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Climateguide.fi - one portal for diverse climate change information online in September 2011

Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) and Aalto University / Helsinki University of Technology / Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (HUT/YTK) are co-operatively planning for a Climateguide.fi -portal. The portal organises diverse and fragmented climate change information into a more uniform format under one web-portal. By the same token, it aims at offering practical tools for local and municipal planning and decision-making. The portal provides means of examining local scale impact of climate change. Climateguide.fi is being created in a three year EU Life+ project (LIFE07 INF/FIN/000152 CCCRP) co-ordinated by the FMI.

Achievements of the project:

year 2009: design phase
February 2009: Press release (pdf)
June 2009: workshop on web tools for communicating climate change information (link to web page)
September 2009: Inception report to the European Commission (link to pdf-document)
September 2009: survey on user needs (link to pdf-document)
September 2009: detailed implementation plan (link to MS Excel-worksheet)
May 2010: a brochure and a poster (both in Finnish) at the Fifth National Climate Conference of the Municipalities
June 2010: Mid-term report to the European Commission (link to pdf-document)
June 2010: technical pilot version with a sample of the contents demonstrated, see the front page of the Finnish version of the Climateguide.fi (Ilmasto-opas.fi)
June 2010: first testing session of the pilot by officials of the City of Rovaniemi

Coming in the project:

September 2010: Climateguide.fi presented at the Municipality Fair
October 2010: Climateguide.fi presented at the Environment Fair
Dec 2010: a pilot version with substantial part of the contents and functionalities released
August 2011: Finnish version (Ilmasto-opas.fi) released
Sep-Dec 2011: regional and thematical workshops for local authorities and actors
December 2011: English (Climateguide.fi) and Swedish (Klimatguiden.fi) versions released

An easy-to-use web tool

Supporting the society and citizens is the starting point for the Climateguide.fi -portal. It will enhance general awareness and knowledge on climate change and related phenomena. Educational institutes could take advantage of the portal as a source of education material as well. The portal will be produced in Finnish, Swedish and English.

Structure and scope of the portal

The portal will consist of several web-tools to enlighten different viewpoints of climate change:

Climate Change Explained Wizard - an e-learning component to explain the background and mechanisms of climate change,
Maps, graphs and data wizard to illustrate the present and future climate and climate change impacts in Finland,
Community Response Wizard - a web-tool for local scale planning, decision making and actions of adaptation and mitigation in municipalities.

One portal for fragmented climate change information

Climate change information is produced by different actors. Combining the diverse information and assessing the reliability of it can be difficult for a layman. The climate change portal compiles and standardises fragmented climate change information to provide a more coherent picture of climate change. Within one portal, climate change data and information will be examinable and comparable.

Welcome to participate

We need citizens and representatives of local and regional authorities to test the portal! In addition to FMI, SYKE and TKK/YTK, also other research institutions are welcomed to participate in the content production!