IMPACT2C
Quantifying projected impacts under 2°C warming
Informazioni Generali
- Coordinatore:
- HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM BERLIN FUR MATERIALIEN UND ENERGIE GMBH (HZB) (Germania)
- Responsabile:
- RUTI PAOLO MICHELE - SSPT-MET-CLIM (CASACCIA)
- Ruolo ENEA:
- PARTNER
- Sito WEB:
- http://www.hzg.de/mw/impact2c/
Programmi Europei
- Programma:
- Settimo Programma Quadro R&ST (2007-2013) -> AMBIENTE (2007-2013) (IP - Progetto Integrato)
Descrizione e Attività
Descrizione Generale
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 worlds 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.
Attività svolta da ENEA
L'ENEA partecipa a diverse attività di modellistica climatica e di valutazione degli impatti nel settore energetico, idrologico e di produzione alimentare. Inoltre l'ENEA coordina il Workpackage "Impact, vulnerability and adaptation in most vulnerable regions: African case study".
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