The VALORADA project is pleased to announce the publication of the scientific article “The challenge of upscaling climate services: Towards a common framework” in the journal Climate Services.

The article represents a major collaborative effort bringing together expertise from more than 30 European projects working on climate adaptation, climate services, and resilience-building across Europe. Developed within the framework of the Working Group on Climate Services of the MIP4Adapt Community of Practice, the publication reflects VALORADA’s active contribution to advancing knowledge and practical solutions for climate adaptation under the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change.

The publication was co-developed with contributions from leading European organisations and research institutions, including GERICS, CMCC, ECMWF and EARSC, alongside numerous Horizon Europe projects and climate adaptation initiatives.

Addressing a Key Challenge for Climate Adaptation

As climate impacts intensify across Europe and globally, climate services are becoming increasingly important tools for supporting evidence-based decision-making. These services provide climate-related data, forecasts, indicators, tools, and guidance that can help public authorities, businesses, researchers, and communities anticipate and respond to climate risks.

However, while many climate services have demonstrated strong local or sectoral value, scaling them up and transferring them to other contexts remains a major challenge. Solutions that prove effective in one region or sector are often difficult to replicate elsewhere due to differences in governance structures, institutional capacities, territorial specificities, user needs, and available datasets.

The newly published article addresses this challenge directly by exploring how climate services can be:

  • transferred to new territories and organisations;
  • replicated across different governance or socio-economic contexts;
  • extended to additional sectors or user communities;
  • institutionalised to ensure long-term sustainability and operational uptake.

The publication also proposes a shared conceptual framework to better understand and support the upscaling process, helping bridge existing gaps between local experimentation and broader implementation across Europe.

VALORADA’s Contribution to More Scalable and Actionable Climate Services

Through its involvement in this collaborative initiative, VALORADA contributes to ongoing European efforts to strengthen the usability, scalability, and long-term impact of climate services. The project’s participation reflects its broader ambition to support regional and local authorities in assessing climate risks, improving adaptation planning, and facilitating the uptake of actionable climate intelligence.

By fostering collaboration between research institutions, climate service providers, policymakers, and territorial stakeholders, the initiative also contributes to the objectives of the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change and the wider European climate resilience agenda.

The article further highlights the importance of cooperation across projects and disciplines to accelerate learning, avoid fragmentation, and promote shared methodologies capable of supporting adaptation efforts at scale.

Access the Publication

The full article is available here.