Abstract
Specific climate adaptation and resilience measures can be efficiently designed and implemented at regional and local levels. Climate and environmental databases are critical for achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and for efficiently planning and implementing appropriate adaptation measures. Available federated and distributed databases can serve as necessary starting points for municipalities to identify needs, prioritize resources, and allocate investments, taking into account often tight budget constraints. High-quality geospatial, climate, and environmental data are now broadly available and remote sensing data, e.g., Copernicus services, will be critical. There are forward-looking approaches to use these datasets to derive forecasts for optimizing urban planning processes for local governments. On the municipal level, however, the existing data have only been used to a limited extent. There are no adequate tools for urban planning with which remote sensing data can be merged and meaningfully combined with local data and further processed and applied in municipal planning and decision-making. Therefore, our project CoKLIMAx aims at the development of new digital products, advanced urban services, and procedures, such as the development of practical technical tools that capture different remote sensing and in-situ data sets for validation and further processing. CoKLIMAx will be used to develop a scalable toolbox for urban planning to increase climate resilience. Focus areas of the project will be water (e.g., soil sealing, stormwater drainage, retention, and flood protection), urban (micro)climate (e.g., heat islands and air flows), and vegetation (e.g., greening strategy, vegetation monitoring/vitality). To this end, new digital process structures will be embedded in local government to enable better policy decisions for the future.
Highlights
55% of the global population lives in cities—with a projected percentage of 68% in 2050 [1]
An application programming interface (API) enables users to automate their interactions with the Climate Data Store (CDS) and allows direct integration of CDS offerings and functions into software tools
A relatively wide range of climate information and services and the articulated need for climate information and services from adaptation practitioners exist, studies [44] reveal that municipal users have adopted them only to a limited extent [45,46,47]
Summary
55% of the global population lives in cities—with a projected percentage of 68% in 2050 [1]. Governments could design and implement concrete measures for climate adaptation and climate resilience, efficiently at the municipal level. Urban land use planning, environmental planning, municipal landscaping, etc., play a crucial role in mitigating or minimizing the risks and negative consequences of the climate crisis [15]. For viable economic planning and implementation of appropriate measures to minimize climate crisis-related impairments and hazards, sophisticated knowledge of environmental and climatic parameters and their anticipated changes are of utmost importance. The timeliness, quality, suitability, and availability/usability of the available climate and environmental data are determining factors for the ability of cities and municipalities to act, and are of central importance for the planning and justification of climate resilience measures, which usually have to be designed and implemented under tight budgetary constraints and complex boundary conditions [16,17]. The implementation of remote sensing and imagery techniques and their secondary applications for monitoring and detecting the effects of extreme weather events and their impact on the built environment is still underdeveloped [19]
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