Toronto Climate Observatory

The Toronto Climate Observatory (TCO) is an emerging interdisciplinary initiative hosted at the University of Toronto. Our mission is to reimagine how communities around the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) understand and adapt to the impacts of climate change, and support place-based, plural, and just climate action. Through partnerships with scholars, the government and civil society, we are working to develop the next generation of climate informatics. We draw inspiration and methods from climate modeling, human centered design, Science and Technology Studies (STS), Indigenous scholarship, oral history, citizen science, and art/science collaboration. Though our focus in on the Toronto area, our work spans many geographies and seeks to bring those lessons home wherever possible. We are a new and expanding community of researchers from many areas and career stages. We are currently looking to expand our partnerships with other climate change scholars working in the GTA, as well as governments, community organizations, artists, and academic researchers so please get in touch if you’d like to learn more.