Climate_CRICES

Heat, drought and flooding as well as the impact on biodiversity are the most important phenomena detected across the Central European regions according to the recent reports of the IPCC. Huge quantities of environmental, water and meteorological data (even open data) both available within the public institutions and from unprecedented sources of data (e.g. earth observation data), are not being fully exploited for reliable climate change impact plans. To use the full potential to increase the knowledge of regional authorities and support the analysis and planning of climate mitigation and adaptation measures common classification criteria and standards are needed at trans-border level. An easy-to-use form and multilingual availability with a harmonised layout are further requirements.

This is why Climate_CRICES partners work together to define a common strategy with main topics to be investigated, to define criteria for using those data, to implement a data-driven dashboard, able to enhance the resilience to climate change effects and increase knowledge and management capability for projections.

Climate_CRICES aims at increasing the capacity of public authorities to manage projected climate change effects, focusing on the most important phenomena detected across the Central Europe regions according to the recent reports of the IPCC: heat and drought; shortage of water and flooding; impact on biodiversity.

The data dashboard will work during the project to produce analysis fed by data available in PPs own or additional regional/national platforms and integrating innovative sources of data meanwhile a landing page will assure a trans-border perspective and forecast.
The regional authorities of the participating pilot regions will be supported in increasing their knowledge and capability to manage climate adaptation plans by capacity building activities and the exploitation of data. Based on a large set of communication and cooperation activities of Climate_CRICES will serve as a template for climate adaptation management throughout Central Europe.

The available data on the environment and climate impacts that will be analysed and visualised using the Climate_CRICES dashboard, will provide more information for more accurate climate change projections for the regional rural and urban development plans. We expect that regional authorities will increase their knowledge and capability to manage climate adaptation plans thanks to capacity building activities and the exploitation of data.

IOER is responsible for the German pilot area of Eastern Saxony, that belongs to the catchment of the Lusatian Neisse River. Since this is a shared catchment with Poland and the Czech Republic, we will closely coordinate all activities with Wroclaw University (PL) and University of Usti (CZ) in order to achieve cross-border largest possible benefit. This includes, among others, joint stakeholder events and analyses.