Manila Observatory - KLIMA Centre (MO-KLIMA)

KLIMA has been reinstituted to become the Manila Observatory’s interface between science and society. It aims to provide  science-based policy and decision support, technical assistance, capacity-building, and information-education-communication initiatives to its stakeholders and partners, i.e., national and local government agencies, international partners in Southeast Asia, non-government organizations, the private sector, and others. It aims to draw from the scientific, technical and research services of the different laboratories to ensure that science is harnessed by society and that social concerns shape the kind of science being done by the Observatory.

The Manila Observatory is a research institution that does science to empower communities to take up the urgent challenges of sustainable development and disaster risk resilience. Established in 1865 under the auspices of the Jesuit mission in the Philippines, the Observatory was the official meteorological and seismological agency of the Philippines until operations were handed over to the Philippine government in the aftermath of World War II. Since then, as a non-profit institution, it has been bringing science to bear on various environmental concerns.

These days, the Observatory has been deploying the atmospheric and earth sciences, remote sensing technologies, the instrumentation and data sciences to help communities to respond to the climate emergency.

Knowing science to be essential but not enough, the Observatory has collaboratories working in climate policy and practice that connect the scientific work of its laboratories to the needs of society.

Link: https://www.observatory.ph/