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