B-EPICC Training Workshop in Peru

Funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) and based at PIK’s Future Lab on Social Metabolism and Impacts, the B-EPICC project visited Lima, Peru from 11th to 19th August 2022, with the core purpose of providing a training workshop to local stakeholders around the extensive co-produced research that had been generated through the project since its commencement in 2018. Peru has been a partner country to the project since its inception and the project has vital links with the national Ministry for the Environment (MINAM), the National Water Authority (ANA), the National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology (SENAMHI), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and individual researchers and policy makers. Peru is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, influenced by the regularly recurring El Niño phenomenon, which impacts agricultural systems and water resources, and which ultimately affects communities by generating push factors contributing to human migration. In recent years, the B-EPICC project and its researchers have contributed to more reliable long-term El Niño forecasting, developed a novel high-resolution gridded precipitation data set for hydrological modelling of Peruvian (and Ecuadorian) watersheds (RAIN4PE), and made major inroads in evidencing how climate change affects human migration and displacement in Peru, as well as how to respond to this. The training workshop was conducted to share and debate with stakeholders and collaborators methodologies and tools developed through the project, as well as their application, not least in an effort to collaboratively work on further refining these and their usefulness. The event was opened by B-EPICC project lead, Dr. Fanny Thornton; the Head of the Development Cooperation Section at the German Embassy in Lima, Mr. Florian Theus; and Deputy Minister of Strategic Development of Natural Resources of the Minister of the Environment of Peru, Yamina Silva Vidal, Ph.D.