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DownScaling CLImate imPACTs and decarbonisation pathways in EU islands, and enhancing socioeconomic and non-market evaluation of Climate Change for Europe, for 2050 and beyond.

Project description

The climate change challenges on Europe’s islands

European islands are on the frontlines of climate change. Their vulnerability to global warming cannot be overstated. However, the coarse spatial resolution of available projections and the deficient economic models have hindered policymakers’ ability to implement effective measures. The EU-funded SOCLIMPACT project will address this critical gap. By modelling downscaled climate change effects and their socioeconomic impacts, it aims to provide accurate information to policymakers, practitioners and stakeholders. The project will enhance economic valuation of climate impacts, improve economic modelling of impact chains, and facilitate climate-related policy decision-making for Blue Growth. With SOCLIMPACT, European islands will have the tools they need to build resilience and chart a sustainable path for the future.

Objective

The warming of the climate system is unequivocal and continued emission of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes. Islands are particularly vulnerable to Climate Change (CC) consequences but the coarse spatial resolution of available projections makes it difficult to derive valid statements for islands. Moreover, science-based information about the economic impacts of CC in marine and maritime sectors is scarce, and current economic models lack of solid non-market assesment. Policy makers must have accurate information about likely impact chains and about the costs and benefits of possible strategies to implement efficient measures. SOCLIMPACT aims at modelling downscaled CC effects and their socioeconomic impacts in European islands for 2030–2100, in the context of the EU Blue Economy sectors, and assess corresponding decarbonisation and adaptation pathways, complementing current available projections for Europe, and nourishing actual economic models with non-market assessment, by:
• Developing a thorough understanding on how CC will impact the EU islands located in different regions of the world.
• Contributing to the improvement of the economic valuation of climate impacts by adopting revealed and stated preference methods.
• Increasing the effectiveness of the economic modelling of climate impact chains, through the implementation of an integrated methodological framework (GINFORS, GEM-E3 and non-market indicators).
• Facilitating climate-related policy decision making for Blue Growth, by ranking and mapping the more appropriate mitigation and adaptation strategies.
• Delivering accurate information to policy makers, practitioners and other relevant stakeholders.
SOCLIMPACT addresses completely this Work Programme providing advances in the economic valuation of climate-induced impacts, and in climate and economic models, allowing downscaled projections of complex impact chains, and facilitating the resilience capacity of these vulnerable lands.

Call for proposal

H2020-SC5-2016-2017

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Sub call

H2020-SC5-2017-OneStageB

Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
Net EU contribution
€ 742 435,01
Address
C/ Juan de Quesada 30
35001 Las Palmas De Gran Canaria
Spain

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Region
Canarias Canarias Gran Canaria
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost
€ 742 435,01

Participants (26)