Exploring National and Global Actions to reduce Greenhouse gas Emissions (ENGAGE)

As the world faces the risks of dangerous climate change, policy-makers, industry and civil society leaders are counting on Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) to inform and guide strategies to deliver on the objectives ofthe Paris Agreement (PA). ENGAGE rises to this challenge by engaging these stakeholders in co-producing a new generation of global and national decarbonization pathways.

These new pathways will supplement natural science, engineering and economics, traditionally represented in IAMs, with cutting-edge insights from social science in order to reflect multidimensional feasibility of decarbonization and identify opportunities to strengthen climate policies. The pathways will be designed to minimize overshoot of the temperature target and analyze the timing of net-zero emissions to meet the Paris temperature target and reduce the reliance on controversial negative emissions technologies. In addition, they will link national mitigation strategies of major emitters with the PA’s objectives, integrate potential game-changing innovations, and advance conceptually novel approaches to architectures of international climate agreements.

For more information: engage-climate.org

Partners

• International Institute for Applied Systems AnalysiS (IIASA)
• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
• Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment (PBL)
• Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC)
• E3-Modelling (E3M)
• Central European University (CEU)
• Fundação Coppetec (COPPETEC)
• The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
• National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)
• Newclimate Institute for Climate Policy and Global Sustainability (NewClimate)
• Wageningen University (WUR)
• Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution for Higher Education National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE)
• Tsinghua University (TU)
• Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission Energy Research institute (ERI)
• National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC)
• Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA)
• Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)
• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
• University of Seoul Industry Cooperation Foundation (UoS)
• Thammasat University (SIIT-TU)
• Vietnam National University HCMC - International University (IU (VNU-HCMC))
• Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB)
• Jaeger Jill (Dr. Jill Jäger)
• Utrecht University (UU)
• National University Corporation, Kyoto University (Kyoto Univ.)

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 821471 (ENGAGE).

Last edited: 11 July 2019