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Ongoing activities in Europe related to
climate impacts and adaptation projects
Rob Swart
IS-ENES General Assembly, Toulouse
28-30 January 2013

Adaptation policy
developments
• Many EU countries have daptation strategy
• Climate-Adapt - European adaptation information platform hosted
by the EEA since March 2012
• EEA pan-European impact assessment published in November
2012 – based on JRC (incl. PESETA1&2 projects) and other
input
• EU Adaptation Strategy to be released March 2013
• EEA/CIRCLE2 workshop on national climate
(impacts/adaptation) platforms planned for June 2013
• Relevance for IS-ENES: users/stakeholders

http://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/
Climate data on
“Observations
and scenarios”
page
372 research
and knowledge
projects in
database (FP7,
Interreg, other)
CLIMATE-

Selected running FP7 ENV projects
• IMPACTS2C – impacts 2 degrees climate (lead CSC)
• EUPORIAS - European Provision Of Regional Impacts Assessments
on Seasonal and decadal timescales (lead UK MetOffice)
• ACQWA - Assessing Climate Impacts on the Quantity and quality of
WAter (lead University of Geneva)
• organized Workshop on Science and Data Gaps in [30] EU
Water-Related Projects in 2011
• BASE – Bottom-up climate Adaptation Strategies for Europe (lead
University of Aarhus )
• ToPDAd - Tool-supported Policy-Development for regional
Adaptation (lead VTT)
• CLIMRUN – Local Climate Informations to Respond to Users Needs
(lead ENEA)
• ECLISE – Enabling CLimate Information Services for Europe (lead
KNMI)
Relevance for IS-ENES: Users and
platform coordination

KEY OBJECTIVES
• To develop an impact prediction system (2-3 prototypes) of ‘end-to end’
climate-to-impacts-to-decision-making services operating on the Seasonal
and Decadal (S2D) timescales.
• To assess and document key knowledge gaps, vulnerabilities and needs of
important sectors (e.g. Water, Energy, Transport, Food security, Health, etc.).
• To develop a set of tools tailored to the needs of stakeholders for calibrating,
downscaling, and modelling sector-specific impacts on S2D timescales.
• To develop a knowledge-sharing protocol necessary to promote the use of
these technologies.
• To assess the current marketability of S2D climate services in Europe

• Stakeholders’ focus and user engagement
• Promote adoption through demonstration
• Final outcome: a few (2 or 3) fully operational end-toend
climate services and their documentation
• The prototypes will be identified based on:
» Demonstrated skill in impact predictions
» An engaged stakeholder
» A portfolio of relevant decisions

Selected planned FP7 projects
• SPACE-programme
• Access to Climate Data and Climate Impact Indicator
Toolbox (for GMES)
• ENV-programme
• Impacts of higher-end scenarios (global average
warming > 2 °C with respect to pre-industrial level)
• Atmospheric processes, eco-systems and climate
change
• Land cover and land-use change and climate change
mitigation
• ......
• Relevance for IS-ENES: Platform
coordination/users

CIRCLE2 ERA-NET national programmes
on Impacts, vulnerability and adaptation
http://infobase.circle-era.eu/

• 4 Working Groups
JPI Climate
• WG1 Seasonal and decadal predictions
• WG2 Climate Services
• WG3 Societal transformations
• WG4 Decision-support methods and tools
• Launch 7 November 2012 in Brussels; CSA 1/1/2013
• 2 nd scoping meeting 1 st call, Paris, 20-22 February
2013
• Collaboration with other JPIs
• Urban Europe; Water Challenges; Food, Agriculture and
Climate Change; Oceans; Cultural Heritage
• Relevance for IS-ENES: potential
cofunding/coordination
http://www.jpi-climate.eu/

JPI CLIMATE Countries
Member Countries: 12 + EC
Observer Countries: 3
Observer Institutions: 4
(CIRCLE2, EEA, ECRA, NordForsk)
Norway
Sweden
Finnland
Estonia
Europe – Countries
Russia
Latvia
Denmark
Lithuania
Ireland
Belarus
Great Britain
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
Germany
Poland
Czech
Republic
Slovakia
Moldova
Ukraine
Portugal
Spain
France
Switzer/
land
Italy
Austria
Slovenia
Croatia Bosnia/
Herzegovina
Hungary
Romania
Serbia
Bulgaria
Montenegro
Mace-
donia
Albania
Turkey
Greece
Malta

INTERREG PROJECTS
• Some dozens of projects addressing regional
climate change impacts and adaptation
• Involves practitioners, policy makers, scientific
experts at the regional scale (transnational)
• Some clustered, e.g. SIC adapt! NWE Strategic
Initiatives Cluster – Adaptation to the spatial
impacts of climate change
• Relevance for IS-ENES: large group of potential
stakeholders/users

CLIMATE-KIC
• Climate-KIC drives innovation in climate change through
creative partnerships between business, academia and
public entities
• Theme “Managing climate drivers” - assessing and
forecasting extreme climates to develop mitigation and
adaptive solutions
• Climate impacts related projects
• E3P Extreme Events for Energy Providers (lead CEA)
• OASIS Open access catastrophe modelling (lead Imperial
College)
• CIES Climate Impact Expert System (lead PIK)
• Adaptation Services Platform
• Relevance for IS-ENES: users, joint development of IT

ISI-MIP
• ISI-MIP is the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison
Project
• To provide fast-track outcomes for the IPCC’s AR5
• The impacts communities answer to CMIP as a longer-term
coordinated impact assessment effort, driven by the entire
impact community, building on WaterMIP and AgMIP
• A community-driven modelling effort with the goal of providing
cross-sectoral global impact assessments
• Based on the newly developed climate [Representative
Concentration Pathways (RCPs)] and socio-economic [Shared
Socio-Economic Pathways (SSPs)] scenarios
• Coordinated by PIK with support from IIASA, backing from the
IPCC Working Groups II and III and funded by Germany until
August 2013
• Relevance for IS-ENES: users
http://www.isi-mip.org/

CLIMATE IMPACTS WORLD
CONFERENCE
• To be held in Potsdam, 27-30 May 2013
• To develop a new vision for climate impacts
research by laying the foundations for regular,
community-driven syntheses of climate change
impact analyses
• Visioning document “Climate Impacts Research: A
Vision for the Next Decade“
• Includes modelling agenda side event (ISI-MIP
follow-up)
http://www.climate-impacts-2013.org/

European Climate Change Adaptation conference
• To be held in Hamburg, 18-20 March 2013
• Conference theme: integrating climate into action
• Brings together scientists and practitioners working
on adaptation to the impacts of climate change
• Co-sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of
Education and Research (BMBF), the European
Commission, the City of Hamburg and the
University of Hamburg
• An initiative of four EU research projects:
RESPONSES, CLIMSAVE, MEDIATION and
ClimateCost.
http://eccaconf.eu/index.php/page/ECCA

IS-ENES1 workshop Climate Impacts
Portal
Climate data for impact studies: ways forward -
Climate Impact Portal Development Workshop
11-12 Feruary 2013, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Day 1: Open workshop climate data access: ways
forward
• Review of the current status of climate data access for impacts
(including climate services initiatives)
• Challenges in tailored data for impacts and responding to user
needs (with practical Use Cases)
• The IS-ENES experience: the climate4impact web portal prototype
and its first evaluation
• Ways to go forward: upcoming activities

IS-ENES1 workshop Climate Impacts
Portal Climate data for impact studies: ways forward -
Climate Impact Portal Development Workshop
11-12 Feruary 2013, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Day 2: IS-ENES workshop climate4impact.eu
development
ISENES JRA5 / ISENES2 NA4-JRA3
• Review user needs and portal evaluation
• Prioritize development activities for IS-ENES-2
• The role of Use Case development for IS-ENES-2
• Workplan IS-ENES-2