CLARA (Climate forecast enabled knowledge services) is a Horizon 2020 innovation action set to develop advanced climate services, by building upon the newly developed Copernicus Climate Change Services – seasonal forecasts and sectorial information systems. A portfolio of user co-designed and co-developed climate services have been designed to help to improve policy and decision makings in five priority sectors: disaster risk reduction, water resource management, agriculture and food (security), renewable energy sources, and public health.

CLARA (Climate forecast enabled knowledge services) develops a portfolio of user co-designed and co-developed climate services to help to improve climate adaptation policy and decision makings. The project 

• Facilitate development of new and enhancement of existing climate services by drawing upon the recent seasonal to decadal projections and projections developed under the Copernicus Climate Change Services (C3S) to improve policy and decision making in disaster risk reduction, water resource management, air pollution control, renewable energy and agriculture;
• Analyse and demonstrate the economic and social value unleashed by climate forecast enabled climate services and corroborate the ensuing direct and indirect benefits various end users and customers obtain from them in terms of reduced risk, more efficient resource management, and improved resilience to climate variability and change;
• Engage service developers, purveyors and end-users in mutually beneficial collaboration and partnerships for service co-design, co-development, co-assessment and co-delivery; 
• Contribute to advancing the European innovation, competitiveness and market performance for climate services, by designing and implementing innovative exploitation, business and market-oriented activities