What are climate services for? Social practices, adaptation, and the dynamics of demand

Climate services are often positioned as tools to enhance resilience, guide policy, and enable decision-making in the face of climate variability. However, these framings rarely interrogate the social underpinnings of what climate services are for, how their demand arises, and in what ways they become embedded in the routines of life, governance, and planning. Taking inspiration from social practice theory, this article reconceptualizes climate services as evolving components within bundles of social practices and charts out a number of suggestions to rethink climate service useability and implementation. In doing so, it raises foundational questions about the meaning, purpose, and evolution of climate service demand, aiming to reframe their role within adaptation governance.