Supporting the Needs of Climate Change Risks Assessment Using Data from Several Research Infrastructures

Effective adaptation to climate change requires a comprehensive understanding of climate-related risks, including their underlying drivers—hazards, exposure, and vulnerability—and their impacts on human, economic, and natural systems. The Integrated Research Infrastructure Services for Climate Change Risks (IRISCC) project brings together a consortium of leading and complementary research infrastructures spanning natural and social sciences and covering a wide range of domains and sectors. IRISCC integrates these capabilities through Service Design Labs, which apply co-design and transdisciplinary approaches, and through Service Demonstrators that benchmark and validate cross-infrastructure services.

The IRISCC Demonstrators are pilot projects designed to showcase the added value of combining data, tools, and expertise from multiple research infrastructures to create new services that are beyond the capacity of a single infrastructure to provide. By connecting existing environmental research infrastructures with the growing demand for actionable climate-risk knowledge, IRISCC aims to accelerate the development of integrated solutions for climate change risk assessment.

This presentation will illustrate how future climate data are being incorporated across all six Demonstrators, and how these datasets are combined with other research infrastructure resources to assess climate-related risks. Finally, we will introduce the Transnational and Virtual Access opportunities offered through IRISCC access calls, highlighting how researchers and stakeholders can access Europe’s climate-risk research facilities and services to engage with the IRISCC community.

This work was supported by the IRISCC project. IRISCC is funded by the European Union (Horizon Europe) under grant agreement No 101131261.