adelphi research gemeinnützige GmbH
adelphi research is an independent think tank for environmental and development policy research and analysis. Founded in 2001, the research institution has introduced new findings and ideas into politics. With application-oriented research and concrete proposals for action, adelphi research promotes sustainable development and helps improve environmental and development policy in practice.
adelphi’s climate adaptation team is working on projects for German ministries and the EU Commission among others – always true to the motto “avoid the unmanageable and manage the unavoidable”. The team deals with the impacts of climate change. The goals are to contribute to reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience or adaptive capacity through scientific analyses for the identification of climate impacts and assessment of adaptation options, strategic advice on the design of political processes, the establishment of this new policy field and communication and exchange formats to motivate or empower policy-makers, businesses and local authorities to act.
This requires activities at different levels: research needs data and methods for the assessment of climate impacts, politics needs to mainstream the topic in legal,
economic and planning instruments, and implementation measures.
Role in the Project
By accompanying two businesses in preparing climate risk assessments as part of their EU taxonomy/CSRD reporting, we provide an overview on the sources that are being used for the assessments, from local to national to European sources. Furthermore, we shall document important data gaps and highlight possible difficulties when combining the different datasets during the assessments, e.g. problems because of different temporal or spatial scales. Strategies to make the most valuable data FAIR are developed, using a vocabulary that is consistent with the requirements in the EU taxonomy/CSRD.
The goals are to:
1) provide insights into data used and needed by businesses and consultants to perform climate risk assessments for reporting under EU taxonomy/CSRD for sustainable activities;
2) collect local hazard data that is being used in such analyses;
3) improve accessibility to key datasets for climate risk analyses under the EU taxonomy/CSRD.