Climatools research programme (Climatools)

Climatools research programme is run by the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) on behalf of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. The programme will deliver eight different tools that assist decision makers mainly at the local and regional levels in adapting our society to the consequences of climate change. The focus of the programme is principally on the areas health, habitation and infrastructure as well as tourism and outdoor life. The tools are developed in close interaction with stakeholders, mainly officers in municipalities, and cover aspects such as ethics, economics and medicine with focus on handling uncertainties by using scenarios. They can be used in on-going planning processes such as comprehensive and detailed planning and risk and vulnerability assessments. The tools assist in dealing with matters such as how to calculate the costs of adaptation measures and the resulting revenues, how we deal with conflicting objectives, and how we can highlight ethical issues.