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 # CLIMADA
 
-[CLIMADA](https://climada.ethz.ch/climada/) stands for **CLIM**ate **ADA**ptation and is a probabilistic natural catastrophe impact model, that also calculates averted damage (benefit) thanks to adaptation measures of any kind (from grey to green infrastructure, behavioural, etc.).
+[CLIMADA](https://climada.ethz.ch/climada/) (CLIMate ADAptation) is a free and open-source software framework for climate risk assessment and adaptation option appraisal.
+Designed by a large scientific community, it helps reasearchers, policymakers, and businesses analyse the impacts of natural hazards and explore adaptation strategies.
 
 As of today, CLIMADA provides global coverage of major climate-related extreme-weather hazards at high resolution (4x4km) via a [data API](https://climada.ethz.ch/data-api/v1/docs) For select hazards, historic and probabilistic events sets, for past, present and future climate exist at distinct time horizons.
 You will find a repository containing scientific peer-reviewed articles that explain software components implemented in CLIMADA [here](https://github.com/CLIMADA-project/climada_papers).

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 # CLIMADA
 
-CLIMADA stands for **CLIM**ate **ADA**ptation and is a probabilistic natural catastrophe impact model, that also calculates averted damage (benefit) thanks to adaptation measures of any kind (from grey to green infrastructure, behavioural, etc.).
+[CLIMADA](https://climada.ethz.ch/climada/) (CLIMate ADAptation) is a free and open-source software framework for climate risk assessment and adaptation option appraisal.
+Designed by a large scientific community, it helps reasearchers, policymakers, and businesses analyse the impacts of natural hazards and explore adaptation strategies.
 
 As of today, CLIMADA provides global coverage of major climate-related extreme-weather hazards at high resolution (4x4km) via a [data API](https://climada.ethz.ch/data-api/v1/docs) For select hazards, historic and probabilistic events sets, for past, present and future climate exist at distinct time horizons.
 You will find a repository containing scientific peer-reviewed articles that explain software components implemented in CLIMADA [here](https://github.com/CLIMADA-project/climada_papers).