Innovations in Climate Services Workshop: Contributions of National Meteorological Services to National Adaptation Strategies

Many National Meteorological Services (NMSs) play a special role in climate services by contributing to national adaptation strategies, to the European Copernicus project and to the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This role particularly concerns information on extreme weather events.

In 2017 all EU member states countries are requested to have a national adaptation strategy. The Dutch government strongly supports this development and has commissioned the organization of this workshop.

The workshop involves NMSs, policy makers at national and European level, environmental agencies, projects that aim for providing climate services, companies providing adaptation services and NGOs. Among others there will be participants from Copernicus, EEA, EU DG Clima, EU DG R&I, GFCS, JPI-Climate, Provia, CTCN, C.S. Roadmap and WMO CCI.

About the programme:

There will be sessions with focus on adaptation in Europe and sessions with focus on contributions of European NMSs to adaptation in the rest of the world. To give a flavor, there will be:

Topical sessions:

Introducing innovations in Climate Services and discussing their optimal use for National Adaptation Strategies:

• Insurance and flooding
• Energy security
• Drought and agriculture
• New approaches to assess future extreme events
• Heat waves and health risks

Roundtable sessions:

About current challenges in Climate Services, u.o.:

• From meteorological information to impact assessment
• How can NMSs contribute more to Climate Services in EU?
• Changing scope: from 'sectoral' towards 'integrated' approach
• Cross border climate change impacts