Incorporating scientific insights into decision-making is crucial for addressing the impacts of climate change. Yet, translating this knowledge into effective policy communication and implementation remains challenging, especially in global or multilateral contexts. The complexity of climate change and the abundance of available data makes it difficult to distil relevant information for policymakers.

Irina Marinov, associate professor of Earth and Environmental Science, and her colleagues have developed the Global Climate Security Atlas, an online, open-source platform to bridge this gap. This tool provides free access to climate risk assessments, including hazard, vulnerability, and exposure maps, essential for informing evidence-based strategies in climate disaster preparedness. Through dynamic collaborations, students and researchers, the platform will continue to explore the interconnectedness of human, non-human, and earth systems processes to inform global policy making and incentivize interdisciplinary learning and teaching, providing opportunities for co-production of knowledge among disciplines. A new working group will develop a hotspot finder to allow users to calculate overall risks for a particular sector or region of interest.