National Climate Research Portal - The Netherlands

Joint website of the Dutch Climate changes Spatial Planning Programme and the Knowledge for Climate Research Programme.

• The Climate changes Spatial Planning Programme enhances joint-learning between communities and people in practice within spatial planning, with the themes climate scenarios, mitigation, adaptation Research Programme, which has the aim to improve , integration and communication;
• The Knowledge for Climate Research Programme develops knowledge and services, focusing on eight Hotspots, enabling the climate proofing of the Netherlands.

The website also provides access to the Decision Support Tools Research Programme, which has the aim to improve tools for design and evaluation of adaptation strategies with a special focus on spatial planning and cross cutting issues, and with the following three core elements:

• tools for formulation of the adaptation task, based on climate scenarios and economic development;
• tools for development and visualization of adaptation strategies in general and in particular related to hotspots and case study areas of KvK;
• evaluation and monitoring tools for assessing adaptation strategies in terms of various indicators such as costs and benefits, side effects, equity issues, efficiency and temporal and spatial scales.

In addition, the website also provides access to the Delta Programme a National programme, aimed at preparing and elaborating measures to safeguard the Dutch delta against high water and a sufficient supply of fresh water in the long-term, while ensuring that the Netherlands also remains an attractive country in which to live, work and invest.