Strategic simulations and serious game

Policy Simulations If the video below does not appear, please accept cookies, or view on YouTube In the CASCADES project, we applied an innovative approach to engage stakeholders – a policy simulation exercise coordinated by the Center for Systems Solutions. Project-specific Policy Simulations allowed participants to explore plausible, research-based stories of the future with realistic effects […]

Risk assessment

To understand climate impacts, it is crucial to identify vulnerabilities and causal pathways that interact and lead to second- or third-order impacts, in the short, medium and long-term.

Trade

Trade systems are major conveyors of climate risks, transmitting pressures on prices of key commodities (such as food and energy) and services and also being subject to intermittent collapse and interruptions by climate impacts.

Foreign policy, security and development

Climate impacts outside Europe are likely to affect European foreign, security and development policy through their effect on livelihoods, water, food and energy systems, security and diplomatic relations in countries with close ties to the EU and its member states

Finance

Climate change is already having huge impacts on investor portfolios and financial flows around the world. The interconnected nature of the economy and of the financial sector will continue to amplify climate risks.

European resilience

The CASCADES project will develop a multilevel governance framework to describe and support actions within Europe that build resilience to cascading climate impacts