Project activities in Sweden

Participating communities:

1. Åre Municipality with Åreföretagarna (Åre local business organisation).

2. Lycksele Municipality with local forest owners.

Demonstration projects:

1. Adaptation within Destination Åre to changing travel patterns caused by climate change

In order to face the increased demands within the tourism industry on climate friendly transportation as well as securing travels to remote tourist destinations in the future, Åre local business organisation  and the municipality of Åre cooperate in creating sustainable travel patters within Destination ÅRE. Developing internal carrier routes within the destination ÅRE will be part of the project.

2. Adapting a local woodland management plan (WMP) to the impacts of climate change

The project will bring together the experience of local woodland owners and the knowledge of researcher through adapting a local WMP to the impacts of climate change. We will use a computerized tool developed in a research project when presenting our results at the Forest Museum in Lycksele in an exhibition during the summer of 2010.

Other project partners

Umeå University         

Åre Municipality

2009:  

Presentation of local climate change scenarios for Åre (April).

Local strategy process concerning responsibility for the environment, where climate change adaptation is included, for the Åre local business organisation (January-June).

A local strategy concerning responsibility for the environment including climate change is presented at Åredagen (May 15). The strategy concerning responsibility for climate change adaptation activities, including a common car standard, is followed up (November 2009).

Developing and introduction of updated internal carrier routes and timetables within destination ÅRE (May-December).

Creating a model for measuring the number of travellers with public buses and use it in practice. (July-December).

Contributing to a visualization of POD-car solutions within destination Åre, (May-July 2009).

Exhibition of climate change adaptation work in destination ÅRE during two informal EU summits of energy and environmental ministers (July 22-25).

Evaluate the electric car test within destination Åre (September).

Measure and evaluate the number of environmental cars within destination Åre in compare to before the project began (December).

Producing an annual report (December 2009).

2010:

Complete and follow up ongoing project activities before writing reports (spring 2010).

Presentation of the outcomes from the Clim-ATIC project (autumn 2010).

Lycksele municipality:

2008:

Initial launch meeting for all project partners in May 2008

2009: 

Presentation of local climate scenarios for Lycksele (Feb)

Workshops with local groups in order to create a vulnerability and possibility assessment (Feb-June)

Seminars on climate change and how it impacts local forest management (March-April)

Exhibition of climate change adaptation innovations made by primary school students (May)

Workshops with local forest owners in order to adapt a local woodland management plan (Sept-Dec)

2010:

Presentation of a climate change adaptation plan for Lycksele municipality (Spring 2010)

Climate change – a business opportunity? (2010)

Exhibition of a local woodland management plan adapted to the impacts of climate change at the Forest Museum (Summer 2010)

Regional project publications and media coverage:

Climate scenarios:

Articles:

Gör Hawaii-udden skäl för sitt namn år 2040? (December 2008)

Lycksele 5 grader varmare om 100 år (February 2008)

Diskussioner om Lyckseles framtida klimat (March 2008)

Creative adaptation ideas collected in Destination Åre (Jan 2009)

Sweden facing climate change - Treats and opportunities