The Jackson School currently hosts the Yale hub of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) “My Climate Risk” lighthouse project. WCRP, convened by the World Meteorological Organization, UNESCO, and the International Science Council, coordinates and facilitates international climate research to develop, share, and apply the climate knowledge that contributes to societal well-being. The members of the My Climate Risk network aim to develop and mainstream a ‘bottom-up’ approach to recognizing and responding to regional climate risk. 

The Yale hub focuses on developing and documenting structures for increasing the integration between climate knowledge and environmental governance. Over the coming years, the hub will create a community of learning across campus on strategies for working with policymakers, communities, and others to develop research questions, incorporate research users in their work, and communicate about knowledge and uncertainties around environmental change. The hub will bring together faculty and student interests projects with a shared commitment to documenting and sharing transdisciplinary research practices and the lessons from failures as well as successes. It will also host a reading group and a practitioner speaker series on knowledge-governance exchange and convenings to catalyze interdisciplinary applied research on the practice and theory of connecting climate knowledge to local and regional governance.

 The Yale My Climate Risk Hub is currently convened by Jessica Seddon at the Jackson School of Global Affairs. 

Its initial Steering Committee draws on faculty across various departments: Deborah Coen (History), Rohini Pande (Economics), Juan Lora (Earth and Planetary Sciences), Karen Seto (Yale School of the Environment), and Julie Zimmerman (Vice Provost, Yale Planetary Solutions). Its initial work is supported by a gift from the Bamboo Grove Fund.