SENSES

The SENSES project investigates potential socio-economic futures in the face of climate change and how this knowledge can be made accessible to a broader public. SENSES develops tools and approaches to make the new generation of climate change scenarios more comprehensible, culminating in a climate service for decision makers. Central needs are identified in a co-creation process between scientists and users. The results will be combined to a tailor-made, user determined Climate Scenario Toolkit including scenario visualization tools and co-creation techniques for three stakeholder groups:
1. National and international climate policy makers
2. Regional climate scenario users
3. Businesses, particularly financial businesses.

• One major finding in the project is that our stakeholders need staged access to climate change scenarios.Different levels of complexity of the scenario knowledge need to be provided, e.g. capacity building elements to include new user groups.

• Our co-production workshops showed that the combination of mitigation and impact scenarios hits an urgent need of stakeholdersto link emission and mitigation pathways to the potential implications of climate change.

• A great highlight is how relevant our scenarios are for the finance community.The TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures) initiative gave scenario driven risk assessment an enormous push. Our third workshop received so much interest that we had to broadcast parts of the workshop via Youtube.