In the NCCS programme «Decision Support for Dealing with Climate Change in Switzerland: a cross-sectoral approach» («NCCS-Impacts»), actionable climate services for the environment, economy and society will be developed from 2022 to 2025.
The effects of climate change in Switzerland are already visible today and affect different sectors. According to the CH2018 climate change scenarios, climate change will continue unchecked without countermeasures to avoid global greenhouse gas emissions.. The aim of the NCCS programme «Decision Support for Dealing with Climate Change in Switzerland: a cross-sectoral approach» («NCCS-Impacts») is to develop user-oriented climate services as decision support for planning in the field of climate change mitigation and adaptation, by means of six projects. The programme is jointly supported by all NCCS members.
Projects
Between 2022 and 2025, several cross-sectoral and interlinked projects will be implemented, addressing the following topics in the context of climate change:
- Global impacts
- Ecosystem services
- Human health and animal health
- Costs of climate change
- Socio-economic scenarios
- Critical energy infrastructures
All projects will also include the two cross-cutting themes of 'social justice' and 'extreme events'. Consortia made up of researchers and practitioners will develop actionable climate services in the projects. The NCCS members and partners ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO) and Agroscope are involved in some of the projects as internal partners providing specific services.
Public invitation to tender: June - August 2022
For the four projects 'global impacts', 'ecosystem services', 'human health and animal health' and 'costs of climate change', an invitation to tender in open procedure was published on 9 June 2022. The bidding period ended on 26 August 2022.
The project partners, who will implement the projects together with partners from the NCCS in the beginning of 2023, are expected to be announced at the end of 2022.
Further details of the NCCS-Impacts projects can be found here:
Goals of NCCS-Impacts
The NCCS-Impacts programme pursues three overarching goals:
- systemic overview of the impacts of climate change on and in Switzerland and its key challenges for the environment, economy and society;
- broad availability and use of jointly produced climate services for the targeted and sustainable management of the risks and opportunities of climate change; and
- cross-sectoral support of the Confederation and all stakeholders in their future-oriented actions to address the challenges of climate change.
The programme hence contributes to closing the gap identified between basic scientific research and measures in the fields of climate adaptation and climate mitigation.
Last modification 25.08.2022
