Climate Adaptation Unlocking Value Chains with the Power of Technology 2025

Collaboration platforms – roles To collectively address adaptation challenges along value chains, collaboration platforms will play three roles: unlock and share data, integrate and develop technologies and support implementation with shared experience and insights. 1. Unlock and share data Oversee the collection, aggregation and maintenance of climate and value chain data from diverse public and private sources, such as data commons, Earth observation systems and academic or scientific research. To ensure data is usable, up-to-date and securely handled, the platform will need to clean and process it, ensuring compliance with privacy standards and regulations. Value chain participants should select relevant data for adaptation and agree on secure data-sharing protocols, pre-empting competition concerns and ensuring stakeholders’ interests are protected. Participants must recognize that sharing climate data is critical for effective adaptation. 2. Integrate and develop technologies Accelerate research and innovation in adaptation by creating public-private partnerships to develop and share technologies and capabilities, such as AI foundation models, data analytics engines and open-source applications, allowing customization. It must provide secured digital public infrastructure (DPI) to support the ecosystem with cloud storage and computing power (e.g. next-gen computing systems). The power of sharing technological innovations collaboratively and responsibly has already been proven in different areas: Linux, which is freely available to all, has evolved into one of the most robust operating systems in the world, while the new wave of Generative AI systems, such as ChatGPT, would not have emerged without openly available information on the internet.62 3. Support implementation with shared experience and insights Ensure standardization, transparency and interoperability of data and insights between stakeholders, by integrating existing use cases in the value chain. It will seek to create opportunities along the value chain to connect stakeholders with technology providers and accelerate use cases deployment. By sharing best practices and experience, participants can also facilitate the development of new applications and enhance the scalability of adaptation efforts across multiple sectors. Climate data should have a label on it: if this is an asset that should be shared across government or made public, it must become a public good. But it must be treated as a long-term asset, much like physical infrastructure. Currently, the failure to maintain and update risk data after its initial use leads to significant failures in project planning and increases future costs. Data investments should be provided with maintenance budgets for the lifetime of the infrastructure they support and with training plans for those that should provide updates to datasets. Edward Anderson, World Bank Climate Adaptation: Unlocking Value Chains with the Power of Technology 30