projects.
How to cite: Cimolai, C., Boqué-Ciurana, A., Olano Pozo, J., Cherini, O., and Aguilar, E.: Argentina expanding Climate Services Knowledge Frontiers: capacity building for local stakeholders., EMS Annual Meeting 2024, Barcelona, Spain, 1–6 Sep 2024, EMS2024-742, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2024-742, 2024.
