ISIpedia

ISIpedia develops the ISIpedia online encyclopedia and coordinates the research within ISIMIP: The Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project. Comprehensive information about the impacts of climate change is essential for decision makers when considering response options to projected climate-change. These options range from adjusting international mitigation targets to planning regional adaptation measures. They include informing the implementation of both adaptation and mitigation measures.

The central product of this project is the ISIpedia open inter-sectoral impacts encyclopedia. This encyclopedia will act as a hub for multi-model, policy-relevant, climate-impact simulations and assessments. The ISIpedia encyclopedia is a prototype stakeholder-driven climate service to assist stakeholders to respond to evolving future climate-change scenarios.

Work structure within the ISIpedia project.

Highlights

• ISIpedia provides access to the assessments and syntheses of national-level climate-impact information: historical observations, present-day conditions, projections on near-term to far-term future developments.
• Model limitations are transparently documented and  comparisons between historical simulations and observations are provided for model evaluation
• ISIpedia provides regionally-resolved visualisations of projections of climate-impacts for important sector-specific and cross-sectoral indicators, such as land area affected by droughts or population affected by crop failure.

Keywords / hashtags

Keywords: Climate-change impacts; Cross-sectoral simulations; Policy-relevant assessments; User-driven climate-impacts indicators; Visualisations of climate-impacts projections

Hashtags: #ISIpedia #climateimpacts #ISIMIP

Potential societal impacts

Information about the impacts of climate change that will be provided by ISIpedia will help for example decision makers while considering response options to projected climate change. Thereby ISIpedia can contribute to the implementation of international agreements as the Paris Agreement. ISIpedia addresses not only decision makers. Its information about climate impacts can also help a variety of stakeholders from civil society with their work on responding to climate change.

The role of JPI Climate

JPI Climate plays a central role in the implementation of ISIpedia. It is through the joint efforts of numerous European states to harmonize research activities and enable cross-border research that an endeavour like ISIpedia becomes possible. ISIMIP itself brings together over 100 modelling groups worldwide.