Multiple beneficiaries
This portal will aim to offer the following benefits to various target audiences:
A. Existing and aspiring climate researchers: access to information on ongoing research on climate change across the world; opportunities to network and collaborate with fellow researchers across the globe
B. Universities: metadata on the scope, scale, and focus of ongoing climate research within the university; comparative data from across other universities; opportunities to create networking events for their climate researchers; platform to advertise research positions related to climate change
C. Institutions that fund climate research: metadata on focus and direction of ongoing climate research; geographies and topics that may be getting disproportionate focus; identification of gaps; platform to advertise funding opportunities
D. Governments: Opportunities to collaborate with researchers in real time and inform them about specific policy needs that the research could assimilate; pick up ideas and potential solutions from ongoing research for pressing issues without having to wait for the research to be published
E. Businesses: Collaborate with academia on potential emerging areas of technological innovation for climate mitigation and adaptation in real time, helping each other come up with innovative and viable climate solutions