Descripción del proyecto
Estudiar las dinámicas de la descarbonización
La Unión Europea se embarcó en un ambicioso camino hacia la descarbonización para mitigar el cambio climático y garantizar la prosperidad económica. En 2015, el Acuerdo de París sobre el Cambio Climático marcó el inicio y se continuó con el programa del Pacto Verde Europeo, a fin de lograr la neutralidad climática para 2050. Dado que la eliminación del consumo de combustibles fósiles en el sector eléctrico es inevitable, la descarbonización augura profundos cambios estructurales y puede provocar dificultades y desigualdades sociales. El proyecto CINTRAN, financiado con fondos europeos, estudiará los cambios estructurales para encontrar formas de minimizar los riesgos. Se llevarán a cabo análisis cualitativos e investigaciones cuantitativas basadas en modelos, centrándose en Grecia (Macedonia occidental), Polonia (Silesia), Estonia (Ida-Virumaa) y Alemania (zona minera renana). Los hallazgos ofrecerán información sobre la dinámica de la descarbonización.
Objetivo
In order to meet the climate change mitigation objectives of the European Union as well as the objectives of the Paris Agreement, it is inevitable that the European Union phases out fossil fuel consumption in the power sector and decarbonizes fossil-fuel dependent industries. These industries are not spread evenly across the EU but concentrated in a number of carbon-intensive regions. Decarbonization will lead to deep structural changes with implications for regional economies, labour markets, as well as for the regions’ social, political, cultural and demographic composition. If not managed well, these structural changes may cause serious economic impacts, societal upheaval, aggravated social inequalities and hardship.
To minimize such consequences it is necessary to better understand the patterns and dynamics of structural change in response to decarbonization at the regional level, to understand which parameters determine the pace of transformation as well as the capacity of regional actors to adapt and pro-actively create alternative structures. This project aims to enable these activities through highly integrated, inter- and transdisciplinary research working in close collaboration with regional stakeholders. It combines quantitative model-based research with qualitative in-depth analysis. The qualitative research will focus on four highly fossil-fuel dependent regions: Western Macedonia (Greece), Silesia (Poland), Ida-Virumaa (Estonia) and the Rhenish mining area (Germany). The regions were selected to cover a diverse set of different fuels, state of economic development, diversification of the regional economy, political economy, and spatial composition. This diversity will enable the project to derive generalizable insights about the patterns and dynamics of decarbonization and the corresponding structural adjustments that hold relevance for all carbon-intensive regions in the EU and its neighbouring countries.
Ámbito científico
- social sciencessociologysocial issuessocial inequalities
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicspolitical economy
Palabras clave
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-LC-SC3-2019-NZE-RES-CC
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
42103 Wuppertal
Alemania
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.