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MACIS - Minimisation of and Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity

Summary information

Funding:FP6 - Specific Targeted Research Project
Total cost:1210000
Ec contribution:900000
Start date:2006-11-01
End date:2008-10-31
Duration:24 months
Coordinator:Ingolf Kühn (ingolf.kuehn@ufz.de,)
Organisation:Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Department of Community Ecology – Germany
Themes:Biological impacts; socio-economic consequences
Project name:MACIS - Minimisation of and Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity
Project summary:Abstract
MACIS will review and meta-analyse the existing projections of climate change impacts on biodiversity. It will assess the available options to prevent and minimise negative impacts for the EU25 up to 2050 and review the state-of-the-art on methods to assess the probable future impacts of climate change on biodiversity.
This includes the review of possible climate change adaptation and mitigation measures and their potential effect on future biodiversity. MACIS wants to further develop a series of biodiversity and habitat models that address biodiversity impacts, and are capable of calculating the consequences of the changes in the trends in drivers as specified by the narrative scenarios provided by the IPCC. MACIS will identify policy options at EU, Member State, regional and local levels to prevent and minimise negative impacts from climate change and from climate change adaptation and mitigation measures.
Project outputs:While not the focus of the project, the impacts of climate change on coastal biodiversity and related adaption and mitigation measures are addressed as part of the project activities. The project deliverables can be downloaded from the project website which also displays a list of project related publications.