Research Methodology

The G20 Climate Risk Atlas consolidates available literature and data about the G20 countries, providing a comprehensive picture of the historical trends and future changes in climate. The information is sourced from enhanced intercomparison modelling exercises, data analysis, the use of indicators (such as those developed by Enel Foundation), and surveys of the most recent scientific literature, including published peer-reviewed papers, technical reports, and open access material from Horizon 2020 projects. 

Although the methodologies used by different studies are highly heterogeneous, ranging from modelling comparison to statistical analysis, a significant effort was made to harmonize these findings and present them within an internally consistent framework. 

For more detailed information, download the full methodological notes and references. 

All the authors and the members of the Scientific Committee of the Atlas are scientists at the CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, exceptions and any further affiliations are indicated in the following list..

Scientific Committee

Donatella Spano¹, Valentina Bacciu², Francesco Bosello, Giulia Galluccio, Simona Masina, Serena Marras¹, Paola Mercogliano, Valentina Mereu, Jaroslav Mysiak, Monia Santini.

Authors by sectors

Climate

Paola Mercogliano, Alfredo Reder, Marta Ellena

Ocean

Momme Butenschön, Tomas Lovato

Coasts

Marcello Sano, Marco Cadau, Remi Harris, Silvia Torresan

Water

Marco Cadau, Marcello Sano, Silvia Torresan

Agriculture

Antonio Trabucco, Valentina Mereu, Antoine Libert, Marta Debolini, Ramkumar Tharmananthan, Alì Didevarasl, Muhammad Faizan Aslam, Mauro Lo Cascio

Forests

Valentina Bacciu², Sergio Noce, Josè Maria Costa Saura, Claudio Ribotta, Costantino Sirca¹

Urban

Margaretha Breil, Katie Johnson

Health

Shouro Dasgupta

Energy

Andrea Bigano, Aisling Sealy Phelan, Enrica De Cian, Francesco Pietro Colelli, Shouro Dasgupta

Economic Impacts

Francesco Bosello, Andrea Bigano, Aisling Sealy Phelan, Alessandra Santini, Shouro Dasgupta

Policy

Giulia Galluccio, Eugenio Sini, Eleonora Cogo, Carlo Papa³, Mirko Armiento³, Claudio Pregagnoli³, Nicolò Sartori³.

Editorial design

Element6, Mauro Buonocore

Graphics design

Element6

¹ CMCC and Università di Sassari, ² CMCC and CNR-Istituto per la BioEconomia, ³Enel Foundation

How to cite this work:

Spano D., Armiento M., Aslam M.F., Bacciu V., Bigano A., Bosello F., Breil M., Butenschön M., Cadau M., Cogo E., Colelli F. P., Costa Saura J.M., Dasgupta S., De Cian E., Debolini M., Didevarasl A., Ellena M., Galluccio G., Harris R., Johnson K., Libert A., Lo Cascio M., Lovato T., Marras S., Masina S., Mercogliano P., Mereu V., Mysiak J., Noce S., Papa C., Phelan A.S., Pregagnoli C., Reder A., Ribotta C., Sano M., Santini A., Santini M., Sartori N., Sini E., Sirca C., Tharmananthan R., Torresan S., Trabucco A., “G20 Climate Risk Atlas. Impacts, policy and economics in the G20”, 2021, DOI: 10.25424/cmcc/g20_climaterisk