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ENABLING AND LEVERAGING CLIMATE ACTION TOWARDS NET-ZERO EMISSIONS

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Multidisciplinary approach to effective climate policy

The Paris Agreement’s goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is critical in preventing further devastating impacts of climate change. Despite this, current policies have been insufficient in achieving this target, with member countries lacking concrete plans to reach it. The EU funded ELEVATE project will bring together a crucial multidisciplinary team of climate policy experts, social scientists and modeling teams to gain an accurate understanding of the development of effective nationally determined contributions and climate policies. With this knowledge, the project aims to support policymakers worldwide in creating roadmaps and efficient policies for achieving the goals set forth in the Paris Agreement.

Objective

To implement the Paris Agreement's goals, greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced to net-zero around 2050. However, current policies are still insufficient to reach this target and net-zero promises by countries are generally lacking concrete roadmaps how to reach them. ELEVATE aims to create a robust scientific understanding required to strengthen NDCs and current climate policies towards reaching net-zero emissions. For this, ELEVATE brings together a unique multidisciplinary consortium of leading international and national modelling teams, climate policy experts and social scientists. The consortium aims to interact directly with policymakers to define information gaps and attractive policies, thus enhancing usability of the knowledge base and stimulating mutual learning. Based on this, the consortium will systematically assess NDCs and policies at the global and national levels to identify current progress and good practice policies. Subsequently, ELEVATE will look into a range of critical enabling factors related to sectoral action, international climate policy and the relationship with justice and sustainable development that can be leveraged to strengthen action. This allows a new generation of global and national mitigation scenarios, exploring the possibility of strengthening climate policies in countries worldwide and support net-zero goals. We assess the impact of different ways to formulate net-zero goals and the impact of climate uncertainty. Outcomes include detailed pathways and milestones on how policies can be strengthened to achieving net-zero goals. ELEVATE goes significantly beyond the state-of-the-art by 1) the inclusion of social sciences in all aspects of the analysis providing significantly improved insights into issues related to implementation and feasibility, 2) the detailed focus on sectoral action, 3) the stakeholder interaction and 4) the direct collaboration between the global and national teams on net-zero emission scenarios.

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Call for proposal

HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

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MINISTERIE VAN INFRASTRUCTUUR EN WATERSTAAT
Net EU contribution
€ 942 187,50
Address
RIJNSTRAAT 8
2500 EX Den Haag
Netherlands

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West-Nederland Zuid-Holland Agglomeratie ’s-Gravenhage
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Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
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€ 942 187,50

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