Research projects Archive

Digitalization will fundamentally change all sectors of the European economy in the next decades. At the same time, the EU is committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. These two transformation will undoubtedly affect each other, but the extent to which they will be mutually supporting is currently unknown. Most importantly, there is a danger that the digital transformation will delay the progress towards a net-zero carbon economy. The EU-funded 2D4D project aims at ensuring that the digital transformation is not a barrier to decarbonisation, rather an enabler. The project will identify and measure the decarbonisation consequences of three disruptive digitalisation technologies in hard-to-decarbonise sectors: additive manufacturing in industry, mobility-as-a-service in transportation, and AI in buildings. The project will produce a distinctive data collection to examine the technical and socioeconomic potential of these technologies, enhance decarbonisation narratives and ensure that digital technology supports energy transition.

ACCREU: Assessing Climate Change Risk in EUrope

ACCREU is a project funded by HORIZON Europe RIA (Research and Innovation Action) investigating, in a fully integrated framework, climate change impacts, mitigation, adaptation and prospects for a sustainable social and economic development in the EU. ACCREU will identify challenges, highlight opportunities and deliver practical solutions to policy making and societal actors at the EU, EU Member State, region and community level to accelerate a just societal transformation towards climate resilience in the short, medium and long term.

ACLIMAS SWIM – Adaptation to Climate Change of the Mediterranean Agricultural System

A project funded within the Sustainable Water Integrated Management (SWIM) to bring a durable improvement in the agricultural water management and a broader economic development in target areas in the context of adaptation to climate change, increasing water scarcity, and desertification risk.

ACQUAOUNT: Adapting to Climate change by QUantifying optimal Allocation of water resOUrces and socio-ecoNomic inTerlinkages

Agriculture is by far the most water demanding sector in the Mediterranean and a sustainable use of water, combined with economic growth, cannot be achieved without improving irrigation efficiency and water productivity. The current heavy depletion of water sources is leading to water scarcity and degradation, deterioration of ecosystem services, conflicts with domestic and industrial uses and, in general, it poses limitations to economic growth. These trends will be exacerbated by CC. The ACQUAOUNT project aims to improve IWRM and sustainable irrigation through the deployment of innovative tools, smart water services and solutions, for public and private use, while contributing to climate resilience.

ACTION – Assessing Climate TransItion OptioNs: policy vs impacts

ACTION is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship aimed at enhancing transparency and comparability of domestic climate policies while offering insights into a fair and just transition.

ADB – Strengthening Planning Capacity for Low Carbon Growth in Developing Asia

This technical assistance is designed to facilitate developing Asia’s transition toward low-carbon development pathway and aims to be a platform for knowledge-sharing, policy dialogue and cooperation.

ADB: Economy-wide costs of climate change in South and South-East Asia

The technical assistance will provide an economy-wide assessment of cost of climate change impacts in South and South-East Asia.

AdJUST – ADVANCING THE UNDERSTANDING OF CHALLENGES, POLICY OPTIONS AND MEASURES TO ACHIEVE A JUST EU ENERGY TRANSITION

AdJUST is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme. and carried out by a transdisciplinary European consortium consisting of 9 EU partners, 2 UK associated partners and other 11 EU associated partners. The objectives of AdJUST are to achieve a step change in societal understanding of the distributive repercussions of the transition to climate neutrality, and to identify effective and actively-supported policy interventions to accompany climate action so that no-one is left behind.

ADRIADAPT – A Resilience information platform for Adriatic cities and towns

ADRIADAPT aims at promoting local and regional resilience by developing the knowledge base required to identify suitable climate adaptation and planning options, thereby enabling local authorities to respond to policy needs related to climate action in urban and coastal zones of the project area (coastal regions of Italy and Croatia along the Adriatic Sea).

APAT – Climate change impacts in Italy and adaptation policies

The research project aims to assess the socio-economic impacts of climate change and analyse the costs/benefits of adaptation strategies in specific areas at risk in Italy

ARTEMis: AleRT and impact-forecast standards for Emergency Management

ARTEMis will pave the way towards a new era of harmonised, standardised protocols, tools and procedures for emergency management and risk awareness in a pan-European level.

AtlantECO – Atlantic ECOsystems assessment, forecasting & sustainability

The EU-funded AtlantECO project aims to develop and apply a novel, unifying framework that provides knowledge-based resources for a better understanding and management of the Atlantic Ocean and its ecosystem services. AtlantECO will engage with citizens and actors from the industry and policy sectors in order to stimulate responsible behaviour and Blue Growth. The project focuses on three pillars of research: microbiomes, plastic and the plastisphere, and seascape connectivity. In pursuit of this goal, AtlantECO is bringing together experts and pioneers from Europe, South America and South Africa with the relevant resources, knowledge and experience.

AVOID 2 – The effects of incomplete and delayed participation on the cost of climate policy 2

AVOID 2 is the follow-up of the first AVOID project which took place from 2009 to 2013. The research project, funded by UK government, will provide scientifically-robust, policy-relevant answers to questions directly related to UNFCCC.

BASE – Bottom-up Climate Adaptation Strategies towards a Sustainable Europe

A project that aims to provide policy guidelines for climate adaptation by integrating lessons from past experiences, case studies, insights provided by modelling and stakeholder participation.

BELIEFS: Climate-related Beliefs and Low-Carbon Transition Dynamics

The transitioning to a low-carbon society, as mandated by the Paris Agreement and net-zero targets, requires substantial investments. These decisions rely heavily on firms’ expectations, yet significant knowledge gaps exist: current models can’t fully assess their impact, empirical data is limited, and there’s little understanding of what drives their evolution and how to align them with climate goals. Misaligned expectations risk failure or disorderly decarbonisation. The BELIEFS project will lay the foundations of a novel analytical framework capable of shedding light on the complex interaction between firms’ beliefs, investment decision-making and climate policy strategies, so as to identify credible paths to a netzero society. The project will deliver a methodological breakthrough by developing a dynamic transition model with a realistic representation of expectations as heterogeneous, evolving and interdependent. A large survey will provide the first comprehensive empirical assessment of transition expectations and their influence on decisions. The results of the project will be pivotal in identifying effective policy and institutional strategies to ensure alignment of beliefs, thereby enabling a swift and orderly decarbonisation process. Over the course of five years, BELIEFS aims to offer pioneering interdisciplinary contributions to advance our understanding of the macro-behavioural dimensions of low-carbon transitions, integrating elements from climate economics, transition theory, behavioural sciences and political economy.

BEZOS EARTH FUND project – Navigating Fiscal Challenges of the Clean Energy Transition

Navigating Fiscal Challenges of the Clean Energy Transition is a project funded by the BEZOS EARTH FUND. This project will be conducted as part of the Green Macroeconomic Modeling Initiative (GMMI) facilitated by the Bezos Earth Fund.

BID – Building an inclusive identity to fight inequality

The project studies economic and racial/ethnic inequality by analyzing the determinants of individuals’ willingness to redistribute in favor of disadvantaged people. Through a multi-disciplinary, quali-quantitative approach, the project will test the effectiveness of measure centered on the role of identity aimed at improving the attitude towards redistribution and, as such, at reducing inequality. The scope of the project embraces economic, psychological and sociological perspectives on the perception of economic and racial/ethnic inequality, and grounds on multifaceted approaches and literature about redistribution and identity.

BRIDGE – SustainaBle uRban plannIng Decision support accountinG for urban mEtabolism

The project focuses on the understanding of patterns of energy and material flows through the urban community’s economy to provide a systemic reading of the present situation for goal and objective setting and development of indicators for sustainability.

C3-Alps – Capitalizing Climate Change Knowledge for Adaptation in the Alpine Space

C3-Alps is a transnational capitalisation project co-funded by the Alpine Space programme that seeks to synthesize, transfer, and implement in policy and practice the best available adaptation to climate change knowledge in the Alps.

CALDAM-ENV Link – Calibration of projected climate change damages in ENV-Linkages

The purpose of this tender is to assist the OECD in implementing the various components of climate change damages in the ENV-Linkages model, by sharing their expertise with calibrating damages in their own models, ICES and WITCH.

CAPABLE – ClimAte Policy AcceptaBiLity Economic framework

CAPABLE is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme. and carried out by a transdisciplinary European consortium consisting of 10 partner institutions and universities across Europe and is coordinated by the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC). CAPABLE will provide robust, resilient and actionable recommendations for the design of socially and economically acceptable climate policy measures for 2030 and beyond

CASCADE – Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for WAter Resources and Human LivelihoodS in the Coastal Zones of Small IslAnd Developing StatEs

This project focuses on designing and promoting multi-stakeholder climate change adaptation in the water and sanitation sector in Small Island Developing States with an aim to improving human livelihoods

CASCADES – CAScading Climate risks: towards ADaptive and resilient European Societies

CASCADES project strives to understand the conditions under which climate risks propagate beyond their geographical and temporal location in ways that may affect European stability and cohesion. It does so via a broad 360° risk assessment and deeper thematic analyses of trade, value chain, financial and political connections between Europe and the rest of the world.

CD-LINKS – Linking Climate and Development Policies – Leveraging International Networks and Knowledge Sharing

CD-LINKS project aims at exploring the complex interplay between climate action and development while simultaneously taking both global and national perspectives. It will fill this critical knowledge gap and provide much-needed information for designing complementary climate-development policies.

CIFTRESS – Climatic Impact on Food Trade RESilience and Security

CIFTRESS project examines the joint climate, agro-environmental, and economic induced changes to the trade network topologies of five staple foods up to the year 2050 in the European and Mediterranean region.

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2D4D – Disruptive Digitalization for Decarbonization