ENABLING AND LEVERAGING CLIMATE ACTION TOWARDS NET-ZERO EMISSIONS

Project Information

ELEVATE

Grant agreement ID: 101056873

DOI

10.3030/101056873

EC signature date 12 May 2022

Start date 1 September 2022

End date 31 August 2026

Funded under

• Climate, Energy and Mobility

Total cost

€ 4 723 324,38

EU contribution

€ 4 723 324,25

Coordinated by

MINISTERIE VAN INFRASTRUCTUUR EN WATERSTAAT
Netherlands

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)

Interactive net-zero tool

Interactive net-zero tool (Task 1.3).

Expanded climate policy database and modelling protocol on NDCs, national policies and transformative policy packages

Expanded climate policy database and modelling protocol on NDCs, national policies and transformative policy packages (Task 2.1).

Updated and improved model documentation linked to interactive net-zero tool and scenario explorer

Updated and improved model documentation linked to interactive net-zero tool and scenario explorer. M10 with an update in M48 (Task 7.4).

Documents, reports (5)

Data management plan

Data management plan, scheduled for M6 with an update in M48 (Task 8.3).

Annual net-zero reports

Annual net-zero reports. First report in M12. Following reports in M24, M36 and M48 (Task 1.3).

Report on different definitions of net-zero emission targets

Report on different definitions of net-zero emission targets (Task 6.1).

Plan for exploitation and dissemination of results

Plan for exploitation and dissemination of results. M3 with an update in M24 (Task 7.1).

A practical framework that can help IAM modellers to integrate justice dimensions in the modelling tools and scenarios

A practical framework that can help IAM modellers integrate justice dimensions in the modelling tools and scenarios, including a scoping section on the just transition and the consequences for modelling tools, including definitions, the starting point in this area for the project, key references from the associated rich literature, how project tools could be used in general to develop just pathways (Task 5.1).

Other (1)

Workshop schedule and forum participants

Workshop schedule and forum participants (Task 1.1).

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (35)

Expert perspectives on incorporating justice considerations into integrated assessment modelling

Author(s): Sean Low; Elina Brutschin; Chad M. Baum; Benjamin K. Sovacool
Published in: npj Climate Action, 2025, ISSN 2731-9814
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.1038/S44168-025-00218-5

SRM on the table: the role of geoengineering for the stability and effectiveness of climate coalitions

Author(s): Piergiuseppe Pezzoli; Johannes Emmerling; Massimo Tavoni
Published in: Climatic Change, 2023, ISSN 1573-1480
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/S10584-023-03604-2

Comparing the Sequence of Climate Change Mitigation Targets and Policies in Major Emitting Economies

Author(s): Nascimento, Leonardo; den Elzen, Michel; Kuramochi, Takeshi; Woollands, Santiago; Dafnomilis, Ioannis; Moisio, Mia; Roelfsema, Mark; Forsell, Nicklas; Araujo Gutierrez, Zuelclady
Published in: Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 2023, ISSN 1572-5448
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2023.2255151

Economic quantification of Loss and Damage funding needs

Author(s): Massimo Tavoni; Pietro Andreoni; Matteo Calcaterra; Elisa Calliari; Teresa Deubelli-Hwang; Reinhard Mechler; Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler; Leonie Wenz
Published in: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2024, ISSN 2662-138X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S43017-024-00565-7

Climate policy in 2023

Author(s): Leonardo Nascimento, Catrina Godinho, Takeshi Kuramochi, Mia Moisio, Michel den Elzen, Niklas Höhne
Published in: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2024, ISSN 2662-138X
Publisher: NATURE
DOI: 10.1038/s43017-024-00541-1

Using net-zero carbon debt to track climate overshoot responsibility

Author(s): Setu Pelz; Gaurav Ganti; Robin Lamboll; Luke Grant; Chris Smith; Shonali Pachauri; Joeri Rogelj; Keywan Riahi; Wim Thiery; Matthew J. Gidden
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025, ISSN 1091-6490
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.18452/33514

India's just energy transition: Political economy challenges across states and regions

Published in: Energy Policy, 2023, ISSN 0301-4215
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113621

Closing decent living gaps in energy and emissions scenarios: introducing DESIRE

Author(s): Jarmo S Kikstra, Vassilis Daioglou, Jihoon Min, Fabio Sferra, Bjoern Soergel, Elmar Kriegler, Hanbit Lee, Alessio Mastrucci, Shonali Pachauri, Narasimha Rao, Sebastian Rauner, Detlef van Vuuren, Keywan Riahi, Bas van Ruijven, Joeri Rogelj
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ADC3AD

Glasgow to Paris—The impact of the Glasgow commitments for the Paris climate agreement

Author(s): Aleluia Reis, Lara; Tavoni, Massimo
Published in: iScience, 2023, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Cell Press (Elsevier)
DOI: 10.1016/J.ISCI.2023.105933

High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide

Author(s): Sarah Schöngart; Zebedee Nicholls; Roman Hoffmann; Setu Pelz; Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Published in: Nature Climate Change, 2025, ISSN 1758-6798
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.3929/ETHZ-B-000735849

Science-policy: UNFCCC policymakers’ perspective of scientific scenarios and their policy relevance

Author(s): Jiesper Tristan Strandsbjerg Pedersen; Carla Gomes; Patrick O’Rourke; Detlef van Vuuren; Joyeeta Gupta; Filipe Duarte Santos; Rob Swart
Published in: npj Climate Action, 2025, ISSN 2731-9814
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.1038/S44168-025-00250-5

Exploring global climate intervention experiments: sociotechnical promises, innovation dynamics, and perceived co-impacts across 20 projects and pilots

Author(s): Benjamin K. Sovacool; Chad M. Baum; Livia Fritz; Sean Low
Published in: Sustainability Science, 2025, ISSN 1862-4057
Publisher: Springer Japan
DOI: 10.1007/S11625-025-01696-6

Reducing sectoral hard-to-abate emissions to limit reliance on carbon dioxide removal

Author(s): Oreane Y. Edelenbosch; Andries F. Hof; Maarten van den Berg; Harmen Sytze de Boer; Hsing-Hsuan Chen; Vassilis Daioglou; Mark M. Dekker; Jonathan C. Doelman; Michel G. J. den Elzen; Mathijs Harmsen; Stratos Mikropoulos; Mariësse A. E. van Sluisveld; Elke Stehfest; Isabela S. Tagomori; Willem-Jan van Zeist; Detlef P. van Vuuren
Published in: Nature Climate Change, 2024, ISSN 1758-6798
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.1038/S41558-024-02025-Y

Entry points for assessing ‘fair shares’ in national mitigation contributions

Author(s): Setu Pelz, Gaurav Ganti, Shonali Pachauri, Joeri Rogelj, Keywan Riahi
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ADA45F

Routes to a Carbon-Free World

Author(s): van Vuuren, D.; Minx, J.; Roy, J.; Lamb, W.; van der Wijst, K.
Published in: Frontiers for Young Minds, 2024, ISSN 2296-6846
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/FRYM.2024.1395440

Glasgow to Paris - The impact of the Glasgow commitments for the Paris climate agreement

Published in: iScience, 2023, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: 50 iScience
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.105933

Exploring pathways for world development within planetary boundaries

Author(s): Detlef P. van Vuuren; Jonathan C. Doelman; Isabela Schmidt Tagomori; Arthur H. W. Beusen; Sarah E. Cornell; Johan Röckstrom; Aafke M. Schipper; Elke Stehfest; Geanderson Ambrosio; Maarten van den Berg; Lex Bouwman; Vassilis Daioglou; Mathijs Harmsen; Paul Lucas; Kaj-Ivar van der Wijst; Willem-Jan van Zeist
Published in: Nature, 2025, ISSN 1476-4687
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.1038/S41586-025-08928-W

Comparing the Sequence of Climate Change Mitigation Targets and Policies in Major Emitting Economies

Author(s): Leonardo Nascimento, Michel den Elzen, Takeshi Kuramochi, Santiago Woollands, Ioannis Dafnomilis
Published in: Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 2023, ISSN 1387-6988
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2023.2255151

Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean

Author(s): Leonard Missbach; Jan Christoph Steckel; Adrien Vogt-Schilb
Published in: World Development, 2023, ISSN 1873-5991
Publisher: Elsevier B.V. (Elsevier)
DOI: 10.18235/0004568

India's just energy transition: Political economy challenges across states and regions

Author(s): Jose Antonio Ordonez, Michael Jakob, Jan Christoph Steckel, Hauke Ward
Published in: Energy Policy, Issue 179, 2025, ISSN 0301-4215
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.ENPOL.2023.113621

Expanding climate policy adoption improves national mitigation efforts

Author(s): Leonardo Nascimento, Niklas Höhne
Published in: npj Climate Action, 2023, ISSN 2731-9814
Publisher: NPJ
DOI: 10.1038/s44168-023-00043-8

Uncertainties around net‐zero climate targets have major impact on greenhouse gas emissions projections

Author(s): Michel G. J. den Elzen; Ioannis Dafnomilis; Leonardo Nascimento; Arthur Beusen; Nicklas Forsell; Joost Gubbels; Mathijs Harmsen; Elena Hooijschuur; Zuelclady Araujo Gutiérrez; Takeshi Kuramochi
Published in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2025, ISSN 1749-6632
Publisher: Wiley (on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences)
DOI: 10.1111/NYAS.15285

Public support for carbon pricing policies and revenue recycling options: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the survey literature

Author(s): Farah Mohammadzadeh Valencia; Cornelia Mohren; Anjali Ramakrishnan; Marlene Merchert; Jan C. Minx; Jan Christoph Steckel
Published in: npj Climate Action, 2024, ISSN 2731-9814
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.1038/S44168-024-00153-X

Fair carbon removal obligations under climate response uncertainty

Author(s): Gaurav Ganti; Setu Pelz; Uta Klönne; Matthew J. Gidden; Carl-Friedrich Schleussner; Zebedee Nicholls
Published in: Climate Policy, 2025, ISSN 1752-7457
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
DOI: 10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.28636839.V1

Climate policy in 2023

Author(s): Leonardo Nascimento; Catrina Godinho; Takeshi Kuramochi; Mia Moisio; Michel den Elzen; Niklas Höhne
Published in: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2024, ISSN 2662-138X
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1038/S43017-024-00541-1

Like diamonds in the sky? Public perceptions, governance, and information framing of solar geoengineering activities in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States

Author(s): Baum, Chad M.; Fritz, Livia; Low, Sean; Sovacool, Benjamin K.
Published in: Environmental Politics, 2024, ISSN 1743-8934
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2301262

Economic quantification of Loss and Damage funding needs

Published in: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2024, ISSN 2662-138X
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s43017-024-00565-7

Navigating the black box of fair national emissions targets

Author(s): Mark M. Dekker; Andries F. Hof; Yann du Robiou Pont; Nicole van den Berg; Vassilis Daioglou; Michel den Elzen; Rik van Heerden; Elena Hooijschuur; Isabela Schmidt Tagomori; Chantal Würschinger; Detlef P. van Vuuren
Published in: Nature Climate Change, 2024, ISSN 1758-6798
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-5023350/V1

The political economy of coal across 12 countries: Analysing qualitative interviews with topic models

Author(s): Niccolò Manych, Finn Müller-Hansen, Jan Christoph Steckel
Published in: Energy Research & Social Science, Issue 101, 2023, ISSN 2214-6326
Publisher: ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103137

The political economy of coal across 12 countries: Analysing qualitative interviews with topic models

Author(s): Manych, N.; Müller-Hansen, F.; Steckel, J.
Published in: Energy Research & Social Science, 2023, ISSN 2214-6326
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.ERSS.2023.103137

Reducing the cost of capital to finance the energy transition in developing countries

Author(s): M. Calcaterra; L. Aleluia Reis; P. Fragkos; T. Briera; H. S. de Boer; F. Egli; J. Emmerling; G. Iyer; S. Mittal; F. H. J. Polzin; M. W. J. L. Sanders; T. S. Schmidt; A. Serebriakova; B. Steffen; D. J. van de Ven; D. P. van Vuuren; P. Waidelich; M. Tavoni
Published in: Nature Energy, 2024, ISSN 2058-7546
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.3929/ETHZ-B-000697868

Expanding climate policy adoption improves national mitigation efforts

Author(s): Nascimento, Leonardo; Hoehne, Niklas
Published in: npj Climate Action, 2023, ISSN 2731-9814
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.1038/S44168-023-00043-8

Past socio-political transitions away from coal and gas show challenges and opportunities ahead

Author(s): Judy Jingwei Xie, Elina Brutschin, Joeri Rogelj, Iain Staffell
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ADD0C6

Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean

Author(s): Missbach, Leonard; Steckel, Jan Christoph; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien
Published in: World Development, 2023, ISSN 0305-750X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106406

Like diamonds in the sky? Public perceptions, governance, and information framing of solar geoengineering activities in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States

Author(s): Chad M. Bauma, Livia Fritz, Sean Low, Benjamin K. Sovacool
Published in: Environmental Politics, 2023, ISSN 0964-4016
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2301262

Other (1)

DSCALE v0.1 – an open-source algorithm for downscaling regional and global mitigation pathways to the country level

Author(s): Fabio Sferra; Bas van Ruijven; Keywan Riahi; Philip Hackstock; Florian Maczek; Jarmo Kikstra; Reinhard Haas
Published in: EGUsphere, 2025
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-2025-121