{"title":"Climate change perceptions and adaptation responses among smallholder farmers across three locations in Megech Watershed, Ethiopia","authors":"Achenafi Teklay , Asrat Ayalew , Amanuel Abate , Masresha Ashenafi , Ashenafi Tadesse Marye , Assefa Tilahun , Haimanote K. Bayabil , Alemayehu Kassa , Hailu Birara , Kassaye Gurebiyaw , Kibruyesfa Sisay","doi":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100566","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100566","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change significantly affects smallholder farmers in Ethiopia who rely on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihoods. Farmers’ perceptions of climate change can modify their adaptation response decisions. However, there is limited knowledge about the key constraints that hinder the adoption of climate change measures in the Megech watershed. This research aimed to assess the smallholder farmers’ perception regarding climate change and the factors influencing their decision to adopt adaptation measures. This research employed a multi-stage sampling procedure to select a sample of 385 smallholder farmer households. Structured and semi-structured questionnaires were designed to conduct a household survey and focus group discussion for data purposes. Furthermore, this study covered a comparison between the farmers’ perspectives on climate change and the observed climate trends. The data analysis was done by descriptive statistics and logistic regression equation. Results showed that the primary sources for most farmers to get information about climate change were extension workers, radio broadcasts, and religious institutions. The majority of farmers believed that climate change was attributed to deforestation, population growth, and industrialization. Almost all farmers were cognizant of the temperature rise, aligning with the observed trend. However, the perception of the farmers on declining rainfall aligns only with recent rainfall trends. Farmers in the downstream had more experience in adopting climate change resilience strategies than farmers in the mid and upstream. On average, 87% of the farmers applied adaptation measures, including intensive inputs (fertilizers), planting date changes, and improved varieties. The farmers’ adoption of adaptation strategies was hampered by challenges such as limited access to credit and high costs of agricultural inputs. The regression analysis revealed that age, education, extension and credit access, and livestock size significantly affected the decision to adopt adaptation measures. These findings may support policymakers in formulating location-based adaptation measures to enhance resilience to climate change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51332,"journal":{"name":"Climate Services","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 100566"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143815123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Climate ServicesPub Date : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100570
Jean C.H. Miguel , Renzo R. Taddei , Marley C.L. Moscati , Caio A.S. Coelho , Iracema F.A. Cavalcanti , Luiz F. Rezende , Celso von Randow
{"title":"Co-production in climate services for the electricity sector in Brazil – Insights from the CLIMAX project","authors":"Jean C.H. Miguel , Renzo R. Taddei , Marley C.L. Moscati , Caio A.S. Coelho , Iracema F.A. Cavalcanti , Luiz F. Rezende , Celso von Randow","doi":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100570","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100570","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research paper presents the findings and lessons from the international CLIMAX project—Climate Services Through Knowledge Co-production: A Euro-South American Initiative for Strengthening Societal Adaptation Response to Extreme Events. The project, engaging with the Brazilian National Electric System Operator (ONS), explores co-production as a method to implement climate services in the context of Brazil, particularly within the country’s hydroelectric power sector. Through interactive research and transdisciplinary collaboration, the CLIMAX project evaluates both the implementation of climate services and the concept of utility in knowledge co-production. The research identifies inherent diversity and “utility paradoxes” within the co-production process. These paradoxes involve the perceived relevance of climate information versus its integration into systems, and its instrumental use versus its justification for decisions. The study highlights the significance of stakeholder engagement, close and meaningful communication, and adaptability to context-specific needs. By sharing experiences from a five-year interactive research initiative, it offers insights into improving practices for future co-production endeavors. This entails recognizing varied research contexts, managing co-design processes with an awareness of time and resources, and encouraging flexibility and personal transformation within co-design.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51332,"journal":{"name":"Climate Services","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 100570"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143881826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatio-temporal dynamics of urban heat island using Google Earth Engine: Assessment and prediction—A case study of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal","authors":"Bishal Khatri, Bipin Kharel, Pragati Dhakal, Samrat Acharya, Ujjwol Thapa","doi":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100560","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100560","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines UHI dynamics and impacts in the rapidly urbanizing Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, using remote sensing and predictive modeling. The primary goals are to evaluate UHI trends and explore how urbanization influences temperature and climate change. To achieve these objectives, the research investigates the relationship between spectral characteristics, Land Use Land Cover (LULC), and UHI, utilizing high-resolution data from MODIS and Landsat satellites to analyze land surface temperature (LST) and land use changes over recent decades. The study employs Cellular Automata-Markov (CA-Markov) modeling to predict future UHI dynamics, taking into account climatic variability, land use changes, and population growth. Findings reveal significant increases in LST and UHI intensity due to the expansion of impermeable surfaces and loss of vegetative cover. Predictions for 2030 indicate higher LSTs, with winter temperatures ranging from 9.34 °C to 30.12 °C and summer temperatures from 19.74 °C to 42.32 °C, showing an increase compared to 2020. Additionally, the UHI effect is predicted to intensify due to expanding built-up areas, with greater seasonal variation observed in summer. The results suggest that without effective mitigation, UHI will continue to worsen, exacerbating climate-related issues. Insights into the relationship between spectral parameters, LULC, and UHI can guide strategies to mitigate UHI effects, promote sustainable urban growth, and improve urban resilience. Integrating remote sensing technologies with predictive modeling is crucial for addressing urbanization and climate change challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51332,"journal":{"name":"Climate Services","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 100560"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143759743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Climate ServicesPub Date : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100563
Murray Scown , Haomiao Du , Guy Jackson , Salvatore Paolo De Rosa , Emily Boyd
{"title":"Towards CS4L&D: Advancing climate services for loss and damage","authors":"Murray Scown , Haomiao Du , Guy Jackson , Salvatore Paolo De Rosa , Emily Boyd","doi":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100563","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100563","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Losses and damages from climate change are not just a future risk but already a present reality, and “Loss and Damage” (L&D) as a policy domain has been formalised under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), alongside mitigation and adaptation. While climate services currently provide strong support for adaptation and disaster recovery, here we propose that an expanded set of climate services for L&D (CS4L&D) should be developed to help address climate justice implications of realised losses and damages. CS4L&D could pragmatically connect research on climate hazards and lived experiences of impacts with global political negotiations on L&D and transformative climate action and justice. Existing disaster databases and extreme event attribution services could be enhanced with knowledge relevant for L&D, including information on exposure, vulnerability, adaptive capacity, financial support, and governance. Existing disaster forensics tools could be enriched with knowledge on L&D in the UNFCCC context, including the political and legal implications of evidence these tools provide. A broadening from risk management to climate justice also awakens new possibilities for climate services. An expansion of climate services for L&D would contribute to climate justice by substantiating the L&D mechanism under Article 8 of the Paris Agreement and the claims for compensating L&D in climate litigation and activism. Novel users (and co-producers) of climate services for L&D might be legal professionals, journalists, affected communities, and activists, in addition to the traditional users such as planners, consultants, and decision-makers. We encourage the L&D and climate services communities to begin to co-develop with stakeholders such climate services for L&D.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51332,"journal":{"name":"Climate Services","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 100563"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143808252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Climate ServicesPub Date : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100564
Nazan An , Zekican Demiralay , Meltem Ucal , M. Levent Kurnaz
{"title":"The nexus between migration and environmental degradation based on fundamental climate variables and extreme climate indices for the MENA domain","authors":"Nazan An , Zekican Demiralay , Meltem Ucal , M. Levent Kurnaz","doi":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100564","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100564","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Environmental migration has recently become primary source of population growth and environmental degradation from extreme events has created the environmental refugee concept with a variety of manners affecting lives. For understanding of the environmental degradation impact on migration, a hybrid approach <em>(regional climate modelling, RegCM4.4</em> and <em>statistical modelling, ordered logit) has been applied for</em> 65 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for the periods of 2021–2050 and 2051–2080. It is aimed to examine how climate change affect migration by applying fundamental climate variables (i.e., maximum temperature, minimum temperature, and precipitation) and the control variables (i.e., the hot days, the tropical nights, and the dry days) in the MENA. While key findings indicate an increase in the minimum temperatures <strong>(T<sub>min</sub>)</strong> in future in all populous cities, the water amount may further decrease in the mid-latitude and Mediterranean with temperate climates due to precipitation change. While it may pose a high risk in the regions having experienced extreme temperatures e.g., tropical nights (<strong>T<sub>n</sub></strong>), it may further adversely affect ones not having experienced extremes. Considering statistically significant positive relationship between <strong>T<sub>min,</sub></strong> and net migration rate (<strong>N<sub>MIG</sub>),</strong> and negative relationship between precipitation and <strong>N<sub>MIG</sub>,</strong> it may encourage migration to cooler regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51332,"journal":{"name":"Climate Services","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 100564"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143844045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perspectives on climate change and adaptation and mitigation measures amongst farmers of Zamora − Ecuador","authors":"Daniel Capa-Mora , Jairo Medina , Ángel Benítez , Leticia Jiménez Álvarez","doi":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100565","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100565","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change is currently an inevitable phenomenon, due to the increase in greenhouse gases, deforestation, and low-tech agricultural development, which increase the vulnerability of ecosystems and food insecurity, especially in rural areas. A viable alternative to counteract the effects of climate change is to seek adaptation measures based on the perception and experience of farmers. This research evaluated the perception of climate change and adaptation measures those farmers in nine places of Zamora, province of Zamora Chinchipe-Ecuador, have regarding the risks posed by climate change. Data were collected in 2019–2020 through semi-structured surveys, composed of multiple-choice and open-ended questions. The results indicate that there have been climate changes in the last 5 years, caused by agricultural activities (deforestation, burning, use of agrochemicals, garbage), but most are unaware of mitigation and adaptation strategies; therefore, it is appropriate to generate knowledge regarding this phenomenon. On the other hand, gender, age, ethnicity, education, and economic activity among the farmers of Zamora showed significant effects on the perception of the effects of climate change. As such, this perception along with the experience of farmers, could support the development of training programs to seek alternatives for adaptation and mitigation in the study area.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51332,"journal":{"name":"Climate Services","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 100565"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143873804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Climate ServicesPub Date : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100572
Cem Işık , Serdar Ongan , Hasibul Islam , Jiale Yan , Rafael Alvarado , Munir Ahmad
{"title":"The nexus of economic growth, energy prices, climate policy uncertainty (CPU), and digitalization on ESG performance in the USA","authors":"Cem Işık , Serdar Ongan , Hasibul Islam , Jiale Yan , Rafael Alvarado , Munir Ahmad","doi":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100572","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100572","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the impact of economic growth, energy prices, digitalization, and climate policy uncertainty—key macroeconomic, technological, and political factors—on ESG performance in the U.S. within a comprehensive sustainability framework to mitigate climate change. The study reveals how these variables impact different levels of ESG performance using Quantile and Quantile-on-Quantile analyses. Findings show that economic growth positively impacts ESG performance. This can be interpreted as the economy incentivizing U.S. companies to adopt and enhance their ESG practices. No significant impact of climate policy uncertainty was found. This result can be interpreted as companies mitigating the effects of climate policy uncertainty on ESG through hedging and risk management strategies. The positive relationship between energy prices and ESG indicates that higher energy costs may improve ESG performance. This can be explained by the fact that sectors facing high energy prices may invest more in sustainable practices, such as adopting renewable energy. Therefore, policymakers should encourage businesses to take individual and collective action to adopt behavior against climate change. The negative impact of digitalization on ESG performance can be explained by the rapid pace of technological change, leading business companies to prioritize profitability over ESG considerations. This result may refer to the Corporate Sustainability Theory.<span><span><sup>1</sup></span></span> Therefore, businesses should integrate digitalization into climate strategies through regulatory measures and enhanced corporate reporting.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51332,"journal":{"name":"Climate Services","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 100572"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143879201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Climate ServicesPub Date : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100580
Victor Owusu , Jacob Asravor
{"title":"Do regional-specific differences influence smallholder farmers’ climate information use? Evidence from Ghana","authors":"Victor Owusu , Jacob Asravor","doi":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100580","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100580","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mounting evidence underscores the importance of improving smallholder farmers’ use of reliable climate information (CI) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Previous studies have not examined the differences in region-specific climate information use, as well as predictors of the source, type and timing of climate information use. In this study, we provide empirical evidence on how location-specific differences influence the source, type and timing of CI use. Integrating cross-sectional data from 503 households in the Upper West Region (UWR) and Brong-Ahafo Region (BAR) of Ghana into a multivariate probit model, our results indicate that farm households in the two regions exhibit different preferences regarding the source, type and timing of CI use. We find that while households in the BAR are more interested in CI ahead of the season – given that rainfall is relatively secure in that region, CI use ahead of the season is of less interest to those in the UWR where rainfall is more erratic. Our results further show that while CI source, type and timing are considerably influenced by education, distance to the farm, access to credit and extension in the UWR, gender, farm size, education and tractor access tend to drive the source, type and timing of CI use in BAR. These findings underscore the need for a more downscaled and context-specific strategy in disseminating CI services in the various regions of SSA.</div></div><div><h3>Practical implications</h3><div>Notwithstanding evidence that the adverse impacts of the changing climate on smallholder livelihoods continue to vary within and across communities, districts, regions and agro-ecological zones (<span><span>Abbam et al., 2018</span></span>) in sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about how location-specific distinctions in climate change impact, infrastructural endowments as well as socioeconomic and plot-level attributes of smallholder farmers influence farm households’ use of climate information (CI). Given that these location-specific distinctions can considerably influence the generation and dissemination of CI, and its subsequent uptake by farm households in various regions, the empirical findings from this study are relevant for policy formulation towards boosting the use of CI. Evidence from this study strongly suggests that the diverse locations of smallholder farmers tend to significantly influence the source, type and period of CI use; for example, farm households in the Brong-Ahafo Region, a relatively more infrastructurally developed region, have better prospects of accessing different types of CI from diverse sources. We further find that the period of the cropping season in which CI is used is considerably influenced by the location of the farmers; and we identify disparities in the plot-level, institutional and socioeconomic characteristics of rural households in these two study regions that significantly influence the types, sources and times of CI used by farm households. Con","PeriodicalId":51332,"journal":{"name":"Climate Services","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 100580"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144106070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Climate ServicesPub Date : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100581
Iftikhar Ali , Ashfaq Ahmad Shah , Bader Alhafi Alotaibi , Amjad Ali , Mohsin Khan
{"title":"Smallholder perceptions of climate change in high-altitude farming: the influence of household characteristics and local knowledge on adaptation strategies in Nagar District, Pakistan","authors":"Iftikhar Ali , Ashfaq Ahmad Shah , Bader Alhafi Alotaibi , Amjad Ali , Mohsin Khan","doi":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100581","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100581","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Local knowledge on climate change is important for designing efficient and effective context-specific adaptation policies. However, there is lack of empirical evidence on the local manifestations of climate change in the high-altitude areas of Pakistan. To fill this gap, this study examines the local knowledge-based perceptions of smallholders on climate change, highlighting transformations of farming system. To achieve study objective, data were collected through 430 structured household surveys, 27 key informant interviews and 4 focus group discussions. Data were analyzed on Microsoft Excel and SPSS using univariate and bivariate techniques. Results of univariate analysis discovered that the majority of respondents have perceived substantial climatic changes such as reduction in snowfall, increase in temperature and unpredictable precipitation. To overcome these variations, smallholders have implemented transformative strategies like use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides and a shift from traditional crop farming to horticultural production. Moreover, bivariate results show a significant positive relationship between education and climate change perception of respondents; signifying individuals with higher levels of education tend to have better perceptions. The study underlines the significance of developing context-specific adaptation policies and strategies by integrating local insights, thereby enhancing the resilience and adaptive capacity of smallholders in high mountain regions of Pakistan.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51332,"journal":{"name":"Climate Services","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 100581"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144221595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Climate ServicesPub Date : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100575
Maria del Pozo Garcia , Judith Gulikers , Bregje van der Bolt , Wouter Smolenaars , Estella Oncins , Perry den Brok , Fulco Ludwig
{"title":"Structuring climate service user groups for capacity building: A European Delphi-based approach","authors":"Maria del Pozo Garcia , Judith Gulikers , Bregje van der Bolt , Wouter Smolenaars , Estella Oncins , Perry den Brok , Fulco Ludwig","doi":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100575","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100575","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Defining and categorizing users within climate services is essential for effective capacity building, yet existing classifications remain ambiguous, particularly regarding their roles in collaborative processes. While the literature commonly categorizes users based on their roles in the production chain—from data providers to end-users— there is a need for a more nuanced understanding of these roles, particularly in relation to the knowledge and skills required for capacity building. This study aims to systematically identify and distinguish different target groups within climate services and identify the specific competencies required for effective participation. Using the Delphi method, we engaged a panel of expert trainers from CS capacity-building programs in three rounds of questionnaires. These questionnaires were designed to explore and refine their understanding of key target groups and the knowledge and skills required for each. Additionally, we assessed the trainers’ confidence levels in their evaluations of these aspects. Our findings establish a consensus on four primary target groups—Producers, Intermediaries, Enablers, and Reach-Out—each encompassing distinct sub-groups. Despite some overlap, the fourteen identified sub-groups possess unique knowledge and skills essential for the collaborative climate services. The results underscore the diversity of target groups in the climate production chain and highlight the necessity for tailored capacity building programs to address their specific needs. By enhancing the understanding of target audiences, climate services training initiatives can more effectively support the development of relevant competencies, ultimately strengthening the collaboration needed for climate services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51332,"journal":{"name":"Climate Services","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 100575"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143942647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}