Use of weather and climate information essential for SDG implementation

David Griggs; Mark Stafford-Smith; David Warrilow; Roger Street; Carolina Vera; Michelle Scobie; Youba Sokona

doi:10.1038/s43017-020-00126-8

Use of weather and climate information essential for SDG implementation

Nat Rev Earth Environ. 2021;2(1):2-4. doi: 10.1038/s43017-020-00126-8. Epub 2020 Dec 2.

Authors

David Griggs^{1

2}, Mark Stafford-Smith³, David Warrilow⁴, Roger Street⁵, Carolina Vera⁶, Michelle Scobie⁷, Youba Sokona^{8

9}

Affiliations

¹ Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
² Institute of Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK.
³ CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, ACT Australia.
⁴ Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, UK.
⁵ Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
⁶ Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos, CIMA, CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁷ Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
⁸ South Centre, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁹ Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, University College London, London, UK.

Abstract

Owing to a lack of understanding, and data being unavailable, unusable or unsuitable, weather and climate information is currently underutilized in Sustainable Development Goal implementation. Improvements are essential in knowledge brokering, clarifying responsibilities, multi-institutional and multi-stakeholder governance arrangements and research on systemic risks and decisions.

Keywords: Climate sciences; Environmental social sciences; Scientific community; Sustainability.