December 15, 2023・4 min read

BLOG – TomorrowNow Connects With Key Food Systems Stakeholders at COP28 & Hosts Side Event to Celebrate Local Partnerships

TomorrowNow engages a global community at COP28 and hosts a side event to celebrate local partnerships in collaboration with Kenya’s Homa Bay County.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – The TomorrowNow team was in Dubai, UAE, for the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 to push a critical agenda to convene a global community (innovators, funders, governments) around our collective 2023 northstar – to empower 100 million farmers with weather intelligence.

We connected with so many changemakers within the climate adaptation space and learnt from those who were representing several farmer facing organizations, public institutions and private sector firms about how improved access to quality weather data will help them better serve their users & communities across the world.

A key takeaway from the various sessions we attended was about the stakeholder consensus that we need to unlock diverse sources of funding from the hydromet value chain, including integration of private sector-led early warning solutions, into national climate adaptation frameworks.

TomorrowNow Hosts Side Event to Celebrate Local Partnership in Kenya

As part of our commitment to ensure that next gen weather & climate solutions benefit the last mile, TomorrowNow.org in partnership with the County Government Of Homa Bay hosted a side event to celebrate our county-level partnerships that are empowering farmers to adapt to climate change using weather intelligence.

Homa Bay County Governor Gladys Wanga joined us as a panelist in celebrating our current partnership that’s going to help their 300k+ smallholder farmers access localized weather intelligence.

The Governor acknowledged the important role that TomorrowNow and partners are playing by providing improved weather data in the form of Digital Climate Advisory Services (DCAS) to support the recently-launched Homa Bay Climate Information Services Center in Kenya.

“As the County Government of Homa Bay, we are keen to leverage TomorrowNow’s weather and climate tech in ensuring that our local agronomy and fishing industries adapt to the worsening effects of climate change”

– HE Gladys Wanga, Homa Bay County Governor

Beyond #COP28, we are staying focused on our north star goal to unlock and sustain the transformative potential of next-generation weather intelligence for 100 million people in Africa at risk of climate change and create $7billion+ in community-level value.

We recognize the need for new partnership models where the public, private, academic and NGO sectors come together to support the localization of new innovations, inclusive access AND operational scale.

Fortunately, we have an opportunity to shift from a focus on crisis to hope, progress and prosperity where climate adaptation financing & philanthropy can be used to catalyze new partnerships leading to breakthrough solutions that can make a long-term difference to the lives of millions of farmers everywhere.

In 2023, we announced our breakthrough partnership and additional grant funding that’s going to further unlock and sustain the transformative potential of next-generation weather and climate data services across Africa.

We will not be able to bring change alone, so we welcome you to JOIN US!

Georgina Campbell Flatter

Georgina is the co-founder and Executive Director of TomorrowNow.org - a global non profit leveraging transformative philanthropy to connect next generation weather and climate technologies with communities in need. Prior to TomorrowNow.org, Georgina spent a decade at MIT where she was a senior lecturer and led global initiatives designed to bridge technology and social impact. Georgina has worked on many innovation initiatives for organisations including: the MIT Legatum Center, MIT REAP, the XPRIZE Foundation, the World Bank, USA Dept of Energy, MIT, Harvard and Oxford University. Georgina is mother of two, passionate about empowering the next generation of STEM leaders, with a focus on women and youth, and is an active member of her local community. She acts as trustee and advisory board member for several charities (The Darwin Centre, Mama Foundation, FOSPs) and is a local Parish Councillor. She read Material Science at Trinity College Oxford and Technology and Policy at MIT.