To help communities boost their resilience to the impacts of climate change, people need access to information about measures that have been tried and the impacts such measures have had. This is a reason that tools such as the Climate Connectivity Hub and its underlying taxonomy were created. They aim to help make it easier to find such information, which is often scattered across many online sites. This, in turn, can help people build upon existing knowledge so that they can make good decisions and speed up efforts to implement effective actions.

The authors of this article argue that tools such as the Climate Connectivity Hub and its underpinning taxonomy increase the discoverability and interoperability of existing research. Such tools promote a shared understanding of different types and domains of knowledge and the applicability of these types of knowledge in policy, research and practice.

The authors highlight three objectives of the article:

• To show that useful taxonomies can emerge from projects supporting interoperability, discoverability and the identification of knowledge gaps.
• To visualize the domain expertise of different organizations and increase connectivity between projects.
• To show that a shared interpretation of language and terminology can add value to research, policy and practice.