A climate service is the provision of climate information to help end-users make climate smart decisions. The main objective of the I-CISK project is to develop next-generation Climate Services (CS) that follow a social and behaviourally informed approach for co-producing CS that meet the climate information needs of citizens, decision makers and stakeholders at the spatial and temporal scale relevant to them. I-CISK takes an action research approach to fast-track research to impacts by co-developing a framework for human centred climate services in and with the users of seven Living Labs in Europe and Africa. Each living lab is located in a climate change hotspot with specific geographical and climatic settings, and with a focus on key socio-economic sectors.
The LOCALISED project closes the information gap between national-level decarbonization plans and the local needs for planning and implementation of energy transition and climate adaptation. To do so, it is creating user-friendly tools allowing local authorities, citizens and businesses to speed up their planning actions and business models towards deep decarbonisation. To successfully carry such an approach, the project pulls together a multidisciplinary consortium including experienced institutions in the science of multi-sectoral energy transition, economic analysis, city adaptation and climate impacts, policy consultants and citizen engagement and communication experts.
The WILIAM (“Within limits”) Integrated Assessment Model (IAM), developed in the scope of LOCOMOTION, is a multi-regional model consisting of nine world regions, one of which is the EU-27 (at country level). WILIAM started to run in 2005 and runs until 2100 and forms the basis of the model used in RethinkAction. WILIAM model is structured in eight integrated modules of earth and human systems: (1) demography, (2) society, (3) economy, (4) finance, (5) energy, (6) materials, (7) land and water, and (8) climate. This structure allows for flexibly testing, improving and expanding each module without impairing the robustness of the models as a whole. In RethinkAction, models represent local case studies. They are the main instruments to simulate scenarios with the so-called Land-use based Adaptation and Mitigation Solutions (LAMS). The simulations help understand which types of policies will increase the chances to mitigate and adapt to climate change effects, taking into account the several trade-offs of applying policies in one specific sector and the effects on the other sectors.
REACHOUT is a European Commission funded research and innovation project to advance user-oriented climate services to support the implementation of the Green Deal. Therefore, research partners, climate service providers and city stakeholders are co-developing a coherent set of services for seven city hubs across the EU. **Triple A-Toolkit: analyse, ambitions and actions** These services support cities to analyse hazard, exposure and vulnerability to climate change, formulate ambitions for Climate Resilient Urban Development, and identify, evaluate and select adaptation actions for implementations. This so-called Triple-A toolkit builds upon and utilises existing tools and services. To ensure sustainability beyond the lifetime of the project, it cooperates with existing climate service platforms and develops business models for implementation of the services from the start.
REGILIENCE is committed to supporting the European Green Deal and the EU Mission “Adaptation to Climate Change” by fostering the adoption of regional climate resilience development pathways. The project develops, compiles, shares and promotes tools and scientific knowledge to support European regions in identifying and addressing their climate-related risks. The project works closely with sister projects, such as ARSINOE, IMPETUS and TransformAr to enhance the capacity of 7 focus regions to tackle the unavoidable impacts of climate change.
The overall concept of I-CHANGE is based on the idea that citizens and the civil society have a central role in the definition of environmental protection and climate action and that their direct involvement is essential to drive a true shift and promotion of behavioural changes towards more sustainable patterns. The project addresses the environment and climate challenges from two perspectives: * Empowerment through knowledge acquired through hands-on participation in the monitoring and assessment; * Understanding the role and the impact of individual choices (behaviour, lifestyle and consumption) in the daily life and its consequences on the environment;
