The report released by the UNDP explores the potential of Collective Intelligence (CI) initiatives in climate adaptation and mitigation. 

About CI 

• It is the enhanced capacity created when people work together, often with the help of technology, to mobilize a wider range of information, ideas, and insights. 
  • CI emerges when these contributions are combined to become more than the sum of their parts.

Potential of CI in Climate Action

• It can bridge: 
  • Data gap: Mobilizing citizens to generate real-time localized data, and brings together data sets to uncover new insight. 
  • Doing gap: Getting more people involved in taking climate action, and helping people monitor the follow through of institutions. 
  • Diversity gap: Bringing a wider range of people, including Indigenous communities and perspectives into climate processes and data collection.
• It can decrease: 
  • Distance Gap: CI initiatives foster a two-way exchange between scientists and local communities, enhancing scientific understanding and public knowledge, as well as creating mutual trust. 
  • Decision-making Gap: Closing gaps between opposing views and interests (like Climate vs. growth) to speed up required climate action.