The SPARCCLE project will deliver adaptation and mitigation strategies for a just and climate resilient Europe, as well as support policymaking for action on the socioeconomic risks posed by climate change.
By engaging policymakers, public and private sector stakeholders, and scientific experts throughout the project, SPARCCLE aims to generate actionable insights and recommendations for policymakers at all levels – European, national and local, including the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) – as well as for businesses, and civil society, based on state-of-the-art science. This involves iterative activities through the project’s lifetime such as co-design of scenarios, validation of results, and capacity building.
To bridge disciplinary divides, SPARCCLE is establishing new methodological frameworks that connect research communities working on climate impacts and risk in Europe. It combines bottom-up assessments of multidimensional climate vulnerabilities, risks, damages and adaptation with integrated assessment frameworks (IAFs) and leading multi-sectoral macro-economic models.
Throughout this approach, the project will strengthen Europe’s capacity to identify the characteristics of both sectoral and systems-level transformations required for climate-resilient and just development that reduces socioeconomic risks for Europe related to both sudden extreme events and slow onset processes. Gender aspects are explicitly accounted for in the research design, including investigating gender-differentiated vulnerability to climate impacts, and employment implications by gender of mitigation transitions.
The main goals of SPARCCLE are to:
1. Accelerate new probabilistic emulators of climate hazards, damages and risks, incorporating cross-sectoral interactions, spillovers, monetisation of climate impacts.
2. Develop granular socioeconomic projections, including gender and other socioeconomic heterogeneities and multidimensional vulnerabilities informed by empirical assessment.
3. Develop insights on mitigation-adaptation synergies and trade-offs, sectoral risks, and provide region-specific recommendations on short- and long-term climate policy responses, considering energy security and import dependence.
4. Foster co-creation with public and private stakeholders through knowledge transfer, capacity building activities, and open science.
5. Co-design stress-test scenarios that explore socioeconomic climate risks with stakeholders and policymakers, including sectoral stress tests. Stress test scenarios demonstrate and accelerate the application of this established method from the finance community across other sectors.
