To make climate scenarios work for decision-makers, an international team of researchers developed a comprehensive interactive online platform. It is the first of its kind to provide the tools to use those scenarios – from climate impacts to mitigation and energy options – to a broader public beyond science. The scenarios help policy makers and businesses, finance actors and civil society alike to assess the threat of global warming and ways to limit it.
The SENSES Toolkit is a unique collection of user-centred visualization tools of climate change scenario knowledge. It includes tools to learn about the scenario approach and its key insights, tools to explore climate change scenarios, and practical guidelines of how to use climate change scenarios for three key user groups.It builds on co-production techniques of relevant and useful climate change scenario knowledge.
The aim of SENSES is to provide tools for better assessment and application of climate change scenario knowledge. The interactive approach aims to connect users to the original scenario data and to minimize the risk that the extracted information is misinterpreted and/or perceived as intransparent. Thus, an essential objective of SENSES is that the developed tools are understandable, accessible, trustworthy, and useful for the stakeholders.