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Supporting and standardizing climate services in Europe and beyond

Project description

Supporting and standardising climate services in Europe and beyond

Climate information is essential for achieving climate neutrality, resilience and a green recovery in Europe, but it must be delivered in ways that decision-makers can trust, understand and use. The tailored provision of this information for decision-making, known as climate services, plays a key role. Demand is growing rapidly, yet the field remains fragmented, with many actors, inconsistent practices and limited quality assurance, making it difficult for users to compare services or assess their reliability. Building on the earlier Climateurope project, the EU-funded Climateurope2 supports the development of European standards for climate services, contributing to CEN/CENELEC standardisation efforts, identifying approaches for quality assurance and strengthening the climate services community through networking activities, events and an online platform.

Objective

Timely delivery and effective use of climate information is fundamental for a green recovery and a resilient, climate neutral Europe, in response to climate change and variability. Climate services address this through the provision of climate information for use in decision-making to manage risks and realise opportunities.
The market and needs for climate information has seen impressive progress in recent years and is expected to grow in the foreseeable future. However, the communities involved in the development and provision of climate services are often unaware of each other, and lack interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge. In addition, quality assurance, relevant standards, and other forms of assurance (such as guidelines, and good practices) for climate services are lagging behind. These are needed to ensure the saliency, credibility, legitimacy and authoritativeness of climate services, and build two-way trust between supply and demand.
Climateurope2 aims to develop future equitable and quality-assured climate services to all sectors of society by:
● Developing standardisation procedures for climate services
● Supporting an equitable European climate services community
● Enhancing the uptake of quality-assured climate services to support adaptation and mitigation to climate change and variability
The project will identify the support and standardisation needs of climate services, including criteria for certification and labelling, as well as the user-driven criteria needed to support climate action. This information will be used to propose a taxonomy of climate services, suggest community-based good practices and guidelines, and propose standards where possible. A large variety of activities to support the communities involved in European climate services will also be organised.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01

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Coordinator

BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION
Net EU contribution
€ 1 659 187,50
Address
CALLE JORDI GIRONA 31
08034 BARCELONA
Spain
Region
Este Cataluña Barcelona
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Research Organisations
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Total cost
€ 1 659 187,50

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