Descripción del proyecto
Vías innovadoras para las ambiciones de descarbonización
El Acuerdo de París ha sido decisivo para promover las ambiciones de descarbonización de la Unión Europea (UE). Sin embargo, sigue habiendo varias incertidumbres sobre estas ambiciones. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto INNOPATHS, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende cuantificar estas incertidumbres y esbozar vías viables de bajas emisiones de carbono para la UE, teniendo en cuenta sus ramificaciones económicas, sociales y ambientales. El proyecto reunirá a veintitrés partes interesadas de diversos sectores, que participarán activamente en el diseño conjunto de estas vías. Mediante un análisis minucioso, en INNOPATHS también se propondrán estrategias para maximizar los beneficios de estas vías, como el desarrollo de nuevas industrias, la creación de empleo y la mejora de la competitividad, mitigando al mismo tiempo cualquier efecto adverso sobre los hogares de renta baja o los sectores intensivos en carbono. Además, en INNOPATHS se desarrollarán cuatro herramientas en línea para dilucidar sus vías, transiciones tecnológicas y políticas.
Objetivo
The Paris Agreement substantially increased the need for countries and regions to understand the full economic, social and environmental implications of the deep decarbonisation to which the global community is now committed. The EU has long had decarbonisation ambitions, but there remains considerable uncertainty as to precisely how these ambitions will be achieved, or what the impacts of such achievement will be on the EU economy and society more generally. INNOPATHS will resolve this uncertainty to the extent possible, will characterise and provide a quantification of the uncertainty which remains, and will describe in great detail a number of possible low-carbon pathways for the EU, together with the economic, social and environmental impacts to which they are likely to lead. These pathways will be co-designed with the aid of 23 stakeholders from different sectors who have already provided letters of support to INNOPATHS. INNOPATHS will suggest through this analysis how the benefits of these pathways, such as new industries, jobs and competitiveness, may be maximized, and how any negative impacts, such as those on low-income households, or on carbon-intensive sectors, may be mitigated. INNOPATHS will communicate its insights through the normal scientific channels, and make substantial contributions to the scientific literature, but will go well beyond this in terms of interactions with stakeholders, building on the co-design processes in the project to reach out to stakeholder networks of businesses, NGOs, local and national policy makers. INNOPATHS will create four innovative online tools to explain its pathways, technological transitions and policies, to different constituencies. Through these tools and other dissemination and communication mechanisms, INNOPATHS will have a substantial impact on the climate and energy policy debates up to and beyond 2020, increasing the probability that decisions in this area will be taken in an informed and cost-effective way
Ámbito científico
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil societynongovernmental organizations
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringceramics
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysolar energyphotovoltaic
Palabras clave
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-SC5-2016-OneStageB
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
WC1E 6BT London
Reino Unido