Date: 2010
Author: Emma Visman, Andy Morse, Cyril Caminade, Mike Edwards

Exchange report in Joint Edition of the Newsletter of the Climate Variability and Predictability Project (CLIVAR) Exchanges and theCLIVAR Variability of the American Monsoon Systems Project (VAMOS).

While governments are making significant resources available for climate change research and adaptation programmes, limited funding or efforts have, to date, been devoted to ensuring that those most likely to be adversely affected by climate change are able to understand, use and inform the climate science produced. There are, currently, significant mismatches between the climate information which is available and that which could effectively inform efforts to address the impacts of climate change.