FAIR2Adapt

Climate adaptation strategies are essential for guiding responses to climate-related risks at local and regional levels. These strategies often serve as reference documents for policymakers, practitioners, and other stakeholders involved in planning and implementing adaptation measures. However, such documents and datasets are often difficult to locate, interpret, or reuse due to inconsistent formats, insufficient metadata, or unclear communication. The project addresses these challenges and aims to make such documents and datasets more accessible by applying FAIR principles  (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) to a selected climate adaptation strategy and its associated climate risk and adaptation data, as well as by enhancing data-policy communication and, in this context, the updating process of adaptation strategies. Understanding the needs of city council staff, policymakers, stakeholders, and data users will also be a key focus, to ensure that the data and information provided by the strategy can be effectively integrated into their work.

As part of this project, adelphi will develop with the City of Bremen, an interactive, user-friendly data dashboard that integrates climate and vulnerability data to FAIRify the city's adaptation strategy. Understanding the needs of local council, policymakers, and other stakeholders will guide the dashboard's design, ensuring that the data and information it provides can be effectively integrated into local planning and decision-making processes. Climate narratives will be incorporated to contextualise the data, supporting effective science-policy communication by presenting climate risk and adaptation information in a way that is understandable and actionable. Through the development of the dashboard, adelphi will ensure the FAIRification of the underlying data, enhancing its accessibility, usability, and reusability.

This case study seeks to:

• Enhance the accessibility, usability and clarity of a climate adaptation strategy by applying FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles to both the policy document itself and its underlying climate risk and adaptation data.
• Support effective science-policy communication by ensuring that climate risk and adaptation information is structured, documented, and presented in a way that is understandable and actionable for policymakers and stakeholders.