Supporting KSAs for this area

Knowledge Of Ability To Attributes
  • Systematic and accepted methods of vulnerability and impact analysis
  • Domains of mitigation, climate preparedness and adaptation, sustainability, disaster risk reduction, biodiversity, health, and social justice.
  • Analyze information
  • Interpret scientific data
  • Draw from both Indigenous and Western science perspectives, concepts, and theories
  • Reflective/adaptable thinking
  • Critical thinking (incl. skepticism of misinformation)
Climate Data & Information Analysis Competencies
1. React/Follow 2. Act/Apply 3. Anticipate/Initiate/Enable 4. Lead/Strategize
Competency Title Access and use climate information Collect climate information Analyze climate information Evaluate and interpret climate information
Competency Statement Access and use climate information within scope of own role and areas of responsibility Collect climate information relevant to role and areas of responsibility Analyze climate information related to own role and areas of responsibility Evaluate and interpret climate information from a range of sources and for different contexts
Performance Criteria
  1. Apply a theoretical and practical grounding in the core concepts of climate action
  2. Apply evidence-informed frameworks
  3. Critically review peer-reviewed and grey literature (e.g., government reports)
  4. Distinguish the relationships between climate change adaptation and mitigation
  5. Distinguish the relationships between weather and climate
  6. Review established metrics, data, and enabling conditions
  7. Use, shape, handle and share different sets of climate information and knowledge
  8. Make informed decisions and take responsible action based on information
  1. Define geographical scope/organizational boundaries
  2. Gather historical/baseline climate data
  3. Acquire local/regional climate projections and downscaled data
  4. Identify climate confidence levels and scale of change (thresholds, timeframes)
  5. Identify relevant climate scenarios and impacts to be assessed
  6. Identify populations/subpopulations and assets to include in assessment
  1. Apply scientific principles and core concepts of climate change science, mitigation, and resilience
  2. Analyse emerging patterns and short – and long-term climate action options
  3. Analyse social, economic, cultural, and historical contexts
  4. Build from and leverage existing sustainability, climate adaptation, energy and emissions reduction, and biodiversity research, plans and goals
  5. Gather and synthesize climate data
  6. Collate, analyse, and structure information
  7. Present evidence/research using statistical and wider analytical skills
  8. Access, critically appraise and assess the quality of published research and other potential sources of evidence
  9. Interpret, use, and present data and evidence in defining policy and practice
  10. Integrate facts into climate systems analysis.
  1. Assess the importance of climate change and climate action research.
  2. Interpret peer-reviewed and grey literature
  3. Assess the validity of climate change and climate action research.
  4. Apply systematic and accepted methods of vulnerability and impact analysis
  5. Understand climate system interactions, patterns, events, feedback loops, thresholds, atmospheric/ecosystem processes, and interconnections between various systems
  6. Translate climate scenarios, current climate trends, and regional and global impacts
  7. Translate complex or detailed climate science and climate action information
  8. Generate new information on mitigation, adaptation, and adaptive capacity
  9. Communicate complex or detailed climate science and climate action information
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