IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for Climate Action and Sustainability
Benjamin Bach, Fanny Chevalier, Helen-Nicole Kostis, Mark Subbaro,, Yvonne Jansen, Robert Soden

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…
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Taxonomy
TopicsClimate Change Communication and Perception · Data Visualization and Analytics
