GRACCIE responds to the pressing social demand to understand climate change as well as its environmental consequences.

What can we do?
The project aims at examining the main mechanisms driving climate change, including abrupt changes, and its environmental effects, e.g. changes in coastlines and mountains, redistribution of contaminants in marine and terrestrial ecosystems, increase of disturbances such as extreme climate events and wildfires, and “forced” redistribution or adaptation by marine and continental organisms, which are foreseen as the most relevant in the Iberian Peninsula and surrounding areas.

GRACCIE aims to deliver expert knowledge and predicting models that can assist in the adaptation of our society to the short-, mid- and long-term consequences of climate change. In addition, based on the expected results, mitigation and restoration strategies will be proposed within the context of the UN Climate Change Convention and the Kyoto Protocol, with a special emphasis on the fate of the Iberian Peninsula.