TRANSLATE Research Report: Prepared for Met Éireann by University of Galway, Irish Centre for High-End Computing, University College Cork, and MaREI, the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate, and Marine

Climate change poses a significant risk to Ireland. The impacts of climate change will potentially affect all aspects of Ireland’s society. It is therefore important that decision makers, planners and policy makers have access to both local, robust, and standardised climate information and appropriate risk-based adaptation decision-support tools. Following the publication of the National Adaptation Framework, (2018), and the requirement for government sectors to produce Sectoral Adaptation Plans, there was an unprecedented requirement for accessible, and sometimes technical, national climate information. Following a review of the statutory Sectoral Adaptation Plan, the Climate Change Advisory Council recommended that Ireland would benefit from the development of a common set of climate projections that capture the range of change in future climate projections for use in adaptation, infrastructure and investment planning to 2050.