Aim 3
Climate and
Environment
Strategic highlights
A new strategic theme for 2022-25, Climate and Environment, recognises the accelerating climate emergency and the importance of Wikimedia’s role in providing up-to-date, accurate and unbiased information about the impact of climate change on our planet and people. Wikimedia can be a critical platform for understanding the intersectionality of climate information and environment, health and gender issues; our strategy is to build engagement and skills to support understanding across these areas.
Feel like I’m making a difference with a resource that is effectively the informational backbone of the internet.
Plant pathogens on Wikipedia. Image: Araucaria araucana (monkey puzzle) by Axel Kristinsson.Details
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- Creative Common
- Attribution
Climate Editathon Poster held on 26th January 2023 by TatjanaBaleta.Details
3% of our events and activities in 2022-23 were focused on Climate and Environment. We look to rapidly increase this focus, with the launching of our partnership in October 2022 with the Global Systems Institute and our first Wikimedian in Residence for Climate. As with COP26, we engaged with COP27 in 2022 as an opportunity to highlight our focus and the climate intersection with heritage and threatened heritage.
Our first Residency editathon was delivered in January 2023, so we are in the infancy of this strategic work. Articles edited were as diverse as The Great Barrier Reef, Food loss and Waste, Energy Security, and Rice. Partnerships are being developed across relevant institutions and academics, with Climate Visuals and Carbon Brief already engaged and adding images to Wikimedia Commons.