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    Work Package 1: Co-design, stakeholder engagement, and model usability

    • Ensure relevance and legitimacy of research activities through structured involvement of stakeholders, including European citizens
    • Improve the quality of research and usefulness of tools by engaging closely with the user community – using capacity training for bi-directional exchanges
    • Lower entry barriers and improve the transparency of IAM-based research through open access and improved documentation (incl. observing the FAIR principles)

    Work Package 2: Entry-points to just and efficient transitions to net zero

    • Improve the modelling of economic structural change and its interplay with net-zero climate policies
    • Ensure adequate representation of sectoral details and near-term trends in the integrated assessment of net zero pathways
    • Advance the analysis of the distributional impacts of net zero pathways on households and regions
    • Provide a holistic assessment of policy portfolios to implement a just and efficient transition to net zero GHG emissions in Europe and beyond

    Work Package 3: Climate finance and innovation

    • Improve the modelling of the financial sector both in conventional and agent-based IAMs
    • Investigate the implications of regional and granular heterogeneity of cost of capital
    • Improve probabilistic forecasting techniques for technology cost developments
    • Enhance the modelling of technological innovation & spill-over effects
    • Provide estimations of investment financing needs for the transition and de-risking mechanisms

    Work Package 4: Lifestyle, digitalisation, material efficiency, and circularity

    • Improve IAM representation of demand-side transformation enabling net-zero emission pathways
    • Understand the implications of digitalisation in daily life for climate change mitigation
    • Understand the global, long-term dynamics of lifestyle change as an endogenous model process
    • Understand material consequences of low-carbon transformation
    • Improve the representation of materials and related circular-economy based mitigation options in IAMs, including recycling, reuse and remanufacturing
    • Represent material stocks and flows of selected specialty materials that are important components of key mitigation technologies

    Work Package 5: SDGs synergies and trade-offs, and biophysical climate impacts

    • Improve the representation of biodiversity in IAMs
    • Climate change impacts (biophysical and economic), including the extent to which they can be avoided through mitigation action
    • Evaluate co-benefits and trade-offs between mitigation and adaptation action in areas such as health, biodiversity, food security

    Work Package 6: Robust and resilient climate mitigation and adaptation pathways

    • Integration of impacts and adaptation in holistic IAM modelling frameworks
    • Assessment of model uncertainties in large ensemble of scenarios
    • A robust decision-making framework for scenario selection
    • Comparing the efficiency of alternative policy instruments
    • Downscaling IAMs results at country/local level

    Work Package 7: Management and Dissemination

    • Coordinate the activities within the project and facilitate the communication within the Consortium to ensure the integration of the different streams of work;
    • Communicate with the European Commission to ensure information exchange and guarantee compliance with relevant regulations of HEU programme
    • Ensure data management and assure data quality
    • Support the organisation of project meetings and workshops;
    • Ensure appropriate strategies to disseminate and communicate the project’s results.

    Find here the List of Deliverables.

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Funded by the European Union

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No. 101081604

Swiss Partner

This work has received funding from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)

UK Partner

This work was funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee (No. 10062835 – Cambridge University)

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Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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