ERA4CS Additional Activities: Mapping of European and International Activities
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ERA4CS Additional Activities: Mapping of European and International Activities Work Package 7 - Deliverable 3 Delivery date: 30.1.2017 (revision 6.10.2017) Dissemination Level: Public Authors: Mikko Strahlendorff (FMI, Patrick Monfray (ANR), Jörg Cortekar (GERICS), Bart van den Hurk (KNMI), Thanasis Sfetsos (DEMOKRITOS), Chris Hewitt (UKMO), Fernando Belda (AEMET) and Harilaos Loukos (Climate-KIC) Lead beneficiary: FMI Project full title: ERA-NET Cofund “European Research Area for Climate Services” Project acronym: ERA4CS Grant Agreement number: 690462 Project start date: 1st January 2016 Funding scheme: Horizon 2020 SC5-02-2015 Duration: 60 months Table of contents Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Global initiatives ............................................................................................................................................................... 5 World Meteorological Organisation ..................................................................................................................... 5 Global Framework for Climate Services ......................................................................................................... 5 Global Climate Observing System ..................................................................................................................... 5 World Climate Research Program .................................................................................................................... 6 World Climate Services Program ...................................................................................................................... 6 Global Program on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation ................................... 6 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change .............................................................................................. 7 Group on Earth Observation ................................................................................................................................... 7 Future Earth ................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Climate Services Partnership .................................................................................................................................. 8 Climate Services publication series ...................................................................................................................... 9 National climate service centres outside of Europe ....................................................................................... 9 European initiatives ........................................................................................................................................................ 9 EU Copernicus Earth Observation program ...................................................................................................... 9 C3S climate change service .............................................................................................................................. 10 CAMS atmosphere service ................................................................................................................................ 10 CMEMS marine environmental service ....................................................................................................... 10 European Joint Programming Initiatives related to climate issues ...................................................... 11 JPI FACCE (www.faccejpi.com) ....................................................................................................................... 11 JPI Water (www.waterjpi.eu) .......................................................................................................................... 11 JPI Oceans (www.jpi-oceans.eu) .................................................................................................................... 11 JPI Urban Europe (jpi-urbaneurope.eu) ...................................................................................................... 12 EUMETNET (European Network of National Meteorological services) .............................................. 12 EIT Climate KIC .......................................................................................................................................................... 13 The European Climate Research Alliance (ECRA) ....................................................................................... 13 European Regional Initiatives .................................................................................................................................. 14 International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine ...................................................................... 14 Nordic Framework for Climate Services (Nordic FCS) .............................................................................. 15 International Commission for the Protection of the Alps (CIPRA) ........................................................ 16 European projects ......................................................................................................................................................... 16 CLIMATEUROPE ........................................................................................................................................................ 16 ECOPOTENTIAL ......................................................................................................................................................... 17 EUPORIAS .................................................................................................................................................................... 18 2 EU-MACS and MARCO ............................................................................................................................................. 19 Other Projects Listing.............................................................................................................................................. 19 3 ERA-NET Additional Activities WP 7: Research for Climate Services: Joint Analysis and Vision Task 7.3: Mapping of European and international activities Introduction The UNFCC Paris Agreement is giving a formal frame to the efforts of UN countries to both mitigate climate change and adapt to it. It is setting targets to 2° and perhaps 1.5° global mean temperature increase, and we know that this will requires both drastic adaptation public policies and drastic mitigation public policies. Climate services are relevant to both policies and have been highlighted in the Paris Agreement under the Article 7 Adaptation goals for an area to be strengthened with cooperation actions. The Joint Programming Initiative Climate is joining European countries to make climate research together in many disciplines and in the ERA4CS European research area for climate services ERANET this effort is concentrating on emerging climate services to aid society in mitigating and adapting to climate change. In the ERA4CS work package 7 JPI Climate actions are being reviewed and analysed in view to other relevant climate services actions. For this JPI Climate wants to find out all relevant activities and actors for climate services, especially in Europe, but also on global scale. In ERA4CS work package 7 task 2 a survey is made to map national level actions in all European countries. In task 3 this report is compiling together the supranational, European scale and global initiatives. The task 3 focus is especially on investigating what actions the initiatives have formally adopted to do and whether their funding is secured or depends on the goodwill of other entities to perform the actions. This report also tries to map the connections that JPI Climate has to these activities. The process for this report was to first find relevant documents that describe strategies and plans of climate service actions from the ERA4CS partner network. In the next steps these documents or web resources were analysed for references to climate services or JPI Climate and how the initiative is being resourced. The editors finally drafted short summaries of this analysis into the texts of this report. This report has been compiled by an editing team lead by Mikko Strahlendorff (FMI) including Patrik Monfray (ANR), Jörg Cortekar (GERICS), Bart van den Hurk (KNMI), Thanasis Sfetsos (DEMOKRITOS), Chris Hewitt (UKMO), Fernando Belda (AEMET) and Harilaos Loukos (Climate- KIC). The report is open for comments and additions to the ERA4CS partners and all the network contacts that have been identified in in the ERA4CS kickoff meeting. 4 Global initiatives The World Meteorological Organization is the most active international organization active in the domain of climate services. Other less organized initiatives are also very relevant for climate services as global frameworks. World Meteorological Organisation Overarching WMO climate services actions is the general World Climate Program1. WMO has many programs also outside of WCP and here are listed the most relevant ones for climate services. Generally WMO is not resourcing activities as such, but they are performed on the resources of its members while WMO organises the coordination. WMO has no direct link