The What Works Climate Solutions Summit set out to promote and catalyze systematic evidence on climate solutions for upcoming climate change assessments – particularly the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – as well as other forms of scientific policy advice.
It brought together leading experts on climate solutions, key institutions curating scientific policy advice on climate change (including IPCC, the Lancet Countdown, etc.), evidence synthesis communities (Campbell Collaboration, Cochrane, Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, Evidence Synthesis International, Evidence-based Research Network) as well as policymakers, research funders and other users of evidence to make progress on three major goals: Understanding what works, building evidence synthesis capacity and communicating change.