Impacts and Risks from High-End Scenarios: Strategies for Innovative Solutions (IMPRESSIONS)

Description:

IMPRESSIONS focused on five multi-sectoral case studies at global, European and regional/local scales to quantify and explain the consequences of high-end climate scenarios for decision-makers and society. IMPRESSIONS developed and applied a novel participatory methodology that explicitly dealt with uncertainties and strong non-linear changes focused on high-end climate change, but also included intermediate warming levels. Major outcomes of IMPRESSIONS include: (i) the development of an effective knowledge exchange mechanisms to ensure mutual learning and enhanced decision-maker capacity to take up the project’s recommendations; and, (ii) a knowledge network and information hub that helps to embed the project’s results in current and future adaptation and mitigation practices and fulfils a key role in the sharing and dissemination of data, information, knowledge and empirical evidence to improve decision-making capacity for dealing with high-end scenarios.

Another project outcome is the IMPRESSIONS Integrated Assessment Platform (IAP2), an extension of the CLIMSAVE Integrated Assessment Platform (IAP1), which is a unique user-friendly, interactive web-based tool that enables European stakeholders to explore the complex multi-sectoral issues surrounding impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate and socio-economic change across Europe within the agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, water, coastal and urban sectors. 

 

 

Project information

Lead

University of Oxford

Partners

• Fundacao da Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal • Stiftelsen the Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden • Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands • Danish Meteorological Institute, Denmark • Finnish Environment Institute, Finland • University of Edinburgh, UK • Dutch Research Institute For Transitions BV, The Netherlands • Cranfield University, UK • Jill Jäger, Austria • Scuola Superiore di Studi universitari e di perfezionamento Sant'Anna, Italy • Prospex bvba, Belgium • Pensoft Publishers Ltd, Bulgaria • Fundatia Pentru Tehnologia Informatiei Aplicata in Mediu, Agricultura si Schimbari Globale, Romania • University of Kassel, Germany • David Tàbara, Spain • Central European University, Hungary • University of Paris 1 La Sorbone, France • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK • Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany • Iodine SPRL, Belgium • Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy • University of Salzburg, Austria

Source of funding

European Union FP7