YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
The Climate services and tools group brings high-quality, state-of-the-art climate risk and adaptation data to policy makers and adaptation practitioners in order to facilitate climate action. To this end, Climate Analytics has developed open-access, user-friendly and interactive online tools that make climate impact projections or policy analysis outcomes easily available to policymakers, journalists, NGO staff members and researchers. These tools can be accessed via this page. Several other tools are currently under development, or will start being developed in the next months.
The ForestNavigator project is funded by the European Commission under the HorizonEurope scheme, started in October 2022 and will end in September 2026. The scientific consortium working on the project is led by IIASA (based in Laxenburg, Austria), but is made up of more than 20 international (mostly EU-based) institutions. In this project, Climate Analytics is responsible for the co-development with policymakers and other stakeholders of two webtools visualizing important scientific outcomes of the project. The first tool will enable exploration of high-resolution information about the health status, carbon sequestration potential and other ecosystem services provided by European forests. The second tool will offer information on possible policy scenarios for forest management to the EU member states. The information visualized in the webtools will be directly derived from data generated by forestry scientists and modelers from the ForestNavigator consortium.
The analysis of the data and its preparation for integration on the webtools is performed in-house at Climate Analytics, and supported by exchanges with the ForestNavigator partners, in particular with IIASA. IIASA is responsible for some of the back-end development, particularly the validation of the datasets generated as part of the project, their storage on their servers, as well as the creation of APIs to access those data. The front-end development will be done by web designers subcontracted by Climate Analytics.