Global Data to Build Climate Resilience and Drive Action

An Introduction to the Partnership for Resilience and

Preparedness (PREP) and Climate Watch

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Building climate resilience through data

Christina Chan, Director, Climate Resilience Practice, WRI

The Challenges

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1. Access to useful, timely, credible data

2. Confusing, fragmented landscape of platforms, tools, methods

3. Climate datasets are not user-friendly

4. Data disparity between Global North and South

5. Lack of feedback mechanisms between data providers and users

6. Need better cross-sectoral knowledge sharing on climate preparedness

Origins of PREP

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PREP began as The President’s Climate Data Initiative: Empowering America’s Communities to Prepare for the Effects of Climate Change. As a U.S. climate data initiative, it would leverage vast, underutilized datasets.

A Public-Private Partnership

PREP Coordination

Government Partners

NGO Partners Private Sector Partners

Building Resilience Through Data

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PREP — both through the Partnership and

its PREPdata platform — helps visualize

and customize data, improves access to

datasets, and supports the climate

resilience ecosystem.

Features:

(www.prepdata.org)

Explore | Find, layer and visualize datasets

Customized Dashboards | Monitor indicators of interest

Stories | Share insights and use case studies with global community

What is PREPdata?

PREPdata Feature – Data exploration

(www.prepdata.org)

• Search for climate-relevant data on

the Explorer or upload your own data.

• Query and combine with data from other

sources, and visualize them in the same

platform.

• See what data similar communities are using to

build resilience around the world.

• Request data

PREPdata Feature: Customizable Dashboards

PREPdata Features: Creating Graphs

Landslides Triggered by Tropical Cyclones

What makes PREPdata unique?

Visualized dataset of roads worldwide. Photo Credit: PREPdata

• A focus on visualizing data for climate resilience

• A map-based platform that is user-friendly and customizable to different contexts and skill levels

• Active curation of data sets

• Commitment to global coverage

• A user-needs based strategy for platform development and data content

• Diverse group of partners

PREP – going forward:

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• PREPdata launch in January 2018

• Ongoing expansion of data coverage and content

• Application in two Indian states (Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh) to use PREPdata to support implementation of their State Action Plans on Climate Change.

• Planning application of PREPdata in Africa

• Exploring use of PREPdata to support adaptation planning in the private sector

• Additional pilot applications of PREPdata – with PREP support. Please share your ideas

PREPdata - Launching January 2018.

For additional information –• See www.prepdata.org • Contact info@prepdata.org

Climate Watch:Data for Climate Action

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Contact Us

CLIMATEWATCH

Climatewatchdata.org

climatewatch@wri.org

Rob Bradley

robertbradley@ndcpartnership.org

Johannes Friedrich

Johannes.Friedrich@wri.org

PREP & PREPdata

Prepdata.org

info@prepdata.org

Christina Chan

Christina.Chan@wri.org