Clim-ATIC will support community stakeholders to work in partnership with public sector and academic institutions to explore the potential for different community sectors to develop adaptation capacity, and deliver real adaptations under priority themes for the Northern Periphery, providing local economic and social advantages. More...

Clim-ATIC will support community stakeholders to work in partnership with public sector and academic institutions to explore the potential for different community sectors to develop adaptation capacity, and deliver real adaptations under priority themes for the Northern Periphery, providing local economic and social advantages.

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This project will bring together new and existing knowledge and experiences on how rural communities can better increase their capacity to make, and implement adaptation decisions: Locally relevant climate change vulnerability scenarios Examples of climate change impact visualisations and communication tools Examples of community climate cha... More...

This project will bring together new and existing knowledge and experiences
on how  rural communities can better increase their capacity to make,
and implement adaptation decisions:

• Locally relevant climate change vulnerability scenarios
• Examples of climate change impact visualisations and communication tools
• Examples of community climate change adaptation strategies
• Examples of real adaptations made communities

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Clim-ATIC will establish an international sustainable, self-financing service to disseminate, knowledge to support the sustainability of rural communities across the Northern Periphery, enabling them to adapt to likely direct and indirect impacts of climate change. More...

Clim-ATIC will establish an international sustainable, self-financing service to disseminate, knowledge to support the sustainability of rural communities across the Northern Periphery, enabling them to adapt to likely direct and indirect impacts of climate change.

 

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Each region has now produced locally relevant climate change vulnerability scenarios. A variety of climate change impact visualisations and communication tools have been used to enable a range of community groups to identify the impacts that are relevant to them. In appropriate cases this has lead to the development of either stand alone community ... More...

Each region has now produced locally relevant climate change vulnerability scenarios. A variety of climate change impact visualisations and communication tools have been used to enable a range of community groups to identify the impacts that are relevant to them. In appropriate cases this has lead to the development of either stand alone community climate change adaptation strategies, or adaptation strategies that are integrated with mitigation, energy or tourism strategies.

Clim-ATIC is currently implementing 12 adaptation demonstration projects under 4 themes:

Theme 1: Sustainable transport

1. Demonstrating shared community use of a sustainably fuelled (Electric) vehicle in a rural area; Cairngorms National Park, Scotland.
2. Adaptation within Destination Åre to changing travel patterns caused by climate change, Sweden.
3. Adapting dog sledging to changes in the arctic climate, Greenland.

Theme 2: Sustainable energy management

4. Awareness raising, training and promotion for the local wood fuel industry in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland.
5. Adapting a local woodland management plan to the impacts of climate change, Lycksele, Sweden.
6. A demonstration project to use waste from the fishing industry to create energy in the form of bio-gas or bio-oil, in Sisimiut, Greenland.

Theme 3: Tourism opportunities

7. 'Stay & Play' - selling alternative activities to the winter sports market in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland
8. Future tourism prospects for local communities in Finnish Lapland
9. Develop a prototype lightweight and sustainable tourist hut in Greenland.

Theme 4: Risk management and response

10. A river restoration project in Glen Urquhart, Scotland, to increase ecological and social benefits, whist mitigating flood risk.
11. A GIS flood risk management system in Kittilä and Rovaniemi, Finland
12. Early Warning – developing and testing a people-centered system of early warnings for extreme weather events, by the use of modern technology, the County of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway.

From these projects, transnational lessons are being learnt and recorded about how local capacity development could be better supported, through increased knowledge, policy changes or funding.

 

Throughout 2010 the project is resourcing a series of transnational community study tours to increase knowledge about adaptation activities. In early February all WP4 project leaders will meet in Rovaniemi to share project lessons. Primary school teachers from across the NPP are travelling to Lycksele in late February to discover new teaching methods. Tourism sector stakeholders are visiting Åre in March to see tourism diversification activities. Scottish National park representatives are travelling to Finland in spring to learn more about woodfuel use and flood management. Secondary school teachers and pupils are planning on meeting in Norway in September to discuss adaption issues. The project is planning a 3 day international conference in Norway on 26-28^th October 2010.

 

A feasibility study has taken place to identify the most appropriate route to plan for a NPP wide climate change adaptation community training and advice service.  A key meeting is planned for 17th February 2010 with the key national climate change scenario supplier in each region, a representative of the key audience for such a service – the association of local authorities for each region - and the European Environment Agency.

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