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Climate Portal Flanders Tools- IMPACT-tool

The IMPACT-tool is an interactive climate adaptation assessment platform developed by the Flemish Environment Agency (VMM) within the Klimaatportaal Vlaanderen. The tool visualises current and future climate change impacts across Flanders, including heat, drought, flooding, and sea-level rise, and shows their effects on people, buildings, agriculture, ecosystems, and infrastructure. Users can explore maps, indicators, graphs, and local vulnerability information at multiple spatial scales, including municipality, district, water body, and neighbourhood level. The platform is designed to support local climate adaptation planning, vulnerability assessment, reporting, and climate-resilient decision-making.

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What you can do with it

Input

  • Select a municipality, neighbourhood, statistical sector, water body or location in Flanders.
  • Explore current and future impacts of heat, drought, flooding, heavy rainfall, sea-level rise and storms.
  • Examine impacts on people, buildings, agriculture, ecosystems and infrastructure.
  • Compare maps, indicators, graphs and local vulnerability information.

Output

  • High-resolution climate-impact maps and visualisations.
  • Indicators and graphs at Flemish, municipal, neighbourhood, statistical-sector and water-body levels.
  • Information on climate impacts and local vulnerability.
  • Raster datasets at approximately 1 × 1 m or 100 × 100 m, depending on the theme.
  • Present and forward-looking climate-impact information.

Use it to

  • Understand current and future climate impacts across Flanders.
  • Identify vulnerable people, assets, ecosystems and locations.
  • Support local climate-risk and vulnerability assessments.
  • Inform municipal adaptation planning and reporting.
  • Provide evidence for climate-resilient spatial and infrastructure decisions.

Why is it relevant to climate adaptation

Provides highly localised climate-impact information for Flanders, allowing users to connect climate hazards with effects on people, buildings, agriculture, ecosystems and infrastructure. The availability of maps and indicators down to neighbourhood, statistical-sector and water-body levels makes it particularly useful for municipal planning and local vulnerability assessment. The tool supports the early stages of adaptation; identifying and prioritising measures is handled by the related PLAN and PROJECT tools.

Used in

  • Municipal and neighbourhood-level climate-impact assessment across Flanders.
  • Flemish local adaptation planning and reporting through Klimaatportaal Vlaanderen.
  • Analysis at municipality, statistical-sector, neighbourhood and water-body levels.
  • Assessment of impacts on people, buildings, agriculture, ecosystems and infrastructure.
  • Local evidence for planning related to heat, drought, flooding, heavy rainfall, sea-level rise and storms.

Metadata

User Group
National authoritiesSubnational authoritiesBusinesses/consultants
Geographic coverage
Countries:
Belgium
Spatial resolution

Rasterdata with rasters 1m x 1m or 100m x 100m.; Indicators (datatables and graphs) are derived from those maps on the level of region (Flanders), municipality, statistical sector or neighbourhoud, and water body.

Support of Adaptation Policy Cycle
Step 1: Preparing the Ground for Adaptation
Step 2: Assessing Climate Change Risks and Vulnerabilities
Adaptation sectors
AgricultureBiodiversityBuildings
Climate hazards
Heavy precipitation / extreme rainfallFloodingCoastal flooding / storm surge
Type of outputs
Maps and graphsDatasets and indicators
Temporality of data
PresentForward-looking
Language
Dutch
Accessibility and usability
Moderate
Data sources
Public datasets from external providersProject-generated or processed datasetsMixed sources
Tool validation use
Case-study validationExpert validation / reputable institutionUser testing / pilot testing

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