NCCS-Impacts programme

The National Centre for Climate Services (NCCS) is the Swiss Confederation’s climate services network. As a national knowledge hub, it supports climate-informed decisions that reduce risks, maximize opportunities, and optmize costs. The NCCS-Impacts programme brings together several organisations, including Agroscope, to provide a coordinated national picture of how climate change affects Switzerland’s environment, economy, and society. One of the five projects within the NCSS-Impacts, “Ecosystem Services” provides science‑based insights into how climate change may transform forest, agricultural, and aquatic systems, and how these changes could affect the services they deliver.

Web-based visualization tools were developed within the NCCS-Impacts programme, including ForClim and FORTE for forests, AquaREL for aquatic systems, CLIMAGS for agriculture

What can CLIMAGS do?

• It visualises how agricultural ecosystem services may change across Swiss regions under future climate scenarios
• it helps policymakers, researchers, and practitioners better understand risks and opportunities
• It supports long-term planning with science-based insights
• It bridges the gap between climate research and real-world agricultural solutions

CLIMAGS was developed by WSL (Astrid Björnsen) and the Agroscope Climate & Agriculture Group: Pierluigi Calanca, Marcio dos Reis Martins, Chloé Wüst-Galley and Sibylle Stöckli