ERA-NET Cofund for Climate Services
The ERA-NET Consortium “European Research Area for Climate Services”, so-called ERA4CS, has been designed to boost the development of efficient Climate Services in Europe, by supporting research for developing better tools, methods and standards on how to produce, transfer, communicate and use reliable climate information to cope with current and future climate variability.
What are Climate Services?
We consider Climate Services as the user-driven development, translation and transfer of climate knowledge to researchers and decision¬makers in policy and business. This includes knowledge for understanding the climate, climate change and its impacts, as well as guidance in the use of climate knowledge.
ERA4CS is an initiative of
Co-funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union (Grant 690462)
Recent news
| Climate risk: Need for more collaboration between research and finance How can investors protect their portfolios against physical impacts of climate change? A new report from the ERA4CS funded project ClimINVEST project provides insight to what investors need to make better investment decisions in a changing climate. CICERO, Tuesday 12 March 2019 |
| Call on Next Generation Climate Science in Europe for Oceans is launched JPI Climate & JPI Oceans Joint Transnational Call on Next Generation Climate Science in Europe for Oceans is launched on 18 of February. The joint call is supported by 8 countries with a total budget of 8.1 million EUR. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Monday 18 February 2019 |
| Side-event at ECCA Conference "5 years of climate services in JPI Climate: state of affairs, lessons learned and the way forward" Climate services are posted to become a source of key strategic information for many sectors, but perhaps the one in which their momentum is greater is climate finances, given their role in disclosure requirements for the investment process of institutional investors. The target audience includes researchers, academics, private sector and research funders that invest in climate service research. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Tuesday 12 February 2019 |
| Clim2Power's 2nd User Board Meeting ERA4CS project Clim2Power's 2nd User Board Meeting is held on 12th February 2019 in Brussels and opened by JPI Climate Central Secretariat. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Tuesday 12 February 2019 |
| INNOVA 3rd Ezine Urban Climate Adaptation ERA4CS project INNOVA has published the thrid e-zine, the story of the environmental and climate challenges in the Kiel Bay region on the Baltic shore of Germany. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Monday 21 January 2019 |
Recent documents
| ERA4CS projects e-brochure E-brochure of ERA4CS and Horizon 2020 projects was developed for the Networking event on 30 of November, 2017. Based on this outreach material the updated e-brochure of ERA4CS projects can be found by following this link: http://bit.ly/ERA4CSProjectBrochure |
ERA4CS Report on the retrospective evaluation of the call procedures The aim of this report (developed within WP 4, Task 4.2) is to provide an overview of the ERA4CS launched Joint Call, its scope and objectives, call topics, procedures and the results of the call. The analysis and evaluation of the call procedures are described and suggestions how to improve future calls developing better tools, methods and standards on how to launch and communicate the calls are compiled in the report. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |
| Report on mapping of ERA4CS member states’ national activities for climate services The aim of the report is to extend the mapping of climate services in all participating countries by collecting and labeling the various projects, programmes and agendas developed within each RFO and each RPO of the ERA4CS consortium to support identifying current strength and weaknesses of the European CS landscape and increase visibility of providers and their portfolios for
both users and providers. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |
| ERA4CS Additional Activities: Mapping of European and International Activities The process for this report was to first find relevant documents that describe strategies and plans of climate service actions from the ERA4CS partner network. In the next steps these documents or web resources were analysed for references to climate services or JPI Climate and how the initiative is being resourced. The editors finally drafted short summaries of this analysis into the texts of this report. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |
| The booklet of ERA4CS funded projects The booklet of ERA4CS funded projects for printing purposes now is available. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |