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Add policy relevance to storyboards #70

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Peter9192 opened this issue Mar 7, 2022 · 1 comment
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Add policy relevance to storyboards #70

Peter9192 opened this issue Mar 7, 2022 · 1 comment

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As a policymaker,
I'd like to read a quick summary of the key policy messages in a storyboard,
so I can judge if the story is relevant for me

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Peter9192 commented Mar 7, 2022

Here are some policy relevance messages extracted from Alex' paper summaries:

  • Drought storylines: These results highlight the potential for more severe droughts in a warmer future,
    events that can have serious impacts on communities and agriculture. By putting these future projections in the context of a recent drought event, communicating them to the public and policymakers is more valuable. Such projections are crucial for policymakers in planning effective adaptation and mitigation strategies to limit the impacts of future climate change.

  • Rainstorms: These findings are relevant to climate mitigation and adaptation policy in Europe, with specific implications for future flooding impacts, the design of infrastructure systems, and the management of water resources.

  • Copenhagen flood: The results of this study are useful for informing climate policies aimed at reducing the impact of future climate change. A better understanding of how extreme rainfall events may change is key to putting effective mitigation and adaptation measures in place to protect communities and infrastructure.

  • Sandy beach erosion: The results of this study have clear relevance to policymakers, highlighting the importance of accurate geophysical datasets and observational programs for the representation of the coast and providing a better understanding of the future of Europe’s sandy shorelines, helping identify the areas most at risk. This helps local and national authorities put in
    place policies to protect vulnerable coastal communities from the impacts of climate change.

  • Skillful summer temp: Understanding how to improve our predictions of climate change a decade ahead is of great importance to the plans being made today. Communities and policymakers can use improved climate predictions to formulate the best-informed policies to reduce the impact of future climate change, including adaptation and mitigation measures.

  • Alpine floods (this is from Pichelli's paper): These results demonstrate the improvements that the use of RCMs at
    convection-permitting scale in a model-ensemble approach can bring to our predictions of precipitation in areas with complex topography, which also allow for a better representation of the most extreme rainfall events. Improving our predictions with such an approach will allow communities and policymakers to make better-informed decisions around adapting to and mitigating the impact of this important aspect of climate change.

  • Wheat sector: This study has strong relevance to future decisions made by the agriculture industry in adapting to, and mitigating the impacts of, climate change. It can also form the basis of new climate services for the sector, supported by ongoing modelling, as well as lending its methodology to studies in other sectors. Studies of this kind can inform policymakers in helping industries adapt to near-term climate change and the impacts it will bring.

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