Students will acquire the following knowledge and skills:
– Understand climate scenarios and analyze the variability of climate data (trends and climatic extremes).
– Acquire the methodological framework for the assessment of adaptation measures in human systems and identify the most adequate metrics for vulnerability and climate risk for the problem under analysis.
– Identify adaptation measures to climate change scenarios infrastructures of human services supply, namely energy and water.
– Understand the concept and scope of climate risk in organizations, considering the intrinsic scope of the company’s activities and its supply chain, which may suffer disruption due to climatic extremes, and map the likelihood, potential impacts, and risk management and mitigation measures, including costs.
– Understand the impacts of climate change on economic activities and on the competitiveness of companies.