Project description
Actions for climate policies short of targets
There is a gap between current climate policies and the Paris Agreement’s objectives. The difference refers to the current level of global greenhouse gas emissions and the emissions reductions required. This highlights the need for increased ambition and stronger climate action from all countries to bridge this gap and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. With this in mind, the EU-funded IAM COMPACT project will design a multi-dimensional set of policy measures using a diverse ensemble of models, tools and insights from various fields. The project will involve non-scientists in the modelling process. It will also support the assessment of global climate goals, progress, and feasibility space.
Objective
Neither the first round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) nor currently implemented climate policies are on track to meeting the Paris Agreement’s objectives. Parties are expected to increase their ambition and produce new NDCs covering the post-2030 period. The design of a multi-dimensional set of policy measures that comprise countries’ climate policy agendas is supported by equally diverse integrated assessment modelling (IAM) activities. Notwithstanding the recent progress in the IAM literature and scenario space, the modelling world has fallen short of its promise to include non-scientists in its process; to account for individual choices and lifestyle changes that are indirectly narrated as assumptions not interacting with the vividly modelled technology-economy-environment-policy flows; and to place climate action as a cross-cutting theme in the sustainability spectrum.
IAM COMPACT will support the assessment of global climate goals, progress, and feasibility space, as well as the design of the next round of NDCs and policy planning beyond 2030 for major emitters and non-high-income countries. We will use a diverse ensemble of models, tools, and insights from social and political sciences and operations research, and will integrate bodies of knowledge to co-create the research process and enhance transparency, robustness, and policy relevance. We will explore the role of structural changes in major emitting sectors and of political, behaviour, and social aspects in mitigation; quantify factors promoting or hindering climate neutrality; and account for extreme scenarios, to deliver a range of global and national pathways that are environmentally effective, economically viable, politically feasible, and socially desirable. In doing so, we will fully account for COVID-19 impacts and recovery strategies, and align climate action with broader sustainability goals, while developing technical capacity and promoting ownership in non-high-income countries.
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02150 Espoo
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9220 Aalborg
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48940 Leioa
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1210 Bruxelles / Brussel
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47151 Boecillo
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0349 Oslo
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11523 ATHINA
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100 44 Stockholm
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20133 Milano
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185 33 PIRAEUS
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47002 VALLADOLID
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42103 Wuppertal
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380 015 Ahmedabad
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100084 BEIJING
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20783 Adelphi
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MD 20783-1690 Adelphi
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1176 Addis Ababa
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04070 Kyiv
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50900 Mihintale
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80100 Mombasa
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1211 Geneve
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SW7 2AZ LONDON
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