Result description
T6 is offering a service of socio-economic impact assessment to accompany any given climate service. By conducting a flexible and adaptable socioeconomic impact assessment, T6 offers to a potential client (e.g. a private and public climate service user) a dedicated assessment on the benefits (e.g., how the product is going to benefit the users, at which costs) of the use of this service for a given organization. Based on the socioeconomic impact assessment, T6 is also able to provide policy recommendations for a variety of stakeholders around climate change and associated topics, such as urban planning, sustainability, environmental policies, transportation, and so on. T6 is also able to offer accompanying measures for the implementation of the policies such as co-designing of policies with local stakeholders and policy analysis of related policies active in other countries.
The socioeconomic impact assessment for the demonstration and replication cases in Climate-fit.city found that potential impacts by the climate services are diversified and depend on the specificities of the case including the goal of the climate service, the kind of available data, and the type of involved stakeholders. In all the demonstration and replication cases, it has been found that diverse actual and potential added values exist in terms of public service effectiveness, economic impacts, policy impacts, and raising awareness impacts. Along the project, it has been confirmed that the climate services represent a relevant tool that can provide scientific support, for example through their maps, data, and climate scenarios, that can lead to potential improvement of the effectiveness into a range of public services. On this regard, the climate services proved to potentially provide a relevant support for the development of evidence-based urban policies. Furthermore, the climate service potentially contributes to reduce costs for the local and national health service, thanks to e.g. CO2 emissions reduction and related reduction of pollution-related deaths.
Addressing target audiences and expressing needs
- We are sharing our knowledge
- To raise awareness and possibly influence policy
- Collaboration
Users should use the service because both public and private organizations are still far from a clear understanding of the socio-economic impacts their implemented services/future policies have/might have. In this way, T6’s services can support organizations in having a better understanding of how and why they are implementing a service, and who are the people that could benefits from these services from different points of view.
- Others/ No specific audience
- EU and Member State Policy-makers
- Research and Technology Organisations
Result submitted to Horizon Results Platform by Agencia de Salut Publica de Barcelona
