Recent Developments in Private Sector Engagement

1. Recent Developments in Private Sector Engagement Laura M. Delgado lÓPez Institute for Global Environmental Strategies

2. Overview • Motivation and goal of research • Approach • Report release: May 2012 • Goals of presentation: • Provide context: recent developments in this area • Share common themes of research • Pose questions for ongoing discussion

3. Public-Private Models Source: D. Rogers and V. Tsirkunov, Managing and Delivering National Meteorological and Hydro-meteorological Services (Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery: 2011)

4. Recent Developments • NOAA Partnership Policy (Release: 2006; Review: 2012) • Climate Partnership Task Force (CPTF) report (Release: October 2011) • Open Weather and Climate Services (OWCS) concept (Release: December 2011)

5. NOAA Partnership Policy • Response to NRC Fair Weather report: defined decision-making process • Acknowledges changing landscape, growing role of private sector and academia. • “The nation benefits from government information disseminated both by Federal agencies and by diverse nonfederal parties, including commercial and not-for-profit entities.” • Tension between actors: “some level of friction is inevitable.” • NOAA to foster growth of enterprise “to serve the public interest and the nation’s economy.” • Principles: • Mission connection • Consultation • Open Information Dissemination • Equity • Recognition of Roles of Others • January 2006; review every 5 years. EISWG will review in 2012. • NOAA reaching constituency through AMS; AMS to request feedback

6. CPTF Report • CPTF established by NOAA SAB’s Climate Working Group and EISWG to develop model for public-private sector collaboration in provision of climate services • “NOAA will engage and empower the private sector as a partner in creating climate products and services and delivering them to the nation.” • “NOAA cannot meet the accelerating demand for climate information alone—it must involve the private sector.” • Successful partnership key to +ROI • 70+ companies provide climate products and services • Open-access to publicly funded data, sustained collaboration are critical. • Build on weather enterprise success • Key actions: • Establish clear processes • Define roles w/o stifling innovation • Effectively manage data • Attract private sector collaboration • Incorporate outside data sets • Balance risk • Final report release October 2011

7. Open Weather and Climate Services • Developed by SAB’s EISWG • White paper on Enterprise’s limited access to NWS data • Issue: NWS collects/creates more than it can share; exchanges between NWS and Enterprise are not optimized • Assumes value of NWS info is realized outside • OWCS: • open access data policy, greater involvement in design/development of new technologies • side-by-side development – no need to filter information • “NOAA should adopt the OWCS paradigm as part of its core philosophy and work to implement it whenever and wherever possible .” • SAB response in November 2011 meeting. NOAA to examine implementation challenges. • EISWG holding workshop on May 1st engaging leadership from NOAA line offices. • Dr. Lubchenco will formally respond (within 1 year)

8. Common Themes • NOAA partnership policy is sufficient to guide public-private climate relationship. • Open dialogue/participation between NOAA and the private sector is key moving forward. • Though coupled in practice and policy, similarities/differences exist between weather and climate (from a services perspective). These are critical to determine policy/practice. • Key challenges: • User education is lacking in: climate needs, services available, and uncertainties/limitations of data. • Issue of communication: other ways to say climate, climate change that may appeal to broader communities. • Public-private partner roles are largely undefined. • Fundamental NOAA roles include: global data access/quality/stewardship. • Tension can be reduced by private sector-NOAA implementing attribution guidelines for data. Private sector becoming more vocal: this is why we need NOAA. Business opportunities can be exploited. Derived from research and interviews with: Edward Johnson, Eileen Shea, Peter Neilley, Warren Qualley,, Joel Smith, Lee Branscome, Scott Rayder

9. Defining Weather VS. Climate in respect to Services

10. Additional distinctions:Sector Maturity

11. Pending Questions • How can climate services be defined (from a user perspective)? i.e: actionable information • How are climate and weather similar/different from a services perspective? What lessons can be applied from the Weather Enterprise experience? • What are the main issues in climate service user education? How should the partnership address these? e.g. Climate Normals (their uses, limitations) • What are the impediments to using climate information services? • What principles define public and private roles? • Does the issue of visibility/attribution engender competition? How can it be addressed? • How should public-private engagement be structured?

12. Questions? Comments? Laura Delgado López 703-312-7923 Laura_delgado@strategies.org