Climate Adaptation Services

Webportal development in the Netherlands

Hasse GoosenClimate Adaptation Services Foundation

Alterra/WUR

EEA meeting on national web portals, Kopenhagen 19 June 2013

Problem statement

• Local governments play a crucial role in adaptation

• Climate science and data does not reach local stakeholders

• There is a clear need for a webportal that bridges the gap between the climate science community and the spatial planning community

Limited policy relevant information for adaptationTool Organization Scope Primary maps Secondary maps Tertiary maps

Canadian Climate Change Scenarios Network Environment Canada Canada Yes No No

Caribbean Climate Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre Caribbean Yes Yes No

CI:grasp PIK Germany Emerging economies Yes Yes Limited

Climate Change Country Profiles UNDP Developing nations Yes No No

Climate Change in Australia CSIRO Australia Yes Yes No

Climate Change Knowledge Portal World bank Global Yes Yes Limited

Climate Service Center Helmholz-ZentrumsGeesthacht Germany Yes No No

CLIMATE-ADAPT European Commission EU nations Yes Yes No

Ilmasto-Opas Finnish Meteorological Institute Finland Yes No Limited

Klimatilpasning Task Force on Climate Change Adaptation Denmark Yes Yes No

KlimatilpasningNorge Ministry of Environment Norway Yes No No

RegionalerKlimaatlas Deutschland HelmholzGemeinschaft Germany Yes Yes No

Objective

Climate research

Adaptation in spatial

planning

Challenges

• Information is scattered: different institutions and projects have their own websites• To much science driven, limited inclusion of

end users• Maintenance: a number of project or program

based websites will disappear due to lack of funding

Recent developments

• We see new foundations emerge taking over from the knowledge subsidy programs: • Foundation Climate Adaptation Services • Delta Alliance • Water Buffer Foundation• Sustainable Delta Cities

• Possibly the establishment of an EU wide panel of end users to streamline portal development across EU (ES-ENESS2; CCLIP; Climate Adapt, ToPDAd, Base, Ramses, Euphorias, Specs, Eclise, Impact2C)

Existing websites in the Netherlands• Delta Portal (Delta programme website): for professionals

involved in the Delta Programme such as water managers, sector specialists

• Climate Adaptation Atlas (Knowledge for Climate programme): aimed at local/provincial planners and policy makers

• Platform Communication on Climate Change (KNMI, PBL, VU, ..): aims to provide information about climate scenario’s, climate policy

• Climate Wizard (KNMI): aimed at research community• Space for Climate (Climate Changes Spatial Planning

programme): aims at disclosure of the practical results of the CCSP programme, cases, tools and lessons learnt

• Knowledge for Climate website: for scientific community and for policy makers

Towards one central portal integrating existing webtools

Climate Adaptation Atlas

Guiding principles

Adaptation measure database

Image database

Climate Apps: urban heat, water availability and water safety

Tools

Best practices: cases

To provide a one stop shop for spatial information for climate change adaptation

To offer best practices, tools and services to support adaptation planning at the local/district level

Organisation

• Definition study commissioned by:

- Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment

- Knowledge for Climate (KfC programme)

• Lead: Climate Adaptation Services Foundation (Deltares,

Alterra, KNMI, TNO, KWR, CAB)

• Development of the portal in 2014 maintenance through

the CAS fundation

• Primary CC data provided by KNMI(Met Office)

• Secondary/tertiary impacts: KfK/CCsP funded research

• Measures and best practises from Delta Programme and

KfK/CCsP projects

Climate Adaptation Atlas

Primary CC impacts from the KNMI (Met Office)

2nd/3rd order impacts: joint effort of various knowledge institutes funded by KfK/CCsp

Go to ‘guiding principles for adaptation

Adaptation measure databaseSeveral databases available

Image database

Best practices

Touch table

Key lessons learnt

• Science policy interaction is CRUCIAL:

A) To clarify user needs (selection of indicators for which purposes);

B) To gain understanding of what science can and can’t produce

• The importance of visualisation: reducing the abundance of data

to a comprehensive set of maps, using interactive maps and

touchtable technology

• Pursuade scientists to share their latest resuls (don’t wait for

anything better)

• Move beyond primary CC impacts: from Climate services towards

Adaptation services

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