DPGs FOR CLIMATE ACTION
We call for cost-effective and scalable DPGs to help diverse groups of stakeholders monitor, mitigate, and adapt to climate change and its impacts.
This call includes DPGs that operationalise the following approaches:
- Reuse: Adopting DPGs that are commonly used in other sectors for climate action.
- Multi-purpose: DPGs relevant for multiple purposes across climate change monitoring, mitigation, and adaptation efforts, including earth observation tools.
- Configurability: DPGs part of climate-stack approaches, where different interoperable components can be used and configured to address multiple climate use cases.
- Transparency: Open data and content DPGs that enhance and protect information integrity and strengthen science-based climate action, including as part of public interest AI.
- Collaboration: DPGs that can serve as platforms for collaborative multi-stakeholder climate action, for instance to pool demand or financing, facilitate integrations or build on top of existing open solutions, or bring stakeholders together to accelerate impact.
PRIMARY GOALS
- Identify and highlight existing and potential DPGs that operationalise cost-effective and scalable approaches to climate action, including relevant research and case studies that explore and validate the benefits of implementing these DPGs.
- Identify gaps and grow the pipeline of future DPGs that operationalise these approaches.
WHY THIS
Climate change poses an existential threat to global ecosystems, economies, and communities, necessitating the deployment of innovative solutions that can scale rapidly and effectively. Furthermore, while climate change impacts every region differently, the fundamental tools required to address these challenges are often the same, negating the need to reinvent for each unique situation.
WHY NOW
As climate experts continue to present increasingly alarming predictions and analyses, the need to move swiftly to implement effective mitigation and adaptation measures is more critical than ever before. At the same time, major geopolitical shifts and changing political priorities are diverting attention and investment away from climate initiatives. This shift necessitates innovative approaches that are not locked into specific companies and countries, that can accomplish more with less, and that can ensure that meaningful climate action accelerates despite resourcing and political priority challenges.
HOW TO SUPPORT
- Strengthen the evidence base for the approaches listed in the call, or for complimentary additional cost-effective and scalable approaches, for instance by sharing and initiating relevant research and case studies on DPG-implementations.
- Share existing DPGs and other open-source solutions that operationalise these approaches.
- Fund and/or develop new DPGs that operationalise these approaches.