The URBANPROOF toolkit was developed by GET in the framework of the LIFE URBANPROOF project “Urban Municipalities for Climate Protection”, which is co-financed by the LIFE program for Environment and Climate Action (2014-2020). GET participated as a subcontractor in this research project and was responsible for the development of the toolbox according to the methodology and data provided by LIFE URBANPROOF partners.

The URBANPROOF toolkit is a powerful decision support system aimed to enable better informed decision making for climate change adaptation planning. It is a web application that provides access to climate data sets in the form of interactive maps, graphs or reports. The application utilizes GET’s technology and know-how related to the management, display and analysis of spatial data.

In specific, the user is guided though the different features of the toolkit in order to gain insight into the climate change impacts to the urban environment, to explore and evaluate the available adaptation options and to investigate the effect of adaptation interventions in increasing climate change resilience.

The toolkit consists of 5 interdependent modules/stages which altogether comprise the adaptation process:

• Stage 1: Information on climate change. Explore through interactive charts, information on climatic projections based on the greenhouse concentration levels of two Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP 4.5, RCP 8.5).
• Stage 2: Impact assessment. Explore the climate change impacts on the urban environment and gain insight into the individual parameters (physical, structural & socio-economic) contributing to the creation of these impacts.
• Stage 3: Exploration and evaluation of adaptation options. Explore available adaptation measures and their evaluation scores against a set of criteria OR provide your own evaluation of the adaptation measures.
• Stage 4: Development of the adaptation strategy. Prioritization of adaptation measures based on the score they attained at Stage 3. The measures that gathered the highest scoring may be included in the local adaptation strategies of the municipalities.
• Stage 5: Monitoring and Review. Investigate the effect of the implementation of adaptation measures in increasing the resilience of a municipality to the examined impacts.

The tool is currently used to carry out impact assessment and adaptation for each urban municipality in Italy, Greece and Cyprus. Higher resolution data are provided for the municipalities of Reggio Emilia (Italy), Peristeri (Greece), Strovolos and Lakatamia (Cyprus) which are partners of the LIFE URBANPROOF project.