Climate Action

The Climate Crisis is one of the most urgent challenges for humankind, and its impacts are becoming increasingly severe. However, whilst perception and awareness of the crisis is increasing, also is the gap between awareness and action: While tackling the Climate Crisis needs action in every aspect of society, it seems to be unclear for many stakeholders what type of action is in fact needed and demanded. This lack of ‘knowing how to act’ becomes especially apparent in the grave inaction of individuals and societies as a whole. Hence, a very heterogeneous group of stakeholders is concerned about taking the right actions and making a wide variety of efforts, ranging from rainwater harvesting and community based approaches to promoting bikeability and creating green spaces in urban environments. To combat the Climate Crisis, intentional action is needed and has to start at various levels and locations.

HeiGIT supports stakeholders by providing actionable data analyses and tools to help communities and decision-makers to achieve climate neutrality. In the first step, a platform is developed where the status of a wide variety of high resolution spatial climate action indicators, even at the scale of neighbourhoods, such as user-friendly public transportation or the availability of green energy, is displayed and thus made accessible to communities and decision-makers. This geographic information is tailored to meet the specific demands of different actors in each respective region, and even down to the neighbourhood scale. On a local level, volunteered geographic information (VGI) can help to uncover local perspectives and fill data gaps.

For further information, please contact Kirsten von Elverfeldt.