Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC) strategic plan 2021-2025

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2021-10

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Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)

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Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)

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PCIC is a regional climate service provider dedicated to ensuring the provision of quantitative, high quality climate information to stakeholders and the public in BC and more widely. PCIC considers itself to be a competent, innovative and reliable climate service provider that works at a very high level of technical proficiency. Motivated by our stakeholder' needs, PCIC bases its services on results obtained from the global climate research community and its own applied, regional climate research. It also works to increase the capacity of others to use climate information and understand its limitations. This plan articulates PCIC's ambition to serve as THE authoritative climate services provider in our region by setting out several service objectives for the organization that encompass a spectrum of activities ranging from direct data delivery to user-specific interpretation and training. These overarching service objectives are supported by several strategic objectives that are required to achieve our service objectives as well as a strategy for electronic services delivery. A key tool in achieving these objectives will be the careful use of climate change simulations produced for Phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6; Eyring et al., 2016), which uses updated models compared to those considered in IPCC (2014), and considers a wider range of emissions scenarios, called Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs).

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UN SDG 13: Climate Action, #annual report, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), #strategic plan

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