Objectives

Project Objectives

Main objective

Clim-ATIC’s overall objective after three years is to establish a sustainable, self-financing service that will provide information, training and advice to communities, small businesses, and local administrations across the Northern Periphery who wish to significantly increase their capacity to adapt to the impacts of climate change.

This service will be established and delivered in collaboration with the University of the Arctic, an existing cooperative network of 109 universities, colleges, and other organisations across the Arctic.

Intermediate objectives

To achieve this overall objective, the project will undertake a number of key activities over the three-year period subdivided into five separate work packages, with communities and community sector stakeholders across all five participating regions of the Northern Periphery, to build the necessary knowledge.

	a comprehensive review of the likely short and long-term implications of climate change on a number of specific rural communities in each partner region
	develop climate change vulnerability scenarios using existing climate change data and models, social change scenarios, and local knowledge and experience
	identify the barriers and opportunities for rural communities that wish to adapt to climate change
	development, adoption and initial implementation of a Community Climate Change Adaptation Strategy by the participating communities.
	the planning, delivery and evaluation of up to 12 complementary adaptation demonstration projects by communities and their stakeholders across the Northern Periphery.

Five work packages will jointly contribute to the overall objective. Work packages 2 and 3 will develop the capacity for adaptation, work package 4 will evaluate the realities of delivering adaptation actions, and work package 5 will bring all the lessons together and create a sustainable service, providing information, training and advice relating to community climate change adaptation.

Outcomes

The knowledge gained will initially be made available to all those participating, and then to non-participating communities and stakeholders, through a variety of regional and international dissemination events throughout the project and, in the long term, through the establishment of a formal service. This will ensure a high quality in the content and delivery of information, and the capacity to remain abreast of emerging knowledge relating to climate change, likely impacts, and opportunities for adaptation.