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.
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2361 Laxenburg
Austria
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Participants (26)
14473 Potsdam
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2500 EX Den Haag
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73100 Lecce
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20133 Milano
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11523 ATHINA
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1051 Budapest
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21949900 Rio De Janeiro
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110 003 New Delhi
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305 8506 Tsukuba
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50676 Koln
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6708 PB Wageningen
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101000 MOSKVA
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100084 BEIJING
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100038 BEIJING
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100038 BEIJING
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380 015 Ahmedabad
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6190292 Kizugawa-Shi
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305 701 DAEJEON
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130 743 SEOUL
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10200 Bangkok
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700000 HO CHI MINH
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40132 Bandung
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3584 CS Utrecht
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3584 CJ Utrecht
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606 8501 Kyoto
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