The VALORADA project has been featured in the April 2026 edition of Open Access Government with an article highlighting its work on improving access to and usability of climate data for adaptation planning and decision-making.
The article, developed with contributions from GERICS, presents VALORADA’s innovative approach to revealing the climate-adaptation value of locally sourced datasets. While municipalities and regions routinely generate large volumes of socio-economic, demographic, environmental, land use, infrastructure and satellite data, these datasets often remain underused in climate adaptation processes despite their significant potential to support local resilience planning.
VALORADA addresses this challenge by demonstrating that climate adaptation does not solely depend on producing more climate data, but also on making existing local data meaningful, accessible and actionable for decision-makers.
By connecting climate information with datasets already collected and managed by local authorities, VALORADA contributes to the development of climate services that are better aligned with users’ needs and operational realities. The project ultimately seeks to support administrations in moving from fragmented data landscapes towards more informed, transparent and collectively justified adaptation decisions.
The full article is available here.
