NOAA has just released a Request for Information (RFI) on Equitable Climate Service Delivery that seeks feedback on how NOAA can increase capacity and access to climate services for climate preparedness, resilience, and adaptation planning in historically underserved communities-including Tribal and Indigenous communities–as well as how the agency can better include Indigenous and local knowledge in our climate services.
Building on NOAA’s Climate Equity Roundtables and Pilots, and its efforts to build a Climate Ready Nation, data gathered from the RFI will be used to develop an Action Plan designed to:
1. Make NOAA’s climate services more accessible, understandable, usable, inclusive of the social and economic impacts of climate change, and capable of addressing complex hazards, and
2. Build capacity for and support users of all disciplines and backgrounds, particularly historically underserved communities and Tribal communities, by expanding science literacy and successfully applying climate services to science-based decisions about climate risk and resilience.
You can read more about the RFI here. We also encourage you to attend one of the NOAA regional and community-specific listening sessions. Click here to register for one.
There are listening sessions scheduled in August, including this one for Tribal and Indigenous Communities https://www.eventbrite.com/e/equitable-climate-services-listening-session-tribal-indigenous-tickets-681567054407?aff=odcleoeventsincollection
And this one for the Western region https://www.eventbrite.com/e/equitable-climate-services-listening-session-west-tickets-681128602987?aff=odcleoeventsincollection
If you have any questions, please reach out to Ella Clarke at climate.input@noaa.gov.