File:Wikimania 2024 - Dilijan - Day 1 - Open as a Prerequisite for Solving the Climate Crisis.webm

English: Join this session to hear from organizations who are collaborating on projects and initiatives to profile the role of open in addressing the climate crisis. We will profile successes to date, highlight upcoming projects, and invite participation in our community-driven Open Goes COP movement.

We believe that open access to climate change research will enable faster and more equitable solutions to the most pressing issues of our time: climate change and the loss of biodiversity. Our panel will provide a case study of enabling global open access policies and highlight our experimentations in making seminal climate research open access.

Since 2022, Creative Commons, SPARC, and EIFL have been collaborating to bring a discipline-specific approach to open access (OA) focus at the intersection of OA and the climate crisis. Since witnessing the power of OA to research that was evidenced during the COVID-19 crisis where publishers opened up access to COVID-19-related research with the goal of collaborating on the development of a vaccine, it is clear that OA has a role to play when it comes to collaborating to solve the world's greatest challenges. Supported by a multidisciplinary steering committee, Creative Commons, SPARC, and EIFL launched the Open Climate Campaign with funding from Arcadia. After two years of the Campaign, we have created the foundation and a proof of concept for increasing OA of climate research and contributing to our ambitious goal to see all climate change and biodiversity research available as immediate open access.

During this panel, the speakers will outline how the Campaign created a model and acted as a catalyst for: - Increasing equitable collaboration in finding faster solutions to the climate crisis; - Contributing to a robust open knowledge commons which helps to address the information crisis, fight dis/misinformation, and better inform policy making; - Accelerating the systemic shift in scholarly communications that is sustainable, equitable, and community-driven.

This panel will also highlight our efforts and success to date as we facilitated cooperation and coordination at the intersection of the open access and climate change movements. By focusing on removing policy and legal barriers to the accessibility of climate change research, our Campaign accelerated the shift to open access for all climate change and biodiversity research, while also providing a case study and framework for future campaigns. We will also provide an outline of various initiatives: Unbinding and the Paper Pledge for the Planet that will be launching this fall, as well as Creative Commons' Open Climate Data Project.

This session will also be a call to action in preparation for COP29 as we support the development of the 'Open goes COP' movement, bringing together organizations and individuals who advocating for open access to be included within COP negotiations as a necessary condition to solving the climate crisis equitably. We hope to also highlight themes for community advocacy at COP and collaborate with the Wikimedia community in calling for research as a public good.

Open access is a necessary condition for solving the climate crisis. Without global climate solutions built on open and transparent research and data, we risk running out of time.