Programme Objectives

The main objectives are:

• To offer the Dutch government, the private sector and other stakeholders a clustered, high-quality and accessible knowledge infrastructure on the interface of climate change and spatial planning
• To engage a dialogue between stakeholders and scientists in order to support the development of spatially explicit adaptation and mitigation strategies that anticipate for climate change and contribute to a safe, sustainable and resilient socio-economic infrastructure in the Netherlands.

Examples of addressed scientific objectives:

• Increased insight in cloud and aerosol interactions
• High quality climate scenarios, suitable for use in various impact assessment applications
• New multi-gas approaches to assess GHG emissions on ecosystems level
• A Prototype of a multi-platform monitoring system for land use bound GHG emissions
• Development of spatial decision support systems for cross-sectoral adaptation strategies
• Innovation of methodologies to assess Costs and (ancillary) benefits for adaptation and mitigation