The ongoing climate change has widespread and consequential impacts all over the world including increasing frequency and intensity of extreme climate and weather events. Despite positive impacts in some regions of Europe, Russia and Turkey, future warming will create multiple risks for natural and economic systems, in particular for agriculture and forestry sectors. Decision-makers and stakeholders are interested in a comprehensive, scientifically based assessment of the consequences of observed and future climate change, therefore the main goal of the AFTER project is impact assessment of climate changes and climate extremes on agriculture and forestry in the Europe-Russia-Turkey Region.

AFTER aims at bridging the usability gap between state-of-the-art regional climate information and the demand for information at regional scale for climate change impact assessment and adaptation. The main objective of AFTER is to provide state-of-the-art climate information to assess: (i) impact of ongoing and projected global climate change and subsequent changes in climate extremes on the agriculture and forestry in selected regions of Europe, Russia and Turkey; and (ii) the level of contribution, which these changes in agriculture and forestry can provide to climate change mitigation and adaptation due to existing feedbacks.