Climate data and information demand for real-world designs, operations, and decision making continue to expand. Understanding and meeting these needs requires robust partnerships between researchers, engineers, planners, resource managers, corporations, decision makers, and communities. In this session we invite presentations on assessing and meeting climate information and socio-economic needs to support equitable and inclusive engineering planning, design, operations, and decision making for a wide variety of applications. We hope to build a session that discusses these needs in addition to potential solutions towards fulfilling them(e.g., revised manuals of practice, updated engineering standards, necessary data resources, and new design and analysis methods and strategies that make our engineering and scientific practices effective for all members of our society). We welcome abstracts that highlight climate information needs for infrastructure and strategies that accelerate equitable and inclusive designs and practices for historically underserved and socially vulnerable communities.

