An international network for climate change adaptation, research and education
The Knowledge for Climate Network brings together multi-disciplinary expertise from Latin America, South Asia and Switzerland to advance the production and dissemination of knowledge on climate change adaptation. Our network of more than 10 academic institutions adopts a joint knowledge production approach to engage in innovative and impact-full research and education. Our diverse disciplinary, cultural and institutional backgrounds provide unique perspectives to produce actionable and solution-oriented knowledge in climate change adaptation.
News
New publication “Glacier Lake 513, Peru: Lessons for early warning service development”
In a new publication at the World Meteorological Bulletin, Christian Huggel, Christine Just, and colleagues reviewed the lessons learned from the design, implementation and operation of an early warning system (EWS) for glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) at Lake 513, one of our study sites, in...
Latin American Regional Workshop, 10-12 December 2019
photo: María Elena Báez In December 2019 we had our first Latin American Regional Workshop in Bogota, Colombia. Organized by Universidad Nacional de Colombia and University of Zurich, the workshop brought together our network partners from Colombia, El Salvador and Peru to discuss their case...
New publication “Joint knowledge production in climate change adaptation networks”
A new publication by members of Knowledge for Climate assessed how joint knowledge production (JKP) supports the development of solution-oriented knowledge in climate change adaptation networks. In the study published in Current Opinion in Environmental sustainability, Veruska Muccione and other...
Science Lunch at ZHdK
Christian Huggel, Veruska Muccione and Noemi Chow present the network knowledge for climate at the Science Lunch at the Zurich University of Art. In this format the students of the discipline Knowledge Visualization have the opportunity to cooperate with the partner institutions. The overall aim...
Kick-off workshop, 6-8 February 2019
Coordinated by the University of Zurich, knowledgeforclimate.net includes four academic institutions in Switzerland, and universities in Latin America (Peru, Colombia, El Salvador) and South Asia (India and Nepal).These institutions form the core consortium, committed to achieve the objectives....
Presentation at University of Zurich
Knowledge for Climate was presented at the SUDAC Assembly meeting held in Bern on 23 November 2018. SUDAC is the swissuniversities development and cooperation network and the main funding body of Knowledge for Climate At this meeting, all the projects funded under SUDAC were presented and...
Supported By
Knowledge for Climate is supported by the swissuniversities Development and Cooperation Network (SUDAC) ‘Consortia for Education and Research (COFER)’ programme, which promotes innovative and improved collaboration between different types of Swiss institutions of higher education and their partners from the Global South around themes related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the U.N. Agenda 2030.