What is the name of your organization?
La Ruta del Clima
What is the name of your solution?
AI-Powered Climate Insights
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
A Climate Impacts Information System that integrates community sourced, climate and other data sources through artificial intelligence technology.
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
San José, Costa Rica
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
Costa Rica
What type of organization is your solution team?
Nonprofit
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What specific problem are you solving?
The problem the project aims to address is the lack of an integrated system that connects community reports on climate-related losses and damages with available meteorological data, limiting the ability to identify vulnerability patterns and accurately assess impacts. This disconnect and the high cost of human lead data analysis processes, non-scale appropriate and non-standardized data available, added to the complex risk variables and the lack of a system that processes these inputs, hinders the development of effective responses and coping strategies for governments and communities for the climate crisis, as well as advocacy for climate policies that prioritize the most affected communities. Data triangulation through information-sharing and standardization platforms is essential to generate evidence-based solutions and strengthen community participation in climate-related decision-making processes.
What is your solution?
The solution aims to implement a Climate Impacts Information System that integrates community sourced, climate and other data sources through artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The idea will be developed on 3 modules including the multilevel climate data generation, the multilevel climate data analysis and its use through applied science. The integrated system will analyze through triangulation and AI technology various data sources including multilevel climate data to identify patterns, causality, and socio-climatic projections. This will allow the generated information to be applied to address challenges of creating solutions in an effective way for communities' impacted by climate change. We seek to contribute to climate action in Costa Rican coastal communities by integrating community and meteorological data, enabling the identification of vulnerability patterns and developing solutions through data collection. It also aims to strengthen local capacities to monitor and analyze climate-related impacts, fostering greater community participation in informed decision-making. We aim to promote the developing of adaptation strategies and actions to address loss and damage. The initiative aligns with local, regional, and international priorities by supporting the SDGs, in climate resilience, climate action, and risk management. It strengthens local adaptation and coping mechanisms while promoting advocacy in multilateral decision-making spaces.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Coastal communities are closely connected to ecosystems such as national parks, mangroves, and coastal areas, which are impacted by climate-related loss and damage. The solution seeks to work with the most affected populations in these communities including women, elderly people and youth who are particularly vulnerable because of a historic disadvantage of the region in terms of high poverty rates, low incomes, high rates of emigration and high exposure to climate extreme events.
Through the solution we’ll strengthen local capacities to monitor and analyze climate impacts, promoting sustainable management of these critical ecosystems. Additionally, it seeks to encourage active community participation in climate decision-making, aligning with local priorities such as biodiversity conservation and global objectives related to climate action, resilience, and risk management.
The solution will also interact closely with institutional stakeholders such as universities and academia which could contribute to the information analysis in a transdisciplinary way. Once the results reports are generated this information will be useful for local and national governments and public institutions for the planning of adaptation strategies and actions to respond and address losses and damages caused by climate change.
