MODELLING CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS USING ONLINE PLATFORMS
MODELLING CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS USING ONLINE PLATFORMS

Summary/Abstract: One of the general characteristics of contemporary society is change, be it at political, social, cultural or industrial level. This changing trend has slowly been passed to the surrounding environment and thus to the natural elements. Therefore, one of the most important problems that society is facing nowadays is climate change. Although there are increasingly more and more efforts and directives in the sense of slowing and stopping the human actions that are causing climate change, we are still in danger of facing extreme situations. These situations are also called 'high-end' scenarios and are increasingly plausible. Existing modelling tools of climate change effects are limited in the sense that they do not take into consideration these high-end scenarios and their simulations usually get uni-sectorial results. This raises the need to develop an innovative integrated assessment (IA) tool to allow both decision-makers and the general public to have access to relevant and credible scientific information on climate change. This article will present such a tool that will analyse a multitude of important key sectors that interact and are interconnected through their sharing resources. The instrument will cover a variety of key sectors such as: forest, urban, land use, water, flooding, agriculture, yield and biodiversity. The tool is an online platform with delayed response that will simulate the effects of climate change at a multi-sectorial level, also allowing the exploration of adaptation strategies for the identified high-end scenario. The platform is also a powerful educational tool through which students have access to information on climate change being encouraged that every effort no matter how small may help improve the current situation.

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