Klima 2050 will reduce the societal risks associated with climate changes and enhanced precipitation and flood water exposure within the built environment.
Klima 2050 is a Centre for Research-based Innovation (SFI) financed by the Research Council of Norway and its consortium partners. The SFI status enables long-term research in close collaboration with trade and industry, as well as other research partners aiming to strengthen Norway’s innovation ability and competitiveness within climate adaptation. The composition of the consortium is vital in order to be able to reduce the societal risks associated with climate change.
The title for the annual raport for 2018 is: Innovations for reduced societal risk towards 2050.
The Research Centre Klima 2050’s ambitious goal is to reduce the societal risk associated with climate change due to increased rainfall. The ambition requires solutions on several levels: Regulations, municipal plans, and building processes, robust technology, nature-based solutions and incentives, and business models. All of these levels are described in the report, so is the status of projects Klima 2050 is involved in.
Nature-based solutions
There is a need to base future solutions on natural processes. We are grateful that two of the projects Storm Aqua is a part of, Høvringen in Trondheim and FV 505 in Sandnes (see page 33) through our work in Skjæveland Gruppen, are described in the report. These are examples of research that is being scaled up through pilot projects.
