weADAPT

Summary

weADAPT is a collaborative platform for knowledge exchange on climate change adaptation. It allows practitioners, researchers, students, planners and decision-makers at all levels to discover high-quality information, share their work, and connect with one another. By reducing knowledge fragmentation, it aims to enhance awareness and access to adaptation resources. The platform includes a comprehensive repository of adaptation-related content contributed by the community, an interactive map showcasing climate adaptation case studies, and training modules on key adaptation topics.

Host organisation: weADAPT has been developed and is maintained by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).

Launch date: 2007

Update status: Ongoing

Funding: The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) through SEI.

Team: SEI Oxford

Main functions

• Learning opportunities through blog posts, articles and entries created by community members 
• Map of case studies 
• Hubs related to different adaptation themes 
• Information on upcoming events 
• Sharing climate adaptation work 
• Climate adaptation training modules 
• Forum discussions 
• Possibilities to connect with and follow other community members and interact via forum discussions 

Intended audiences:

Practitioners, researchers, students, planners and decision-makers at all levels.  

Why the platform was established:

To facilitate learning, knowledge exchange and collaboration to build a growing community of research, policy, and practice while reducing information fragmentation on climate adaptation.