IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for Climate Action and Sustainability

TL;DR

This workshop explores how data visualization can enhance understanding, decision-making, and communication to address climate change and sustainability challenges, fostering collaboration among researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders.

Contribution

It consolidates visualization research applications in climate action, emphasizing interactive, storytelling, and analytical tools to support environmental decision-making and public engagement.

Findings

Visualization aids understanding and decision-making in climate issues.

Interactive tools and storytelling enhance public engagement.

Workshops foster collaboration between visualization and environmental communities.

Abstract

This first workshop on visualization for climate action and sustainability aims to explore and consolidate the role of data visualization in accelerating action towards addressing the current environmental crisis. Given the urgency and impact of the environmental crisis, we ask how our skills, research methods, and innovations can help by empowering people and organizations. We believe visualization holds an enormous power to aid understanding, decision making, communication, discussion, participation, education, and exploration of complex topics around climate action and sustainability. Hence, this workshop invites submissions and discussion around these topics with the goal of establishing a visible and actionable link between these fields and their respective stakeholders. The workshop solicits work-in-progress and research papers as well as pictorials and interactive demos from the whole range of visualization research (dashboards, interactive spaces, scientific visualization, storytelling, visual analytics, explainability etc.), within the context of environmentalism (climate science, sustainability, energy, circular economy, biodiversity, etc.) and across a range of scenarios from public awareness and understanding, visual analysis, expert decision making, science communication, personal decision making etc. After presentations of submissions, the workshop will feature dedicated discussion groups around data driven interactive experiences for the public, and tools for personal and professional decision making.