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Exploring National and Global Actions to reduce Greenhouse gas Emissions

Project description

New models to carve decarbonisation pathways

One of the key questions facing policymakers today is how to tackle climate change and mitigate the impacts of global warming. Scientists and economists developed integrated assessment models (IAMS) to find answers by combining different strands of knowledge – natural science, engineering and economics. The EU-funded ENGAGE project will invite key stakeholders to co-produce a new generation of global and national decarbonisation pathways. These will be designed to mitigate the risks of climate change to meet the Paris Agreement objectives and implement game-changing innovations. ENGAGE will also quantify the avoided impacts of climate change. The findings of this four-year project will benefit policymaking and inform the 2023 global stocktake, while feeding into the mid-century mitigation strategies for major emitters.

Objective

As the world faces the risks of dangerous climate change, policy-makers, industry and civil society leaders are counting on Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) to inform and guide strategies to deliver on the objectives of the Paris Agreement (PA). ENGAGE rises to this challenge by engaging these stakeholders in co-producing a new generation of global and national decarbonisation pathways. These new pathways will supplement natural science, engineering and economics, traditionally represented in IAMs, with cutting-edge insights from social science in order to reflect multidimensional feasibility of decarbonisation and identify opportunities to strengthen climate policies. The pathways will be designed to minimise overshoot of the temperature target and analyse the timing of net-zero emissions to meet the Paris temperature target and reduce the reliance on controversial negative emissions technologies. In addition, they will link national mitigation strategies of major emitters with the PA’s objectives, integrate potential game-changing innovations, and advance conceptually novel approaches to architectures of international climate agreements. ENGAGE will also quantify avoided impacts of climate change, co-benefits and trade-offs of climate policy, and identify the biggest sectoral opportunities for climate change mitigation. In ENGAGE, we will set new standards of transparency for global and national IAMs. The new pathways will be developed in an iterative global and national stakeholder process and a consortium of leading global and national IAMs and social scientists. This co-production process ensures that the pathways are credible, legitimate, and rooted in concrete policy and industry experience, making them relevant to inform the 2023 global stocktake and feed into the mid-century strategies of major emitters.

Call for proposal

H2020-LC-CLA-2018-2019-2020

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Sub call

H2020-LC-CLA-2018-2

Coordinator

INTERNATIONALES INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMANALYSE
Net EU contribution
€ 1 442 350,50
Address
Schlossplatz 1
2361 Laxenburg
Austria

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Region
Ostösterreich Niederösterreich Wiener Umland/Südteil
Activity type
Research Organisations
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Total cost
€ 1 442 350,50

Participants (26)