CMCC — Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici

CLIMAAX – CLIMAte risk and vulnerability Assessment framework and toolboX

CLIMAAX responds to the call HORIZON-MISS-2021-CLIMA-02-01 by providing financial, analytical and practical support to European regions, allowing an improvement of regional climate and emergency risk management plans. It is designed to significantly contribute to the harmonization and consolidation of the practice of climate risk assessment, leaving a substantial legacy for upcoming European initiatives.

General Aims

The main objective of CLIMAAX is to support the implementation of the EU Adaptation Strategy and the HE Mission Adaptation first objective: preparing and planning for climate resilience. CLIMAAX will co-design a harmonized methodological framework to assess the climate change risks and impacts at the regional scale across Europe. This framework will be supported by an operational multi-risk assessment methodological framework and supporting Toolbox to assist regions and communities in better understanding, preparing for and managing climate risks.  The framework and Toolbox will be implemented in >50 EU Regions/Cities/Communities allowing the demonstration and beta testing of the climate risk and vulnerability assessment framework Toolbox, the refinement of the assessment tools, and the enhancement of the adaptive capacity of European regions and communities to reduce their vulnerability to climate change.

CMCC role 

CMCC will contribute to setup a common framework for inclusive and harmonised climate risk assessment at local and regional level, elaborated through consultation, dialogs, review and collaboration with a range of user & expert organizations and networks with a shared interest in climate risk assessment and knowledge (climate, adaptation & resilience) services. CMCC will also take the lead in implementing a communication and dissemination strategy to maximise the project visibility and outreach of the results of the project. 

Activities

CLIMAAX is structured in 9 WPs:

  1. Framework for local and regional climate risk assessment
  2. Codesign of the supporting toolbox
  3. Regional CRA prototypes and operationalisation 
  4. Open Call and selection of regions and communities
  5. Implementation of the methodological framework and toolbox in >50 region/communities
  6. Support to implementation and upgrade of framework and tools
  7. Synthesis and scaling up
  8. Communication and outreach
  9. Project and FSTP Management

Project results, including deliverables and journal articles, are available on Zenodo Expected results The project will co-design a harmonised methodological framework to assess the climate change risks and impacts at the regional scale across Europe which will be implemented in more than 50 EU Regions/Cities/Communities.

Partners 

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Barcelona (UPC), Spain Centro Internazionale di Monitoraggio Ambientale (CIMA), Italy  Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland  Association Européenne des Agences de Développement (EURADA), Belgium Research Gemeinnützige GMBH (ADELPHI), Germany  FundingBox accelerator sp. Z o. o. (FBA), Poland  Stichting VU (VU-IVM), The Netherlands  Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui cambiamenti climatici (CMCC), Italy European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF), United Kingdom  Mesto Zilina (ZILINA), Slovakia  KAJO SRO (KAJO), Slovakia Camara Municipal de Setubal (SETUBAL), Portugal  Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Territorio da Universidade de Lisboa (IGOT), Portugal  Department d’Interior – Generalitat de Catalunya (INTC), Spain  Internationales Institute fuer Angewandte Systemanalyse (IIASA), Austria  Ministry of Interior of Finland (MoIFI), Finland  Latvija Vides, Geologijas un Meteorologijas Centrs Sia (LVGMC), Latvia  Emergency Service Academy Finland (ESAF), Finland