Climate Literacy

The Climate Literacy platform has been created to spread knowledge on climate adaptation in the Adriatic region.
Photo by Filip Živaljić on Unsplash
Photo by Filip Živaljić on Unsplash

Summary

This Climate Literacy platform, created by the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), promotes climate knowledge and competencies for climate adaptation, with a specific focus on climate literacy in the Adriatic region. The platform provides several tools for understanding the impacts of human-induced climate change on societies, such as visual and multimedia storytelling and data visualization. 

Host organisation: The CMCC Foundation (Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change)

Launch date: June 2023

Update status: Project ended

Funding: The platform was financed by the Interreg Italy-Croatia Cooperation Programme within the AdriaClim project and was implemented with the contribution of Italian and Croatian partner institutions who provided useful materials and information on their activities regarding climate adaptation and research in the cross-border area of the programme.

Team: CMCC and AdriaClim consortium partners as contributors

Main functions:

  • Communicate climate science and adaptation solutions through storytelling 
  • Provide scientific information to relevant stakeholder groups with effective data visualization
  • Raise awareness on the need for science-based, participatory adaption to climate change
  • Foster interdisciplinary dialogue to connect climate science and governance 

Intended audiences:

The general public and interested stakeholders

Why the platform was created

The platform was created to promote climate literacy and to narrate science-based adaptation experiences in the Adriatic region.

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