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Global Change Impacts
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The Earth is warming. Recent years have been the warmest on record in the northern hemisphere for a millennium. Policy decisions have to be made on commitments to curb greenhouse gas emissions, on financial and other incentives to promote energy use efficiency to enable national commitments to be met, and on measures to adapt to further climate change that now seems inevitable.
The research carried out by the PEER network “Global Change Impacts” aims to provide information for a better understanding of the interactions between human society and the natural system, thus lessening the uncertainty concerning the magnitude of change and its impacts, so that mitigation and adaptive measures can be taken in the European Union and globally to alleviate undesirable consequences and to take advantage of desirable consequences of global change. Special emphasis will be given to the adaptation of ecosystems and land use to a globally changing environment. A multidisciplinary scientific research approach is needed in order to deliver this.
PEER research on global change impacts provides background information for both national and international decision making, including also the expertise of environmental sociologists and economists working at the PEER centres. Policy oriented assessment work is carried out in relation to the activities of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Within Framework Programme 6, PEER members contributed to several Expressions of Interest such as WATAC (Water, Climate and Sustainability) and ENVISAGE (A Virtual Institute for Sustainability Assessment).
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For more information on this research network please contact:
Dr Pavel Kabat
ALTERRA
Droevendaalsesteeg 3
6700 AA Wageningen
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31-317-474664
Fax: +31-317-419000
E-mail:
Dr Tim Carter
SYKE - Finnish Environment Institute
P.O. Box 140
Mechelininkatu 34a
00251 Helsinki
Finland
Tel.: +358-20-490 2315
Fax: +358-20-490 2391
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