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Widening international cooperation activities on climate adaptation and mitigation

 

Proposals should aim to create a framework and permanent dialogue to encourage, in a structured and strategic manner, the opening of the JPI Climate to international cooperation with key international climate research and innovation programmes, as well as funding and investment institutions. Proposals should also undertake activities to align with and support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular on climate change resilience, adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk reduction. Flagship actions for possible joint funding with members of the JPI Water, JPI Urban Europe, JPI Oceans or key international cooperation partners and international programmes of strategic importance for the EU, such as the Belmont Forum, should also be identified and prepared for in advance.

This action should also organize and develop the knowledge base required to address climate challenges and EU policy priorities within a global perspective. This can be accomplished by providing open and integrated analysis of research results and recommendations to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to combat climate change and its impacts. It should aim to contribute to: strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related hazards; integrating climate change measures into national policies, strategies, and planning; improving education, awareness raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, resource efficiency, adaptation, impact reduction, early warning and resilience to disasters; supporting LICs/LMICs in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation, operationalization and evaluation of the Green Climate Fund; promoting mechanisms for raising capacities for effective climate change related planning and management in LICs/LMICs, including focusing on women, youth, local and marginalized communities.

The Commission considers that proposals with a duration of four years requesting a contribution from the EU in the range of EUR 2 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.

The aim of this CSA is to further open the JPI Climate to international cooperation partners, including in Latin America, Africa or Asia, and to encourage engagement of a wider group of EU Member States and thus contribute to creating a coherent European Research Area open to the world. In addition, this action should consolidate the alignment of the R&I agendas of national, European Commission and other key players related to climate issues. Providing integrated, qualified climate knowledge and decision support services across sectors internationally is the main target, well in line with Horizon 2020 and SFIC strategies for internationalization of European skills at a time when research and innovation requirements for the Sustainable Development Goals (2016-2030) have been launched at United Nations level.

Projects are expected to contribute to:

  • increasing the scale and ambition of research and innovation activities for climate adaptation and mitigation for a resilient and efficient Europe that will valorise their know-how on climate solutions at global level in the context of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda;
  • making the JPI Climate, in close collaboration with the European Commission and others European initiatives involving Member States (such as Copernicus, JPI Water, JPI Oceans, JPI Urban Europe, GPC and SFIC), a privileged and attractive partner for global cooperation in climate research and innovation, notably in the context of the Global Framework for Climate Services, the Future Earth platform on global sustainability and the Belmont Forum;
  • strengthening the role of the JPI Climate for underpinning knowledge and evidence for supporting the implementation of related EU policies and for fostering the EU's common position in the global climate-related negotiations under UNFCCC;
  • implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular SDG 13 'Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts', as well as the conclusions of the COP21 Paris Agreement.