About Us
Our mission is to assist governments in solving the collective action problem of climate change. We convene international groups of experts to provide rigorous, fact-based and independent assessment on international climate change policy. We aim to connect leading applied research on international climate change issues to the policy process and public debate, raising the quality and coherence of advice provided on policy formation. To effectively communicate insights into climate change policy, Climate Strategies works with decision-makers in governments and business, particularly, but not restricted to, the countries of the European Union and EU institutions.
A bridge between the research sector and applied policy analysis, Climate Strategies acts in ways that can help governments to manage the complexities both of assessing the options, and of securing a degree of international and stakeholder/public consensus around them. Our core capacity is therefore to convene projects and give them impact in the international and business communities.
Established in April 2006 by 6 leading climate policy researchers, as a network organisation , our structure is unique, in that it will not produce consultancy reports to government or business. Rather, in consultation with a range of stakeholders, it brings together established independent experts to help focus their knowledge on particular dimensions of the international climate change problem. This flexible structure - not relying on full time in-house researchers but rather convening established researchers from different institutions to address specific applied questions - means that Climate Strategies can deliver fruits of extensive academically-based research across a wide range of topics, much faster than with normal academic research cycles. In this way our research achieves far greater impact than is normal with academic research, or indeed consultancy. Its quality control and review procedures, public orientation, and multi-domestic base derived from working with institutions in many different countries, gives us greater intellectual objectivity and political credibility at an international level.
