This micro-credential explores how narrative-based climate storylines can support community-centred climate risk assessment, decision-making under uncertainty, and locally grounded adaptation planning.

Drawing on participatory approaches, indigenous and local knowledge systems, and climate risk research, the course introduces storylines as practical tools for making climate uncertainty more understandable and useful. Rather than treating climate risk only as a technical modelling problem, narrative approaches help participants connect scientific information with lived experience, local priorities and real adaptation decisions.

Climate storylines are not simple predictions or fixed scenarios. They are co-created learning tools that bring together community members, practitioners, researchers and decision-makers to:

• share lived experiences of climate risks;

• build a shared understanding of hazards, vulnerabilities, drivers and response options;

• explore plausible climate futures within local ecological, cultural and institutional contexts;

• connect scientific evidence with local and experiential knowledge;

• identify adaptation pathways that reflect community priorities and practical realities.

By engaging with this micro-credential, participants will learn how narrative and participatory methods can strengthen climate resilience. They will also begin developing a climate storyline concept for a community, institution or region relevant to their own work.

As you work through this micro-credential on narrative-based approaches to climate risk and adaptation, please read the key readings below to deepen your understanding of how storylines support decision-making under uncertainty

Click below to access Part 1, 2 & 3 of the Self-paced study Units.