{"id":72726,"date":"2026-06-23T20:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/?p=72726"},"modified":"2026-06-23T20:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:41:46","slug":"columna-francisca-cortes-solari-cuando-el-clima-cuesta-comprender-importa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/en\/columna-francisca-cortes-solari-cuando-el-clima-cuesta-comprender-importa\/","title":{"rendered":"[Francisca Cort\u00e9s Solari Column] When the Climate Costs, Understanding Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]”Our territories concentrate extraordinary natural and cultural wealth, but also high climate vulnerability. Strengthening our capacity to understand, dialogue, and act collectively is an essential part of any resilience strategy.”<\/p>\n

Chile loses, on average, nearly 4.5 billion dollars a year due to natural disasters: around 1.5% of its Gross Domestic Product, according to estimates by Clapes UC. Recurrent fires, water scarcity, ecosystem degradation, and the growing vulnerability of communities to increasingly extreme phenomena are the most undeniable evidence of the economic impact of the Triple Crisis. The figures help to grasp the scale of the problem, but they hide territories, people, and ways of life affected in dramatic and often permanent ways.<\/p>\n

Faced with this challenge, we usually think of more science, more innovation, or more funding. These are all necessary answers. However, there is a condition that often goes unnoticed: the capacity of our societies to understand what is happening.<\/p>\n

The available scientific evidence on climate change has never been so robust. However, transforming that knowledge into prevention, mitigation, and adaptation remains one of the great challenges of our time.<\/p>\n

At Filantrop\u00eda Cort\u00e9s Solari, we have learned that climate prevention and action require data, but also bridges. Between science and communities. Between global knowledge and local realities. Between those who research the problems and those who must make decisions to face them.<\/p>\n

That conviction has guided a large part of our work. From the Atacama Desert to Patagonia, we have promoted an Effective Conservation Model that integrates science, education, culture, and sustainable development. Because we know that evidence, by itself, does not transform realities: it needs to be shared, understood, and appropriated by people.<\/p>\n

It was precisely this reflection that gave rise to the Blue Economy Round Table 2025, within the framework of Monaco Ocean Week, which brought together scientists, communicators, and international leaders around a fundamental question: how do we guarantee that science is at the heart of decision-making? How do we accelerate the understanding of the climate problem to favor the actions of decision-makers in terms of prevention, mitigation, and adaptation?<\/p>\n

The answer pointed to a challenge as obvious as it is complex: strengthening the links between those who generate knowledge and those who disseminate it.<\/p>\n

From that reflection emerges the Climate Media Task Force, an initiative that will be presented this week at the Foro Internacional de Meteorolog\u00eda y Clima<\/a>, at the headquarters of the European Space Agency in Frascati, Italy.<\/p>\n

Its purpose is to facilitate access to rigorous scientific evidence and strengthen collaboration between the scientific community and those who have the responsibility to report on climate challenges. It is not about building new narratives, but about contributing to making scientific knowledge reach decision-makers, professionals of all kinds, and people who live the consequences of climate change in their daily lives more effectively, advancing towards efficient early warnings.<\/p>\n

International experience shows that the most effective responses to the triple crisis\u2014climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution\u2014are those capable of mobilizing knowledge, trust, and collaboration. Science, public institutions, the private sector, philanthropy, communities, and the media fulfill complementary and necessary roles.<\/p>\n

From the Global South, we know that this conversation is especially relevant. Our territories concentrate extraordinary natural and cultural wealth, but also high climate vulnerability. Strengthening our capacity to understand, dialogue, and act collectively is an essential part of any resilience strategy.<\/p>\n

The climate challenge demands resources, innovation, and political will. But also something deeper: the ability to build common understandings about the future we want to inhabit. And because the most important transformations begin when a society manages to understand what it is called upon to protect, this Climate Media Task Force seeks to strengthen the bond between science, information, and citizenship.<\/p>\n

By Francisca Cort\u00e9s Solari, Executive President of Filantrop\u00eda Cort\u00e9s Solari<\/p>\n

Source: La Tercera<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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