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Expanding Integrated Assessment Modelling: Comprehensive And Comprehensible Science for Sustainable, Co-Created Climate Action

A Horizon Europe research project aiming to support the assessment of global climate goals, progress, and feasibility space, and the design of the next round of NDCs and policy planning beyond 2030.

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Concept

Listening
  • Effective stakeholder engagement/co-creation strategy
  • Policy relevance through structured involvement of stakeholders
  • Activities of policy steering and core working groups
  • Scenario building, support on the design of NDCs
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Exchanging
  • FAIR principles
  • Open protocols
  • Model coherence, comparability and consolidation
  • Harmonisation of input data sources
  • Coordinated scenario design
  • Open access to new code, papers and databases
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Modelling
  • Diverse ensemble (global, regional, sub-/national and sectoral models)
  • Detailed coverage of all sectors and their interlinkages
  • Multi-model runs & inter-comparisons
  • Post-2030 NDCs, (inter-) national scenarios
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Expanding
  • Better real-world policy representation in models
  • Deep uncertainty & disruptive innovation
  • Holistic context of sustainability, incl. equity, biodiversity & biophysical limits
  • Behaviour change, social innovation, gender, sequencing of transition 
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Explaining
  • Linking model outputs to assumptions
  • Policy briefing
  • Customisable visualisations
  • Drivers, barriers & policy analysis, lessons from past and current policy
  • Capacity building across the globe
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