Result description
The PROVIDE climate risk dashboard is an interactive online tool providing detailed information on different future global warming scenarios and expected impacts on the climate, natural, and human systems. The data covers indicators related to: climate variables and extreme events as well as oceanic habitability around the globe, and urban heat stress at city level. More data on cryosphere loss, permafrost melt, agriculture, economic loss etc., will be added before finalisation.
We also include state-of-the-art assessments of overshoot scenarios – in which average global temperatures would temporarily ‘overshoot’ the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement – before being brought back down again. Overshoot scenarios are prominent in the latest IPCC reports, but the specific risks inherent to them, including potentially irreversible impacts (such as species extinction), have so far been under-researched.
Users are able to set risk thresholds for heat stress in cities, for example, heatwaves or extremely high temperature levels that should be avoided, and then access information on the emissions scenarios under which the selected threshold can be avoided, or not.
Addressing target audiences and expressing needs
- To raise awareness and possibly influence policy
- Grants and Subsidies
- Other blended financing
The Climate risk dashboard is developed through the European Union’s Horizon 2020’s research and innovation program project PROVIDE. PROVIDE comes to an end in December 2024, after which we seek opportunities to continue to develop and update the tool to ensure up-to-date urban scale information on impacts of “worst case” climate overshoot scenarios. In addition to data upkeep, coverage of additional global urban areas, new functionalities, or extended support could be areas of interest for further tool development. We welcome funding discussions related to such interests to ensure a long-lasting climate service tool to support global adaptation.
- Public or private funding institutions
- EU and Member State Policy-makers
- Research and Technology Organisations
R&D, Technology and Innovation aspects
More impact data on cryosphere loss, permafrost melt, agriculture, economic loss etc., will be added before the final version of the Climate risk dashboard. Additionally, a third “Adaptation” module is in development to offer guidance and case study examples for how data provided by the dashboard can be considered by adaptation communities, as well as highlighting a policy methodology developed within the PROVIDE project for consideration of climate “overshoot”.
Result submitted to Horizon Results Platform by CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS