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On November 8th, 2019 SOCLIMPACT held its second Working Group Workshop where the main local actors of the blue economy of the islands met to share knowledge in critical areas and to look for the most appropriate ways to take advantage of the project.

Dr Carmelo León, Dr Sergio Moreno and Dr Sergio Suárez were in charge of welcoming the event and introducing the project and the methodology of the session. Besides, they shared inspiring ideas on how we can adapt and what opportunities may arise in the face of the already declared climate emergency in the Canary Islands

Participants were divided into four working groups corresponding to maritime transport, aquaculture, renewable energies and tourism where they had the opportunity to address the risks and impacts being experienced in each of these sectors. They particularly stressed the importance of extrapolating the project studies to policy decision-making and showed great interest in sharing data and supporting the project.

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Grabación de evento online que reunió a miembros del equipo de trabajo del proyecto y expertos del sector de la Energía del panorama regional y nacional español, los cuales expusieron las principales conclusiones extraídas de los análisis desarrollados en SOCLIMPACT y los desafíos a los que se enfrentan las regiones insulares españolas para alcanzar el objetivo comunitario de descarbonización de los sistemas energéticos.

Expertos del sector discutirán sobre las conclusiones extraídas de los análisis de SOCLIMPACT sobre las energías marinas en el contexto del Cambio Climático.

Carmen García Galindo (ULPGC, Spain) explains the Soclimpact project.

In this video, SOCLIMPACT presents the project, its main goals, the sectors and partners involves, how we work and why we exist.

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In this video, we briefly explain the concept, scope, goals and main outcomes of the Soclimpact project.

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The warming of the climate system is unequivocal and continued emission of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes. Islands are particularly vulnerable to Climate Change (CC) consequences, but the coarse spatial resolution of available projections makes it difficult to derive valid statements for islands. Moreover, science-based information about the economic impacts of CC in marine and maritime sectors is scarce, and current economic models lack of solid non-market assessment. Policy makers must have accurate information about likely impact chains and about the costs and benefits of possible strategies to implement efficient measures. SOCLIMPACT aims at modelling downscaled CC effects and their socioeconomic impacts in European islands for 2030–2100, in the context of the EU Blue Economy sectors, and assesses corresponding decarbonisation and adaptation pathways, complementing current available projections for Europe, and nourishing actual economic models with non-market assessment, by:

Developing a thorough understanding on how CC will impact the EU islands located in different regions of the world.(Cyprus, Malta, Fehmarn, Balearic, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Crete, Azores, Madeira, Canary, Martinique and Guadalupe)
Contributing to the improvement of the economic valuation of climate impacts by adopting revealed and stated preference methods.
Increasing the effectiveness of the economic modelling of climate impact chains, through the implementation of an integrated methodological framework (GINFORS, GEM-E3 and non-market indicators).
Facilitating climate-related policy decision making for Blue Growth, by ranking and mapping the more appropriate mitigation and adaptation strategies.
Delivering accurate information to policy makers, practitioners and other relevant stakeholders.
SOCLIMPACT addresses completely this Work Programme providing advances in the economic valuation of climate induced impacts, and in climate and economic models, allowing downscaled projections of complex impact chains, and facilitating the resilience capacity of these vulnerable lands.

Not only does Dr Carmelo León shed some light on how Climate Change is affecting tourism but also makes his stance on how to face this environmental challenge.
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Dr Salvador Suárez, from Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias (ITC.GobCan) explains how Climate Change affects energy consumption and generation. He claims that there could be an important financial repercussion if marine renewable energy plants are affected by strong winds and storms, which is still considered an under-investigated research area. It makes necessary to analyse these climatic events in terms of risk investment and life span.

Other important climate hazards that affect the energy sector are the increase in air temperature and extreme events. In this regard, one of the aims of the Soclimpact project is to conduct a systematic review of previous research assessing the economic losses caused by these hazards.

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Director of Research, Development and Innovation of ITC and SOCLIMPACT partner talks about the main challenges that the Canary Islands are facing as regards the massive penetration of Marine RenewablevEnergy Systems into their grids. He was willing to express his opinion by giving credit to weather forecasting, energy storage and demand management in such a fragile territory as
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Ezequiel Navío explains how the Canary Islands are currently suffering the impacts of Climate Change, and which economic sectors have been most affected.

In order to analyse the reactions of tourists to the impacts of climate change and the preferences for adaptation policies, several hypothetical situations were posed to 300 tourists visiting Canary Islands whereby possible CC impacts were outlined for the island (i.e., beach erosion, infectious diseases, forest fires, marine biodiversity loss, heat waves, etc.).
Firstly, tourists had to indicate whether they would keep their plans to stay at the island or find an alternate destination if the impact had occurred, which allows predictions of the effects on tourism arrivals to be made for each island. Secondly, tourists were asked to choose between various policy measures funded through an additional payment per day of stay – the tourists’ choices being an expression of their preferences for attributes/policies. To estimate the results, the ASC-Logit model was run by using the Stata software.
In general, data confirms that tourists are highly averse to risks of infectious diseases becoming more widespread (82.30% of tourists would change destination). Moreover, they are not willing to visit islands where marine wildlife has disappeared to a large extent (71.30%) or where wildfires occur more often (69%). On the other hand, policies related to marine habitat restoration (10.7€/day), water supply reinforcement (8€/day), and land habitats restoration (5.5€/day) are the most valued, on average, by tourists visiting these islands.
Although climate change impacts are outside the control of tourism practitioners and policy-makers, they can nevertheless utilise this knowledge to improve the predictability of the effect that certain adaptation policies and risk management strategies, and develop their plans accordingly.

In order to analyse the reactions of tourists to the impacts of climate change and the preferences for adaptation policies, several hypothetical situations were posed to 224 tourists visiting Crete whereby possible CC impacts were outlined for the island (i.e., beach erosion, infectious diseases, forest fires, marine biodiversity loss, heat waves, etc.).
Firstly, tourists had to indicate whether they would keep their plans to stay at the island or find an alternate destination if the impact had occurred, which allows predictions of the effects on tourism arrivals to be made for each island. Secondly, tourists were asked to choose between various policy measures funded through an additional payment per day of stay – the tourists’ choices being an expression of their preferences for attributes/policies. To estimate the results, the ASC-Logit model was run by using the Stata software.

Although climate change impacts are outside the control of tourism practitioners and policy-makers, they can nevertheless utilise this knowledge to improve the predictability of the effect that certain adaptation policies and risk management strategies, and develop their plans accordingly.

In order to analyse the reactions of tourists to the impacts of climate change and the preferences for adaptation policies, several hypothetical situations were posed to 252 tourists visiting Madeira whereby possible CC impacts were outlined for the island (i.e., beach erosion, infectious diseases, forest fires, marine biodiversity loss, heat waves, etc.).
Firstly, tourists had to indicate whether they would keep their plans to stay at the island or find an alternate destination if the impact had occurred, which allows predictions of the effects on tourism arrivals to be made for each island. Secondly, tourists were asked to choose between various policy measures funded through an additional payment per day of stay – the tourists’ choices being an expression of their preferences for attributes/policies. To estimate the results, the ASC-Logit model was run by using the Stata software.
In general, data confirms that tourists are highly averse to risks of infectious disease (84.90% of tourists would change destination). Moreover, they are not willing to visit islands where marine wildlife has disappeared to a large extent (80.2%) or where temperature becomes uncomfortably hot (69.8%). In addition, policies related to marine habitat restoration (10.4€/day), water supply reinforcement (9.2€/day), and land habitats restoration (6.9€/day) are the most valued, on average, by tourists visiting this island.
Although climate change impacts are outside the control of tourism practitioners and policy-makers, they can nevertheless utilise this knowledge to improve the predictability of the effect that certain adaptation policies and risk management strategies, and develop their plans accordingly.

In order to analyse the reactions of tourists to the impacts of climate change and the preferences for adaptation policies, several hypothetical situations were posed to 196 tourists visiting the Fehmarn island whereby possible CC impacts were outlined for the island (i.e., beach erosion, infectious diseases, forest fires, marine biodiversity loss, heat waves, etc.).
Firstly, tourists had to indicate whether they would keep their plans to stay at the island or find an alternate destination if the impact had occurred, which allows predictions of the effects on tourism arrivals to be made for each island. Secondly, tourists were asked to choose between various policy measures funded through an additional payment per day of stay – the tourists’ choices being an expression of their preferences for attributes/policies. To estimate the results, the ASC-Logit model was run by using the Stata software.
In general, data confirms that tourists are highly averse to the risk of marine wildlife disappearing to a large extent (83% of tourists would change destination). Moreover, they are not willing to visit islands where beaches largely disappear (78.40%) or where infectious diseases become more widespread (73%). Consequently, policies related to water supply reinforcement (10.4€/day), marine habitat restoration (9.3€/day), and beaches protection (7€/day) are the most valued, on average, by tourists visiting this island.
Although climate change impacts are outside the control of tourism practitioners and policy-makers, they can nevertheless utilise this knowledge to improve the predictability of the effect that certain adaptation policies and risk management strategies, and develop their plans accordingly.

In order to analyse the reactions of tourists to the impacts of climate change and the preferences for adaptation policies, several hypothetical situations were posed to 253 tourists visiting Balearic Islands whereby possible CC impacts were outlined for the island (i.e., beach erosion, infectious diseases, forest fires, marine biodiversity loss, heat waves, etc.).
Firstly, tourists had to indicate whether they would keep their plans to stay at the island or find an alternate destination if the impact had occurred, which allows predictions of the effects on tourism arrivals to be made for each island. Secondly, tourists were asked to choose between various policy measures funded through an additional payment per day of stay – the tourists’ choices being an expression of their preferences for attributes/policies. To estimate the results, the conditional logit model was run by using the Stata software.
In general, data confirms that tourists are highly averse to risks of infectious diseases becoming more widespread (98.40% of tourists would change destination). Moreover, they are not willing to visit the islands is beaches largely disappear (91.30%) or if the temperature becomes uncomfortably hot to them (87.40%). On the other hand, policies related to coastal infrastructures protection (1.2€/day), infectious diseases prevention (1€/day), water supply reinforcement (1€/day), and heat waves protection (1€/day) are the most valued, on average, by tourists visiting these islands.
Although climate change impacts are outside the control of tourism practitioners and policy-makers, they can nevertheless utilise this knowledge to improve the predictability of the effect that certain adaptation policies and risk management strategies, and develop their plans accordingly.

In order to analyse the reactions of tourists to the impacts of climate change and the preferences for adaptation policies, several hypothetical situations were posed to 255 tourists visiting Malta whereby possible CC impacts were outlined for the island (i.e., beach erosion, infectious diseases, forest fires, marine biodiversity loss, heat waves, etc.).
Firstly, tourists had to indicate whether they would keep their plans to stay at the island or find an alternate destination if the impact had occurred, which allows predictions of the effects on tourism arrivals to be made for each island. Secondly, tourists were asked to choose between various policy measures funded through an additional payment per day of stay – the tourists’ choices being an expression of their preferences for attributes/policies. To estimate the results, the conditional logit model was run by using the Stata software.
In general, data confirms that tourists are highly averse to risks of infectious diseases becoming more widespread (75.30% of tourists would change destination). Moreover, they are not willing to visit islands where water is scarce for leisure activities (67.20%) or where marine wildlife has disappeared to a large extent (62.10%). On the other hand, policies related to the prevention of infectious diseases (9.2€/day), water supply reinforcement (8.2€/day), and marine habitats protection (5.7€/day) are the most valued, on average, by tourists visiting this island.
Although climate change impacts are outside the control of tourism practitioners and policy-makers, they can nevertheless utilise this knowledge to improve the predictability of the effect that certain adaptation policies and risk management strategies, and develop their plans accordingly.

In order to analyse the reactions of tourists to the impacts of climate change and the preferences for adaptation policies, several hypothetical situations were posed to 200 tourists visiting the West Indies whereby possible CC impacts were outlined for the island (i.e., beach erosion, infectious diseases, forest fires, marine biodiversity loss, heat waves, etc.).
Firstly, tourists had to indicate whether they would keep their plans to stay at the island or find an alternate destination if the impact had occurred, which allows predictions of the effects on tourism arrivals to be made for each island. Secondly, tourists were asked to choose between various policy measures funded through an additional payment per day of stay – the tourists’ choices being an expression of their preferences for attributes/policies. To estimate the results, the conditional logit model was run by using the Stata software.
In general, data confirms that tourists are highly averse to risks of infectious diseases becoming more widespread (55.50% of tourists would change destination). Moreover, they are not willing to visit islands where beaches largely disappear (38%) or where water is scarce for leisure activities (34.50%). In addition, policies related to beaches protection (9.2€/day), land habitats restoration (19.1€/day), and the prevention of infectious diseases (7.9€/day) are the most valued, on average, by tourists visiting these islands.
Although climate change impacts are outside the control of tourism practitioners and policy-makers, they can nevertheless utilise this knowledge to improve the predictability of the effect that certain adaptation policies and risk management strategies, and develop their plans accordingly.

In order to analyse the reactions of tourists to the impacts of climate change and the preferences for adaptation policies, several hypothetical situations were posed to 290 tourists visiting Sicily whereby possible CC impacts were outlined for the island (i.e., beach erosion, infectious diseases, forest fires, marine biodiversity loss, heat waves, etc.).
Firstly, tourists had to indicate whether they would keep their plans to stay at the island or find an alternate destination if the impact had occurred, which allows predictions of the effects on tourism arrivals to be made for each island. Secondly, tourists were asked to choose between various policy measures funded through an additional payment per day of stay – the tourists’ choices being an expression of their preferences for attributes/policies. To estimate the results, the conditional logit model was run by using the Stata software.
In general, data confirms that tourists are highly averse to risks of infectious diseases becoming more widespread (75.30% of tourists would change destination). Moreover, they are not willing to visit islands where the cultural heritage is damaged due to weather conditions (52.40%), where wildfires occure more often (52.10%) or where water is scarce for leisure activities (52.10%). Consequently, policies related to the prevention of infectious diseases (3.5€/day), the protection of the cultural heritage (3.5€/day), and the marine habitats restoration (3.2€/day) are the most valued, on average, by tourists visiting this island.
Although climate change impacts are outside the control of tourism practitioners and policy-makers, they can nevertheless utilise this knowledge to improve the predictability of the effect that certain adaptation policies and risk management strategies, and develop their plans accordingly.

Social networks and website: Gaining positioning and visibility
Laura Gaspar, ULPGC (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria); Tamara Ventura, CREATIVICA

SOCLIMPACT Data: Differences and profits for end users
Yen Lam, ULPGC (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)

Zenodo Community: Guidelines and inventory of publications
Yoelma Rodríguez, Ramboll

REIS: Regional Exchange Information System – IT tool
Tanausú Zumaquero, CREATIVICA

See full Webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DGp0vbJIhg

Climate Change outlook for the Blue Economy sectors: Hazard indicators at Islands level
Gianmaria Sannino, ENEA (Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, L’energia e lo sviluppo económico sostenible)

See full webinar: https://youtu.be/awzS7rgIShA

Macroeconomic implications of climate change impacts on EU islands.
Zoi Vrontisi, E3Modelling (Energy Economy Environment) and Mark Meyer, GWS (The Institute of Economic Structures Research)

See full webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTlYFTg4hnA&feature=youtu.be