Climate services are widely recognised as playing a central role in supporting climate risk management, adaptation planning, and societal preparedness across sectors and scales. Despite this growing recognition, the uptake and sustained use of climate services remain uneven and, in many contexts, limited. A range of constraints has been identified, including institutional barriers, mismatches between supply and demand, limited capacities, and challenges related to trust, relevance, and usability. Moreover, significant disparities persist across geographical regions, sectors, and user communities, raising questions about for whom climate services create value and under what conditions.

Beyond advances in climate science and modelling, there is increasing recognition that the values and benefits of climate services - economic, social, and environmental - are critical factors in promoting their use and justifying continued investment. In this context, co-creation and co-production processes are increasingly viewed as key mechanisms for enhancing the relevance, legitimacy, and uptake of climate services by aligning climate information with decision-making needs, institutional settings, and societal priorities.

This session invites contributions that critically examine the values and benefits generated by climate services and climate information, together with the co-creation and co- production processes through which such value is shaped, realised, and sustained. The session also welcomes contributions that analyse the climate services market, barriers to uptake, and the factors influencing demand and use across sectors and regions. Overall, the session aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on how climate services create value for decision making, policy development, and societal resilience, and on how this value can be assessed, enhanced, and maintained across different contexts.

We welcome contributions addressing, but not limited to:
• Economic, social, and environmental valuation and evaluation of climate services and climate information
• Methods and frameworks for assessing benefits, impacts, and outcomes of climate services
• Co-creation and co-production approaches that strengthen the value and support the uptake of climate services
• Institutional, governance, and power dynamics in co produced climate services
• Climate services markets, demand dynamics, and structural barriers to uptake
• Lessons learned from operational, experimental, and pilot climate services
• Monitoring and evaluation approaches implemented in operational climate services
• Case studies across different sectors such as water, agriculture, energy, transportation, coastal management, disaster risk reduction, and others