COP, continues in Glasgow

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By: Greg Emmerich. CC BY-SA As the United Nations Climate Change Conference, officially known as the th Conference of Parties, or COP, continues in Glasgow, Scotland, Im pleased to share some good news. The Open Society Foundations approved funding for Creative Commons, SPARC and EIFL to lead a global campaign promoting open access to climate and biodiversity research. This is a promising new strategy to encourage governments, foundations, institutes, universities and environmental organizations to use open to accelerate progress towards solving the climate crisis and to preserve global biodiversity.



Catherine Stihler, CCs CEO and a native of Scotland, publicly announced the campaign Gibraltar Email List during her keynote at the University of St Andrews Power to the people event and will have the opportunity to announce the campaign at a COP fringe event Open UK: Open Technology for Sustainability on November. CC is particularly happy to have the opportunity to work closely with our longtime allies in the open access movement to ensure that this effort is truly a global campaign, and hope that this initiative will help to provide a blueprint for future funding of similar collaborative campaigns.



Additional Detail Climate change, and the resulting harm to our global biodiversity, is one of the worlds most pressing challenges. The complexity of the climate crisis requires collaborative global interventions that center on equity and evidence-based mitigation practices informed by multidisciplinary research. Many researchers, governments, and global environmental organizations recognize the importance of the open sharing of research to accelerate progress, but lack cohesive strategies and mechanisms to facilitate effective knowledge sharing and collaboration across disciplinary and geographic borders.