After four years of successful work, the EPICC Project has received a prolongation for two more years and the budget increased by almost two million euros. The project will continue until the end of 2023. This allows EPICC to further pursue the goal of strengthening resilience against disruptive whether phenomena and climate change at national, local and regional level in its partner countries. With Brazil and Ethiopia, two new countries will join India, Peru and Tanzania as EPICC’s partner countries. Furthermore, an additional module will be integrated into our project: “Biodiversity and Forest”. The research on biodiversity and forest aims to highlight the importance of intact forest ecosystems for local populations as well as global climate change and complements EPICC’s interdisciplinary research on climate, hydrology and water resources, agriculture as well as climate-induced migration.
EPICC is part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI), an initiative supported by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV). The prolongation enables a further contribution to apply climate research results in policy, business and societal decisions in the project’s partner countries. As a capacity building project focusing on co-production, the project aims to achieve this on a collaborative basis. Thus, we identify with local partners and stakeholders how sound climate models and related tools and services can be tailored to user-specific needs and priorities.
