The SOCLIMPACT consortium involves 24 partners, many of them coming from 12 European islands and archipelagos:
- European Small States Islands: Cyprus and Malta;
- European islands: Baltic Islands, Balearic Islands, Siciliy, Sardinia, Corsica, Crete;
- European Outermost Regions: Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands and French West Indies.
They all have different key competences, including the study of climate change impacts, climate and economic modelling, social sciences, marine biodiversity, climate policies and the islands and of the outermost European regions.
From Climate Change projections to the design of adaptation options, SOCLIMPACT repasses the Impact-Vulnerability-Adaptation chains, improving the modelling tools, developing the interrelations between steps, adapting this framework to the case of islands, and improving its transfer to decision makers.
Funded by: European Commission (EASME) Horizon 2020 research and innovation program
General Aims
SOCLIMPACT aims at modelling downscaled CC effects and their socio-economic impacts in European islands for 2030–2100, in the context of four EU Blue Economy sectors (Coastal and Maritime Tourism, Aquaculture, Maritime Transport and Marine Energy), and assess corresponding decarbonisation and adaptation pathways, complementing current available projections for Europe, and nourishing actual economic models with non-market assessment.
CMCC role
Contributor to:
- WP2 Project Coordination Management
- WP3 Climate Change vulnerability assessment framework and complex impact chains
- WP4 Modelling Climate impacts in 11 EU islands’ case studies for 2030- 2100
- WP8 Communication and Dissemination. Raising social awareness and supporting decision making processes of policymakers and practitioners
Activities
- Develop a thorough understanding on how CC will impact the EU islands located in different regions of the world;
- Contribution to the improvement of the economic valuation of climate impacts by adopting revealed and stated preference methods;
- Increase of 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);
- Facilitate climate-related policy decision making for Blue Growth, by ranking and mapping the more appropriate mitigation and adaptation strategies;
- Deliver accurate information to policy makers, practitioners and other relevant stakeholders.
Expected results
SOCLIMPACT aims at allowing decision makers from all Small Island Member States and other EU islands and Outermost Regions, which are particularly vulnerable to Climate Change consequences, to get a sound knowledge about the possible climate induced impact chains, and a comprehensive evidence-based framework for research and policy. By using EU islands as living labs with a high replicability potential, SOCLIMPACT will provide stronger methodologies to better measure and asses the associated costs, benefits and risks of global Climate Change in other EU coastal regions.
Web site: http://soclimpact.org/
Partners
- Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPCG) – COORDINATOR
- Baltic Environmental Forum Deutschland EV
- Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l’Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile
- Osservatorio Turistico delle Isole Europee
- Buckinghamshire New University
- Kriti
- E3-Modelling IKE
- Université des Antilles
- Centro Tecnologico de Ciencias Marinas
- Gesellschaft fuer Wirtschaftliche Strukturforschung MBH
- National Observatory of Athens
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt Am Main
- Instituto Tecnologico de Canariassa
- Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- Universitat de Les Illes Balears
- ID – Associacao para a Investigacao e Desenvolvimento de Ciencias
- Anci Sardegna
- Aquabiotech Limited
- Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha
- Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
- Agencia Regional da Energia e Ambiente da Regiao Autonoma da Madeira
- Tourisme Territoires Transports Environnement Conseil
- The Cyprus Institute
- Interfusion Services Limited
- Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna