AGEDI Climate Change Inspectors

The Climate Change Inspectors were developed in order to make accessible the results of each of the 12 studies under AGEDI’s Local, National, and Regional Climate Change Programme. A brief overview of each Inspector is provided below:

Climate Inspectors: This Inspector hosts the results of the Regional Atmospheric Modeling and Regional Ocean Modeling sub-projects

Environment Inspectors: This Inspector hosts the results of two studies. When selected, it offers access to the Terrestrial Biodiversity Inspector and Marine Biodiversity Inspector.

Water Inspectors: This Inspector hosts the results of three studies. When selected, it offers access to the Regional Water-Energy Nexus Inspector, the UAE Water-Energy Nexus Inspector, and the Al Ain Inspector.

Coastal Inspectors: This Inspector hosts the results of two studies. When selected, it offers access to the Sea Level Rise Inspector and Coastal Vulnerability Inspector.

Socioeconomic Inspectors: This Inspector hosts the results of three studies. When selected, it offers access to the Desalination Inspector, the Food Security Inspector, and the Health Co-benefits Inspector.

There are 5 specific aims underlying each of the 12 Climate Inspectors. These aims were established in response to feedback received from AGEDI stakeholders and partners. They were reflected during the model design process in order to ensure, as much as possible, that the model's visual and substantive designs are closely aligned with priority concerns of policymakers and decision makers. A description of each aim is provided in the bullets below.

Consistency: This aim seeks to ensure that the model is designed to be consistent with the methodological approach, assumptions, and analytical steps documented in this Technical Report.

User-friendliness: This aim seeks to ensure that the model is intuitive, easy to navigate, and useful to experts for use in research as well as to policymakers for exploring implications of specific food security policy options.

Transparency: This aim seeks to ensure that the internal databases of the model are readily accessible for review and/or updating by the user. This offers the opportunity for a user to adjust the range of assumptions to reflect updates to food production and consumption patterns.

Flexibility: This aim seeks to ensure that the model offers the capability to explore food import characteristics by exporting country and food type, as well as incremental costs of food imports under climate change by either exporting country or food type.

Focused: This aim seeks to ensure that model design also incorporates a focus on a) certain countries in which the UAE has made agricultural land acquisitions in an effort to enhance food security and b) the vulnerability of specific communities with the UAE who may be vulnerable to future food price spikes.

Clicking on any icon on the home page opens the particular Inspector. The main menu for each Inspector consists of three options, as briefly described below:

Background reports: Clicking on this icon provides access to the various technical reports that were developed for the sub-project

Inspector: Clicking on this icon provides access to the Inspector itself. Each of the Inspectors has been designed to be as intuitive as possible. See the Help functions within the Inspector for further information

Useful links: Clicking on this icon provides access to a numbers of links for relevant institutions and programmes for further information