The Climate Change – Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation research group (CC-IAM)
September 2007
The CC-IAM group of the Faculty of Sciences/University of Lisbon convened and organized an international conference on Climate Change Impacts on Tourism. The conference was part of the CLITOP project and took place in Lisbon on the 7th and 8th of September.
This event covered the emerging research area of climate change and tourism, with special emphasis on:
- Climate and Tourism: Trends and Future Scenarios
- Tourism Related Energy Demand Changes under Climate Change
- Implications of Thermal Comfort and Extreme Events in Tourism
- Climate Change Impacts on Tourism Resources
- Adaptation Measures and Socio-economic Implications for Climate Changes on Tourism
Programme and presentations can be found at: www.siam.fc.ul.pt/clitop
Portugal’s SIAM Project
December 2006
In Portugal the second report of the project Scenario’s, Impact and Adaptation Measures (SIAM II) has been published in the form of a book. The public presentation was chaired by the President, and the Minister for the Environment made an address to the public during the meeting.
The new report addresses the impact of climate change on continental Portugal and the Acores and Madeira Islands on 8 socio-economic sectors in an integrated way, using the same GCMs and downscale models as the SIAM I report.
The eight socio economic sectors are: water resources, coastal zones, agriculture, human health, tourism, energy, forests and biodiversity and fisheries. There are also two additional components: an Outreach project and a Case-Study.
The former involved a series of outreach sessions held across the country in Beja, Bragança, Covilhã, Ílhavo, Olhão, Peniche and Porto, in which the impacts of and adaptation measures to climate change upon locally relevant socio-economic sectors were discussed with a total of 125 representatives of government, academia, environmental NGOs, industry, and other representatives of civil society.
The case-study component, focusing predominantly on the Sado Estuary, sought to apply the general methodology of project SIAM (climate scenarios as an input to each sector's impact assessment) at a smaller geographic scale. The intention was to provide responses to decision makers in the public sector, at a scale compatible with their decision making processes. The Sado Estuary was chosen as it is a geographic area where several socioeconomic and biophysical factors intersect, thus providing a good test for the methodology at a smaller scale.