Creative Commons, SPARC and EIFL have partnered to launch the Open Climate Campaign “to promote open access to research to accelerate progress towards solving the climate crisis and preserving global biodiversity.” The Open Climate Campaign directly connects the open availability of research and knowledge with the development of remedies to the climate crisis across disciplines and geographies. With funding from the Open Society Foundations and Arcadia, this multi-year campaign has 11 goals, including:
- Bring attention to the issue of access to knowledge on climate change;
- Clear legal and policy barriers;
- Help national governments, funders and environmental organizations to adopt and implement strong OA policies;
- Ensure inclusive outcomes throughout the campaign; and
- Identify and open important climate and biodiversity research.
The Campaign offers action kits for researchers, funders, environmental organizations and national governments with recommendations and resources for each entity to contribute to making climate change and biodiversity research openly available. Additional resources and services are in development.
The launch of the Open Climate Campaign is in sync with this year’s Open Access Week theme, “Open for Climate Justice.” Open for Climate Justice events at UMass Amherst will be announced soon.
