  This first workshop on visualization for climate action and sustainability
aims to explore and consolidate the role of data visualization in accelerating
action towards addressing the current environmental crisis. Given the urgency
and impact of the environmental crisis, we ask how our skills, research
methods, and innovations can help by empowering people and organizations. We
believe visualization holds an enormous power to aid understanding, decision
making, communication, discussion, participation, education, and exploration of
complex topics around climate action and sustainability. Hence, this workshop
invites submissions and discussion around these topics with the goal of
establishing a visible and actionable link between these fields and their
respective stakeholders. The workshop solicits work-in-progress and research
papers as well as pictorials and interactive demos from the whole range of
visualization research (dashboards, interactive spaces, scientific
visualization, storytelling, visual analytics, explainability etc.), within the
context of environmentalism (climate science, sustainability, energy, circular
economy, biodiversity, etc.) and across a range of scenarios from public
awareness and understanding, visual analysis, expert decision making, science
communication, personal decision making etc. After presentations of
submissions, the workshop will feature dedicated discussion groups around data
driven interactive experiences for the public, and tools for personal and
professional decision making.
