Committed to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a global cultural agency has come out with the idea of Climate Scout to create awareness about the pressing challenges of protecting and enhancing key environmental resources and addressing climate change in the Sultanate of Oman.
The solutions being offered by the cultural agency CRTKL are mainly in the areas of architecture, planning and design that call for balanced social, economic and environmental sustainability.
The idea of the move is to inform about the radical solutions to Oman’s most pressing challenges in the environment sector by involving Climate Scout, a new and first-of-its-kind, open-source platform that helps users design buildings that uniquely respond to a site by providing climate-specific design advice at the building scale.
It pairs the Köppen-Geiger climate classification and building design strategies from Architecture 2030’s Palette with Climate Scout and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas for 2022.
Wladimir Köppen, a German botanist and climatologist, first floated the climate classification that categorised climate zones throughout the world based on local vegetation. The Climate classification, however, has been enhanced and modified several times since it was first published.
The Climate Scout aims to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Oman through the means that are based on broader goals like conserving and enhancing environmental resources and addressing climate change issues.
It calls for efficient use of natural resources, adoption of sustainable patterns of development to ensure minimal involvement of travel and reliance on vehicles.
It is also part of supporting high levels of economic growth in a way that can benefit all, building on the strengths of each region.
