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NCCS-Impacts: Global climate change impact on Swiss economy
How does global climate change impact Switzerland’s economic performance, and food and medicine supply? In a globally interlinked economic system, the impacts of weather and climate extremes across the globe driven by climate change affect Swiss supply and production chains as well as international sales markets. These risks are being investigated and modelled by an interdisciplinary consortium in a project of the NCCS-Impacts research program on behalf of the federal government’s National Centre for Climate Services (NCCS). In close exchange with stakeholders, we create a prototype for a climate service addressing global climate risks.
With the program “Decision Support for Dealing with Climate Change in Switzerland: a crosssectoral approach (NCCS-Impacts)”, the National Centre for Climate Services (NCCS) seeks to support decision-makers with broad available systemic overviews of climate change impacts on and in Switzerland and to enable sustainable management of risks and opportunities – and to foster the development of climate services.
In project 2 of NCCS-Impacts, “Impacts of global climate change on Switzerland”, we cooperate with CelsiusPro, Correntics, EBP Schweiz AG and the Weather and Climate Risks Group at ETH Zurich headed by Prof. Dr. David N. Bresch to provide accessible information on the impacts of climate change on Switzerland’s economic performance and security of supplies due to disruptions on production chains and international sales markets caused by weather and climate extremes. A special focus is put on the societally highly relevant supply of food and pharmaceutical goods. Additionally, we seek to develop a tool providing actionable measures and recommendations to ultimately increase the resilience of the Swiss economy and society.
The core product of the project will be a model-based tool, inviting the user to learn more about specific climate risks, integrating ETH’s CLIMADA risk modelling framework with sup-ply-chain simulations and global data sets.
We will be responsible for stakeholder engagement, involving industrial Swiss partners, to collect their feedback on the web tool produced by the consortium and discuss the implications of the results for climate adaptation. To address the needs of the users of the elaborated products, the stakeholder dialogue led by Risk Dialogue includes different actors from several sectors. This permits to receive the needed inputs to elaborate a product that is useful for a variety of actors – and to raise the awareness for the impacts of climate change and the need to act in the face of the climate crisis.
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