Climate services for the North Adriatic coastal zone

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Climate change represents a significant challenge to coastal managers that very often have to deal with multiple types of climate-related hazards (e.g. sea-level rise, extreme weather and ocean events, changes in water quality parameters) that can affect different natural and human systems and sectors (e.g. health, tourism, agriculture, industry, energy).
The development of climate services tailored to coastal zone stakeholders’ and users’ needs is therefore essential to mainstream climate change adaptation in the realization of sustainable policies, plans and programs at the regional and local scale.

In a video, CMCC climate experts tell the experience of the integrated North Adriatic case study within the CLIM-RUN project while describing the development of climate products, including climate risk and adaptation products, based on coastal zone managers’ needs. More in detail, CMCC researchers described the integrated approach used, that is the following three components: the participative process aimed at understanding the needs and requests of the stakeholders; the climate information, providing forecasts and projections about climate variability and climate change; climate impacts and vulnerability information, integrating climate data and stakeholders’ requests in order to evaluate climate-related risks for several natural and human systems.

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