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The BalticClimate toolkit provides local and regional level policy makers, spatial planners, and the business community with climate mitigation and adaptation support. Development and increased competitiveness of municipalities, regions and companies are the main objectives.
The BalticClimate toolkit provides explanations of regional climate change scenarios and scenario impacts for the Baltic Sea Region (BSR), as well as for selected areas within the BSR. Also available are several levels of information and tailored processes for users to follow in terms of assessing vulnerability, as well as identifying the challenges and opportunities they may face due to climate change. Hence, the users are enabled to deal with climate change issues in a cooperative, integrated and sustainable way.
The stepwise processes are further backed up with examples of tool-use results from throughout the BSR, as well as video clips and presentations of cases of win-win-win situations, pertaining to the sectors of Transport, Energy, Housing and Agriculture.
The BalticClimate toolkit includes:
The BalticClimate toolkit is available publicly online in 11 BSR languages and English. Development was done within the BalticClimate project, part-funded by the European Union’s Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013. SEI participation was also funded by the Estonian Environmental Investment Centre.
Project / Development of HELCOM tools and approaches for the Second Holistic Assessment of the Ecosystem Health of the Baltic Sea (HELCOM TAPAS).
Perspective / There is a feasible path to decarbonise the gas sectors of the Baltic states and Finland by 2050 or earlier.
SEI report / In this report commissioned by the Estonian Government Office, SEI has researched Estonia's possibilities of becoming climate neutral by 2050.
Design and development by Soapbox.
