CRF’s mission is rooted in the recognition of a fundamental disconnect between the rapid onset of climate change effects and the lack of investment in our collective capacity to proactively prepare for the impacts those effects are having, and will increasingly have, on communities and natural systems.
We define climate services broadly to include science-based climate resilience planning guidance, adaptation trainings, policy guidance, communications, and other resources that enable local decision-makers, resource managers, planners and other practitioners to better understand, anticipate, prepare for and adapt to forthcoming impacts of anthropogenic climate change.
While the development and availability of climate services has expanded in recent years, local and regional decision-makers are still finding it difficult to identify or access resources that meet their needs or are unable to translate climate change impact forecasts into their decision and policy-making processes.
CRF’s programs are designed to address these deficiencies and help evolve the “ecosystem” of services, organizations, and resources available to better serve the changing needs of people, the communities they live in, and the natural systems on which we all depend to build climate resilience. Our programs are currently divided into two categories of investment: Coordination and Capacity-Building investments.
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