Objective
Political discussions on the European goal to limit global warming to 2°C demands that discussions are informed by the best available science on projected impacts and possible benefits. IMPACT2C enhances knowledge, quantifies climate change impacts, and adopts a clear and logical structure, with climate and impacts modelling, vulnerabilities, risks and economic costs, as well as potential responses, within a pan-European sector based analysis. IMPACT2C utilises a range of models within a multi-disciplinary international expert team and assesses effects on water, energy, infrastructure, coasts, tourism, forestry, agriculture, ecosystems services, and health and air quality-climate interactions. IMPACT2C introduces key innovations. First, harmonised socio-economic assumptions/scenarios will be used, to ensure that both individual and cross-sector assessments are aligned to the 2°C (1.5°C) scenario for both impacts and adaptation, e.g. in relation to land-use pressures between agriculture and forestry. Second, it has a core theme of uncertainty, and will develop a methodological framework integrating the uncertainties within and across the different sectors, in a consistent way. In so doing, analysis of adaptation responses under uncertainty will be enhanced. Finally, a cross-sectoral perspective is adopted to complement the sector analysis. A number of case studies will be developed for particularly vulnerable areas, subject to multiple impacts (e.g. the Mediterranean), with the focus being on cross-sectoral interactions (e.g. land use competition) and cross-cutting themes (e.g. cities). The project also assesses climate change impacts in some of the world’s most vulnerable regions: Bangladesh, Africa (Nile and Niger basins), and the Maldives. IMPACT2C integrates and synthesises project findings suitable for awareness raising and are readily communicable to a wide audience, and relevant for policy negotiations.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-ENV-2011
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
21502 Geesthacht
Germany
Participants (28)
14473 Potsdam
5008 Bergen
0313 Oslo
601 76 Norrkoeping
1049 Brussels
00196 Roma
75794 Paris
94165 Saint Mande Cedex
8010 Graz
8010 Graz
2361 Laxenburg
2100 Kobenhavn
3731 GA De Bilt
6708 PB Wageningen
731 00 Chania
OX2 7SN Oxford
1015 Lausanne
SO17 1BJ Southampton
OX2 7DL Oxford
EX1 3PB Exeter
20392 Male
1212 Dhaka
10120 Colombo
6717 LZ Ede Gld
1211 Geneve
1206 Dhaka
13184 Niamey
10178 Berlin