Project description
Climate change mitigation - nationally determined contributions for the post 2030 period
The Paris Agreement on climate change includes a five-year global stocktake (GST). Ending in 2023, the global situation will be analysed, and countries will be provided information to prepare updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs). The EU-funded NDC ASPECTS project will provide inputs to the GST and support the potential revision of NDCs, including the development of new NDCs for the post 2030 period. The project will focus on four key sectors: transport, emission intensive industries, buildings, and agriculture (including forestry, land-use, and interaction with the energy conversion sector). For each sector, the project will formulate evidence-based narratives that can be translated into global and national pathways.
Objective
The NDC ASPECTS project will provide inputs to the Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement (PA) and support the potential revision of existing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of the PA’s parties, as well as development of new NDCs for the post 2030 period. The project will particularly focus on four sectoral systems that are highly relevant in terms of the greenhouse gas emissions they produce yet have thus far made only limited progress in decarbonization. To advance these transformations will require to understand and leverage the Eigenlogic of those systems and take into account specific transformation challenges. These sectors are transport & mobility (land-based transport and international aviation & shipping), emission intensive industries, buildings, and agriculture, forestry & land-use, including their supply by and interaction with the energy conversion sector.
For each of those sectors we will undertake „Sectoral Conversation“ to co-create evidence-based narratives with sectoral experts and stakeholders drawing on the consortium’s extensive networks. These narratives can then be translated into global pathways informing the Global Stocktake as well as national pathways for strategically selected countries for each of the four sectors. As an input to the Sectoral Conversations we will systematically assess transformation challenges and opportunities (economic, technological, political/institutional, capacity and awareness), including taking into account experiences with the implementation of the first round of NDCs as well as model-based quantitative analyses. Additionally, we will identify ways and means to improve international governance to enable and facilitate sectoral transformations.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
42103 Wuppertal
Germany
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.