How to avoid drowning in a sea of climate data

One of the side events on the first afternoon at the UN’s COP 20 climate summit organized by the Climate Knowledge Brokers Group, an alliance of 50 organisations working to improve access to climate- and development-related information made a case for getting to grips with the challenge of information abundance in order to accelerate progress on climate adaptation — through marshalling what the speakers called ‘climate knowledge brokers’, reports SciDevNet.