ACTUATE

Climate Adaptation Scenarios To Reduce the Impacts of Extreme Events

Co-PI & contact person: Dr. Benjamin Fersch
Project scientist: Luca Glawion
Project duration: 2025 – 2027
Funding organization: Helmholtz Innopool Project

Project description:

ACTUATE explores climate adaptation scenarios to better understand and reduce the social, economic, and environmental impacts of future extreme weather events. Using a hierarchy of numerical and machine learning-based modelling techniques, the project investigates the impacts of events like extreme rainfall, droughts, and heat waves, with a focus on their effects on cities and agriculture in Europe. Key questions include how to reduce heat stress and improve air quality in urban areas and how resilient different farming strategies are to climate extremes. Bringing together researchers from five Helmholtz centres, ACTUATE contributes to major climate research initiatives and helps improve adaptation measures for a changing world.