CIRCLE (Climate Impact Research Coordination within a Larger Europe) coordinates EU research on the effects of climate change and strategies for adaptation. CIRCLE is an ERA-net programme, which gathers together funding organisations within EU. The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency is one of 23 member organizations from 19 countries.
Climate change management in the Nordic countries
In 2007 the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, the Finnish Academy and the Research Council of Norway announced joint funding for the research.
Joint funding
The three projects funded were:
Local climate policy and its interaction with the world
The project built a Nordic network for research on local climate change initiatives and how the work interacts with policy at other levels of society. The network has highlighted the criteria for adaptive capacity and analysed the conditions for learning in climate change initiatives. Among other things, the project points out the importance of different actors taking part in such networks. The project has some continuation in the Nordic Top Research Initiative NORDCLAD network.
Climate change, community response and multilevel governance – Final report (pdf 374 kB)
Poster: Climate change, community response and multilevel governance (pdf 152 kB)
Climate adaptation in Norway, Sweden and Finland – Research, Policy and Practice
This project aimed at evaluating how existing research is employed for policy and practice. The considerable but varying accessibility to climate data for climate impact studies, including records for planning and communication can be difficult to handle, and more customized and assessable information is required. Increased exchange of information and coordination of information are asked for.
Poster: Research, policy and practice (pdf 131 kB)
Relevance of climate change research for policy making in Norway, Sweden, and Finland (pdf 229 kB)
Survey on the use of climate scenarios and climate change research information in ... (pdf 323 kB)
A regional assessment of vulnerability and adaptive capacity for the Nordic countries, CARAVAN
The project has developed indicators for vulnerability in collaboration with regional stakeholders. The indicators can be combined in various ways to describe vulnerability using an interactive mapping tool. Indices of vulnerability can be derived at municipality scale and mapped across the Nordic region. The mapping tool also offers options for plotting vulnerability of the elderly to a number of potential climate hazards.
Poster: Mapping vulnerability to climate change in the Nordic region (pdf 1 MB)
CARAVAN continues as an EU FP7 project, MEDIATION, at SYKE, Finland.
Continuation of CIRCLE
There is a continuation of the CIRCLE programme called CIRCLE-2.
See information on this website.
CIRCLE-2 website
For information on the programme contact:
Marianne Lilliesköld
Phone: +46 (0)10 698 1269
E-mail: marianne.lillieskold@swedishepa.se