Author: Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL), Environmental Projects Ltd., Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research (CSPR), Regional Council of Central Finland, Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn Centre (SEIT)
Year of publication: 2014
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Climate change adaptation assessment
Format of assessment: Web tool
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: 2 years
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Policy makers, spatial planners and business people
Institutional scale of use: Multiple (see details)
Details: Regional and local/community
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Multiple actors
Details: Regional and local decision makers
Output: Report
Region of origin: Europe
Developed by which sector: Science
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Europe
Potential geographic coverage: Baltic Sea Region
Sectors covered: Agriculture, Biodiversity, Infrastructure, Forestry, Commercial sector, Health Sector, Water sector, Energy sector
Method used: Mixed method approach
Description of methodology: Quantitative inventory phase including data collection on climate change, planning instruments, spatial structure, etc. and qualitative vulnerability assessment phase including questionnaires
Risk framework used: AR4
Details: Toolkit is mainly focused on vulnerability
Risk components incorporated: Exposure, vulnerability
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Extreme rainfall, Flood, Coastal erosion, Sea level rise, Landslide, Wildfire, Storm
Source of required data: Secondary (available data is used)
Details: Local statistical data (socio-economic, energy, transport, housing/building, agriculture, generic sector) and climate change related data (greenhouse gas emissions, future climate)
Temporal scale: Current, Forward looking
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: Workshops with experts and decision makers
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Partly
Adressing uncertainty: Partly
Details: It does not thematize uncertainty, but acknowledges that it exists
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Yes
Details: The BalticClimate Tool was originally intended to guide climate adaptation decisions, but has now been extended to also include mitigation activities
Usefulness for political purposes: The BalticClimate toolkit is an empowering knowledge transfer instrument for actors on the local and regional level who are not necessarily the experts on climate change but who have an important role to play in the preparation, financing and decision making related to the implementation of climate change measures
Applied by whom: BalticClimate
Open access: Yes