About Us
The Open Climate Campaign aims to increase equitable collaboration in finding faster solutions to the climate crisis through open access.
We facilitate cooperation and coordination at the intersection of the open access and climate change movements. By focusing on removing policy and legal barriers to the accessibility of climate change research, our Campaign accelerates the shift to open access for all climate change and biodiversity research, while also providing a case study and framework for future campaigns.
Our Work
With our partners, we provide policy roadmaps, consulting, training, and information sharing at scale for governments, funders, researchers, policy-makers, librarians, and all those working collectively to challenge the status quo in providing open access to research by recognizing that finding solutions to climate change cannot wait.
Open access is a necessary condition for solving the climate crisis.
Without global climate solutions built on open and transparent research and data, we risk running out of time.
Our Vision
Our Principles
Our work is grounded in a systemic shift.
Our principles call for the removal of the artificial barriers between knowledge producers and knowledge consumers recognizing that restricting access to knowledge is short-sighted and impedes collaborative and sustainable action. The solution of open access to climate change research is embedded within the need to disrupt the current systems. We urgently must find solutions.
- Sharing knowledge is a social justice issue: The path to openness must be based on re-distributing power, and dismantling the status quo.
- Accelerating progress requires equity, inclusivity, and global empowerment: Openness is a prerequisite to unlocking equitable solutions to the climate crisis; we all need access to climate research.
- Knowledge about our world is a public good: Openness is a tool to combat climate mis/disinformation. Access to quality open science allows us to be better informed, faster, and more efficiently.
Our Staff
Monica Granados
Assistant Director, Open Climate
Creative Commons
Cable Green
Director of Open Knowledge
Creative Commons
Heather Joseph
Executive Director
SPARC
Iryna Kuchma
Open Access Program Manager
Electronic Information for Libraries
Rima Kupryte
Director
Electronic Information for Libraries
Rebecca Ross
Open Climate Campaign Communications Manager
Creative Commons
Katie Steen-James
Manager of Public Policy & Advocacy
SPARC
Steering Committee
Kostas Glinos
Science & Technology Policy
Expert
Monica Granados
Assistant Director, Open Climate
Creative Commons
Cable Green
Director of Open Knowledge
Creative Commons
Melissa Hagemann
Open Knowledge Advocate
Heather Joseph
Executive Director
SPARC
Iryna Kuchma
Open Access Program Manager
Electronic Information for Libraries
Rima Kupryte
Director
Electronic Information for Libraries
Daisy Larios
Library and Publications Manager
International Union for Conservation of Nature
Ross Mounce
Director of Open Access Programmes
Arcadia Fund
Frances Pinter
Executive Chair
Central European University Press
Katie Steen-James
Manager of Public Policy & Advocacy
SPARC
Peter Suber
Senior Advisor on Open Access
Harvard University
Madeleine Thompson
Director of Library & Archives
Wildlife Conservation Society
Marcos Vinícius Carneiro Vital
Professor, Experimental Ecology and Modeling in Biological Diversity
Universidade Federal de Alagoa
The Open Climate Campaign is a partnership between Creative Commons, SPARC and EIFL.
This campaign is made possible by grants from the Open Society Foundations and Arcadia.
