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
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Participants (28)
14473 Potsdam
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5008 Bergen
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0313 Oslo
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601 76 Norrkoeping
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1049 Brussels
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00196 Roma
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75794 Paris
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94165 Saint Mande Cedex
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8010 Graz
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8010 Graz
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2361 Laxenburg
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2100 Kobenhavn
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3731 GA De Bilt
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6708 PB Wageningen
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73132 Chania
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OX2 7SN Oxford
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1015 Lausanne
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SO17 1BJ Southampton
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OX2 0ES Oxford, Oxfordshire
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EX1 3PB Exeter
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20392 Male
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1212 Dhaka
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10120 Colombo
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6717 LZ Ede Gld
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1211 Geneve
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1206 Dhaka
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13184 Niamey
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10178 Berlin
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