Objective
Climate policy needs to aim at ambitious long-term climate stabilization. This will require managing the transition from carbon intensive to low carbon economies within this century. Research on mitigation pathways to a low carbon society and the associated mitigation costs is indispensable for informing policy makers. The project AMPERE is aiming for a broad exploration of mitigation pathways and associated mitigation costs under various real world limitations, while at the same time generating a better understanding about the differences across models, and the relation to historical trends. Uncertainties about the costs of mitigation originate from the entire causal chain ranging from economic activity, to emissions and related technologies, and the response of the carbon cycle and climate system to greenhouse gas emissions. AMPERE will use a sizable ensemble of state-of-the-art energy-economy and integrated assessment models to analyse mitigation pathways and associated mitigation costs in a series of multi-model intercomparisons. It will focus on four central areas: (i) The role of uncertainty about the climate response to anthropogenic forcing on the remaining carbon budget for supplying societies around the globe with energy, (ii) the role of technology availability, innovation and myopia in the energy sector, (iii) the role of policy imperfections like limited regional or sectoral participation in climate policy regimes, and (iv) the implications for decarbonisation scenarios and policies for Europe.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-ENV-2010
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Funding Scheme
CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research projectCoordinator
14473 Potsdam
Germany
Participants (21)
Participation ended
38000 Grenoble
2361 Laxenburg
3584 CS Utrecht
20123 Milano
10682 Athina
1000 Bruxelles
75015 Paris
5232 Villigen Psi
75794 Paris
38000 Grenoble
1049 Brussels
70174 Stuttgart
1040 Wien
2595 AC The Hague
75231 Paris
EX1 3PB Exeter
10969 Berlin
305 8506 Tsukuba
6190292 Kizugawa-shi
100038 Beijing
380 015 Ahmedabad
