IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/climat/v178y2025i4d10.1007_s10584-025-03873-z.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Broadening diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in the process and development of climate assessments

Author

Listed:
  • Eric K. Chu

    (University of California, Davis)

  • Gillian Bowser

    (Colorado State University)

  • Abby G. Frazier

    (Clark University)

  • Alyssa Quintyne

    (Community Organizer)

  • Linda Shi

    (Cornell University)

  • Pamela McElwee

    (Rutgers University)

Abstract

Comprehensive assessments of scientific knowledge are essential to inform efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change impacts. The Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), released in late 2023, adopted clear diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion (DEAI) goals and trainings, which helped diversify expert participation, broaden the types of knowledge included, and widen public engagement. This Letter, written by NCA5 authors, reflects on the impacts and limitations of these efforts and suggests specific actions to further promote collaboration, honor and recognize the knowledge of frontline communities, and guide more just and holistic climate assessments.

Suggested Citation

  • Eric K. Chu & Gillian Bowser & Abby G. Frazier & Alyssa Quintyne & Linda Shi & Pamela McElwee, 2025. "Broadening diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in the process and development of climate assessments," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 178(4), pages 1-11, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:climat:v:178:y:2025:i:4:d:10.1007_s10584-025-03873-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s10584-025-03873-z
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10584-025-03873-z
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s10584-025-03873-z?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Jonathan Rigg & Lisa Reyes Mason, 2018. "Five dimensions of climate science reductionism," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 8(12), pages 1030-1032, December.
    2. Max W. Callaghan & Jan C. Minx & Piers M. Forster, 2020. "A topography of climate change research," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 10(2), pages 118-123, February.
    3. David Viner & Candice Howarth, 2014. "Practitioners' work and evidence in IPCC reports," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 4(10), pages 848-850, October.
    4. James D. Ford & Laura Cameron & Jennifer Rubis & Michelle Maillet & Douglas Nakashima & Ashlee Cunsolo Willox & Tristan Pearce, 2016. "Including indigenous knowledge and experience in IPCC assessment reports," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 6(4), pages 349-353, April.
    5. Christopher W. Avery & Allison R. Crimmins & Allyza R. Lustig & April D. Lamb & Isabel J. Fuller & Ciara Lemery & Aaron Grade & Daniel Barrie, 2025. "Navigating complex waters: Designing a process for the development of the National Climate Assessment," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 178(3), pages 1-24, March.
    6. Silke Beck & Martin Mahony, 2018. "The IPCC and the new map of science and politics," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 9(6), November.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Allyza R. Lustig & Aaron Grade & Zena N. Grecni & Jeremy S. Hoffman & Neil Matouka & Danielle Meeker & Rachael Novak & Adam Parris & Allison Crimmins, 2025. "Public engagement in climate assessment: lessons and opportunities," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 178(6), pages 1-23, June.
    2. Abby G. Frazier & Allyza R. Lustig & Michael Chang & Emile H. Elias & Renee A. McPherson & Victoria W. Keener & Zena N. Grecni & Henry P. Huntington & Ellen L. Mecray & Kimberly M. Wood & Kathie D. De, 2025. "Reflections on preparing regional chapters for NCA5," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 178(4), pages 1-23, April.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. E. Lisa F. Schipper & Navroz K. Dubash & Yacob Mulugetta, 2021. "Climate change research and the search for solutions: rethinking interdisciplinarity," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 168(3), pages 1-11, October.
    2. Wim Carton & Adeniyi Asiyanbi & Silke Beck & Holly J. Buck & Jens F. Lund, 2020. "Negative emissions and the long history of carbon removal," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 11(6), November.
    3. Allyza R. Lustig & Aaron Grade & Zena N. Grecni & Jeremy S. Hoffman & Neil Matouka & Danielle Meeker & Rachael Novak & Adam Parris & Allison Crimmins, 2025. "Public engagement in climate assessment: lessons and opportunities," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 178(6), pages 1-23, June.
    4. David García-del-Amo & P. Graham Mortyn & Victoria Reyes-García, 2020. "Including indigenous and local knowledge in climate research: an assessment of the opinion of Spanish climate change researchers," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 160(1), pages 67-88, May.
    5. Lea Berrang‐Ford & Friederike Döbbe & Ruth Garside & Neal Haddaway & William F. Lamb & Jan C. Minx & Wolfgang Viechtbauer & Vivian Welch & Howard White, 2020. "Editorial: Evidence synthesis for accelerated learning on climate solutions," Campbell Systematic Reviews, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 16(4), December.
    6. Friederike Hartz, 2024. "“We are not droids”– IPCC participants’ senses of responsibility and affective experiences across the production, assessment, communication and enactment of climate science," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 177(6), pages 1-21, June.
    7. Neal R. Haddaway & Max W. Callaghan & Alexandra M. Collins & William F. Lamb & Jan C. Minx & James Thomas & Denny John, 2020. "On the use of computer‐assistance to facilitate systematic mapping," Campbell Systematic Reviews, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 16(4), December.
    8. V. Savo & K. E. Kohfeld & J. Sillmann & C. Morton & J. Bailey & A. S. Haslerud & C. Le Quéré & D. Lepofsky, 2024. "Using human observations with instrument-based metrics to understand changing rainfall patterns," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-12, December.
    9. Pamela McElwee, 2025. "A tale of two panels: learning and coordinating across IPCC, IPBES, and other science-policy interfaces," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 178(3), pages 1-20, March.
    10. Paola A. Torres-Slimming & Carlee Wright & Cesar P. Carcamo & Patricia J. Garcia & IHACC Research Team & Sherilee L. Harper, 2019. "Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: A Mixed Methods Study of Health-Related Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) for Indigenous Shawi in the Peruvian Amazon," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(13), pages 1-17, July.
    11. Abby G. Frazier & Allyza R. Lustig & Michael Chang & Emile H. Elias & Renee A. McPherson & Victoria W. Keener & Zena N. Grecni & Henry P. Huntington & Ellen L. Mecray & Kimberly M. Wood & Kathie D. De, 2025. "Reflections on preparing regional chapters for NCA5," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 178(4), pages 1-23, April.
    12. Niklas Wagner & Anna-Katharina Hornidge, 2025. "Unlearning modernity? A critical examination of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 178(2), pages 1-29, February.
    13. Claudia Matus & Pascale Bussenius & Pablo Herraz & Valentina Riberi & Manuel Prieto, 2021. "Nature Is for Trees, Culture Is for Humans: A Critical Reading of the IPCC Report," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(21), pages 1-9, October.
    14. Mariana Madruga de Brito & Danny Otto & Christian Kuhlicke, 2021. "Tracking Topics and Frames Regarding Sustainability Transformations during the Onset of the COVID-19 Crisis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(19), pages 1-19, October.
    15. Shinichiro Asayama, 2024. "The history and future of IPCC special reports: A dual role of politicisation and normalisation," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 177(9), pages 1-27, September.
    16. Abel, Dennis & Lieth, Jonas & Jünger, Stefan, 2024. "Mapping the spatial turn in social science energy research. A computational literature review," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 201(C).
    17. Kevin Grecksch & Carola Klöck, 0. "Access and allocation in climate change adaptation," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 0, pages 1-16.
    18. Roxana Roos, 2024. "Researchers’ perceptions of their collaboration with indigenous and local people in environmental change research," Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Springer, vol. 29(8), pages 1-22, December.
    19. Kythreotis, Andrew P. & Hannaford, Matthew & Howarth, Candice & Bosworth, Gary, 2024. "Translating climate risk assessments into more effective adaptation decision-making: the importance of social and political aspects of place-based climate risk," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 122155, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    20. Kerstin K. Zander & Stephen T. Garnett & Harald Sterly & Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson & Barbora Šedová & Hermann Lotze-Campen & Carmen Richerzhagen & Hunter S. Baggen, 2022. "Topic modelling exposes disciplinary divergence in research on the nexus between human mobility and the environment," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 9(1), pages 1-9, December.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:climat:v:178:y:2025:i:4:d:10.1007_s10584-025-03873-z. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.