TOPDAD

The objective of the project is to find the best strategies for businesses and regional governments to adapt to the expected short term and long term changes in climate.

ToPDAd will provide decision makers in businesses and regional governments with state-of-the-art socio-economic methods and tools, allowing for integrated decision making. The fundamental driver for regional adaptation are regional climate scenarios. The research focuses on seven case studies from the energy, transport and tourism sector in particular.

THe concept of the project is that a reliably functioning infrastructure is crucial in adapting in climate change.

The changes in climate will have an effect on trade, infrastructure and communication in Europe.

The project outcome is a tool set which connects updated knowledge about impacts and adaptation of climate change with the relevant information for policy making, and thus supporting decision making for adaptation strategies at Regional, National and EU level. The ToPDAd tools is build around a set of existing models developed by European research institutions (ARCADIA, Balmorel, Future Technology Transformations, GINFORS, MATSim, etc.). The tool presents outcomes of ToPDAd’s model calculations for seven European case studies and for three economic impact assessments. The Data Exploration tool allows the user to examine the data sets underlying the case studies and assessments. In particular, the seven regional cases studies provided detailed insights into the economic effects of climate change and adaptation measures on a time scale up to 2050. Furthermore, ToPDAd developed a methodology for participatory valuation and decision making called Strategy Robustness Visualisation Method (SRVM), which was applied in two demonstrations. SRVM visualises the robustness of adaptation strategies to support the decision-makers.