UNCHAIN

UNCHAIN aims at further developing a practical and manageable climate change risk assessment framework based on the concept of Impact Chains. UNCHAIN will address, support and integrate a broad array of stakeholders. Its audiences are local authorities, private businesses, private home owners, and sub-national and national authorities in their capacity of supporting and facilitating local policy-making.

• This project will further develop the approach by introducing six methodological innovations:1. to cover also the possible need for long-term and large-scale efforts of societal transformation 2. to refine a structured method of co-production of knowledge and integrate this into impact modelling 3. to develop and test an applicable framework for analysing how societal change can affect local climate change vulnerabilities 4. to develop and test a standardized analytical framework for addressing uncertainties involved in local decision-making on climate change adaptation. 5. to include the trans-national impacts of climate change 6. to link mitigation and adaptation in climate risk and vulnerability assessments.