Pyrenean Climate Change Observatory

Summary

The objective of the Pyrenean Climate Change Observatory is to monitor and understand how climate change affects the mountainous bioregion of the Pyrenees, and to help it to confront climatic changes with decision-making tools. The observatory also supports demonstrative adaptation experiences. The OPCC platform is the main tool and makes available to the general public classified and georeferenced information on the effects of climate change on topics such as past and present climate, future climate, natural risks, tourism, agro-pastoralism, energy, flora, fauna, forests, sensitive high mountain ecosystems and water resources. For each topic, a broad overview is provided of the variables related to the future impacts of climate change in the region, as well as recommendations on how to deal with these changes together with good practices developed in the territory. Similarly, each territory has aggregated information and documents on specific local directives and guidelines. The website contains a geoportal, which allows users to map various variables according to climate change scenarios. Among other tools, users can participate in citizen science projects and contribute their findings, knowledge and research activities collaboratively. Finally, the OPCC portal reports and collects news and events relevant to the Pyrenean region.

Host organisation: Pyrenean Climate Change Observatory

Launch date: 2014

Update status: Ongoing

Funding: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the Interreg programme V-A Spain-France-Andorra (POCTEFA 2014-2020). The OPCC2 project is carried out also with the support of the Fundación Biodiversidad of the Ministry of Ecological Transition of Spain, the Occitanie Region and the French National Fund of Regional Development. 

Team: The OPCC team is responsible for managing the platform and coordinating with the technical maintenance team. Additionally, they oversee content management, ensuring quality control for all contributions and ensuring translation into 5 languages.

Main functions

• Climate change impacts per sector in the Pyrenees
• Good practices developed in the Pyrenees
• Geoportal and mapping the impact on various sectors according to climate scenarios
• Compilation of resources, documents, guides, and videos to support adaptation actions
• Collection of adaptation news in the region
• Information on the different projects developed in which the OPCC is participating Connection with other platforms such as citizen science

Intended audiences

Citizens, regional and local communities, businesses in the Pyrenees and the scientific community

Why the platform was established

The platform was established to monitor and understand climate change at the mountain range scale of the Pyrenees. Developing tools and methodologies to aid the adaptation process.