Recommendations for Assessing and Increasing the Impact of Climate Services

D4.6 provides a cohesive assessment of the current state of the Climate Services (CS) market, consisting of insights gained from an eDelphi study with key CS market actors as well as an in-depth analysis of the relevant scientific publications on the topic of CS impact assessment and increase.
An updated, ranked, catalogue of best practices and malpractices was provided and summarised, along with
recommendations for increasing and assessing the impact of CS. A step-by-step process for assessing the impact of CS was introduced:
1. Define the evaluation purpose and scope
2. Develop an impact pathway as part of project design
3. Define a baseline
4. Select the appropriate evaluation methodology (qualitative or quantitative)
5. Account for attribution and confounding factors
6. Reflect on external validity and scalability