Climate Action Guided by Data
Inform climate action with data and build resilience across communities.
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Climate change is the defining policy challenge of the 21st century. To tackle the climate crisis, we must develop innovative, sustainable solutions that meet ambitious emissions reductions targets while making vulnerable communities more resilient.
As domestic and international policy align to combat climate change and the challenges it creates, rigorous research and advanced analytics are key to helping agencies and foundations mobilize resources for climate action. Drawing on our expertise in health, human services, data science and analytics, and international research, including energy, agriculture, and water, we support the design of solutions that help our clients address the multi-sectoral challenges that climate change poses.
Our climate change experts provide government agencies and foundations with:
- Evaluation and measurement to assess effectiveness of climate change policy to understand the multi-sectoral impacts of climate policy interventions
- A full-service learning partner across the strategy lifecycle, working with our clients to develop strategy, design interventions and build capacity, generate evidence, and disseminate and apply lessons
- Platforms, dashboards, and visualization tools that collect and use high-frequency, crowd-sourced climate change data with enhanced spatial and temporal resolutions to enable predictive modeling and real-time analysis
- Analytical tools and models to evaluate sustainability scenarios, track resilience, and prioritize interventions
- Technical assistance to build capacity to design and implement monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) activities that drive climate action
Our Climate Action Focus Areas
We help clients understand climate change impacts and explore solutions across a range of sectors, including agriculture, energy, water, sanitation and hygiene, education and workforce, livelihoods and economic stability, and health and nutrition.
Learn more about how we can partner to maximize the impact of climate solutions with evidence.
The agriculture sector is both a central contributor to climate emissions globally and an essential source of rural livelihoods and economic stability that are threatened by climate change. We apply extensive knowledge of agricultural systems challenges to help our clients and partners understand the effects of interventions designed to improve their performance and sustainability internationally. Through our agriculture evaluations, we help clients understand the impacts of improved and sustainable farming practices, improved water management, post-harvest technologies, and how agricultural productivity impacts smallholder farmers.
Access to modern energy services is necessary to enhance economic opportunity and economic stability, improve living standards, and increase national and regional resilience to climate change. We provide data collection and data analytics solutions that help our clients understand energy usage, inform policymaking, and analyze the efficacy of green energy investments. We are currently helping the Millennium Change Corporation understand how its investments could lead to more reliable and higher quality electricity in Benin, Ghana, and Liberia, in addition to previous work in Tanzania.
Historically marginalized communities that often bear the least responsibility for causing climate change are disproportionately exposed to climate-related natural disasters. Just as exposure to these extreme weather events is unequal, so too is susceptibility to their health effects. Using advanced analytics and dynamic visualizations, we surface the complex relationships between exposure, sensitivity, and capacity, and identify who is most vulnerable to climate-related health issues. In so doing, we help clients understand the conditions that should trigger emergency warnings to protect vulnerable residents and help communities and health systems bolster their climate resilience.
Featured Project
ClimaWATCH: An Interactive Tool to Boost Climate Adaptation and Resilience
As part of a new Climate Change and Health Analytics initiative, we have developed a tool for exploring the impact of heat waves on health and equity at the national, state, and local levels. Watch this four-minute video to learn more.
Learn MoreEvidence and Insights
Blog Post
Building More Resilient and Equitable Communities in the Face of Environmental and Climate Injustice
This blog post shares considerations for human services professionals as they navigate and find solutions for climate and environmental injustices.
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Progress is best made together.
Partner with us at the intersection of data science, social science, and technology to progress from inquiry to insight to impact. Our evidence-informed solutions empower you to see clearly and act quickly.
