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We are thrilled to present our first Special Issue of Climate Resilience and Sustainability. This launch issue highlights recent research undertaken as part of the Climate Science for Services Partnership (CSSP) Brazil project.

Climate Resilience and Sustainability is the Royal Meteorological Society's newest online-only journal, published by Wiley, providing a dedicated open-access home for articles in all areas of climate change.

The CSSP Brazil project is a joint research programme between the Met Office, Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA) and the National Centre for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN), as well as other key UK and Brazilian scientific institutes.

In Brazil, the diverse nature of the climate means multiple hazards pose a threat to public health, agriculture, infrastructure and the economy. Climate Resilience and Sustainability's special issue focuses on how the collaborative research of CSSP Brazil is continuing to develop the science required to build and improve essential climate services, nationally and internationally. We now have enhanced knowledge of the role of land use in carbon emissions and its potential to contribute to solutions and have developed fundamental new modelling capability to predict extreme weather and its consequences. This project has also provided direct attribution of the role of climate change in a range of extreme events and developed early warning services for severe impacts. Three types of extreme events have been the focus of the research: rainfall, wildfire and drought.

Papers in this Issue are evenly split between Brazil and UK lead authors. All represent collaborative science addressing climate risks in Brazil across sectors and timescales and advancing knowledge on managing it. The project has contributed both direct outputs and better ways of working, enhancing our climate resilience and sustainability.

Read the Special Issue here.

Articles include:

• How might a collapse in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation affect rainfall over tropical South America?
• Extreme rainfall and its impacts in the Brazilian Minas Gerais state in January 2020: Can we blame climate change?
• Understanding the role of land-use emissions in achieving the Brazilian Nationally Determined Contribution to mitigate climate change
• South American fires and their impacts on ecosystems increase with continued emissions

About the Journal

Climate Resilience and Sustainability is a forum for researchers and practitioners who are using the best weather and climate information available to propose policies and actions that are climate resilient and able to deliver sustainable outcomes. Contributions are particularly welcome from projects and programmes that bring together researchers with different backgrounds to understand complex systems, where decisions made to address one environmental or societal challenge can affect another.

As an open-access journal, supplemented with Impact Summaries written in plain language, Climate Resilience and Sustainability will make research available with a short turnaround time. This journal aims to help influence the public perception of and engagement with climate change and engage policymakers and practitioners across related industries.

You can read more about the journal's aims and scope on the journal's homepage.

The Co-Editors in Chief of this journal are a formidable female team consisting of Professor Vicky Pope and Dr Habiba Gitay and supported by two Deputy Editors – Professor Yinlong Xu and Professor Kathryn Monk. There is also a diverse Advisory and Editorial Board made up of esteemed international experts in Climate Science and Environmental Research. You can read more about the Board here.

Click here to find out more and submit an article.