General objectives
The overall aim of CAPABLE is to develop and operationalize multi-objective decision making frameworks to help evaluate effective, yet socially and politically feasible, climate and environmental policies in Europe.
This will be accomplished through five objectives:

1. Develop new methods for socio-economic decision-making, addressing issues of deep uncertainty, social heterogeneity of actors, behavioural responses and biases, and multi-objective welfare measurement.
2. Enhance the empirical knowledge of public perceptions of climate policies, in particular on determinants of public support and opposition driving the political feasibility of climate policies.
3. Synthesize the rich literature on climate policy impact evaluation, with a focus on policy implementation and sequencing, and inform policies of the Fit for 55 package with the best available scientific evidence.
4. Analyse the role of policymakers at various levels, from the European and national levels to regional city levels, as well as recent citizen engagement initiatives.
5. Design actionable and effective climate policy recommendations to be disseminated and exploited, and develop an online policy evaluation tool.

CMCC role
Project Coordinator and WP leader in WP6. CMCC will co-lead also the WP5 and will lead some tasks in the project (Task 3.2; task 3.3; task 4.2; task 5.3 aand all the management tasks).

Activities
CAPABLE activities will develop into six workpackages, one of which (WP6) is devoted to Management and Coordination):
WP1 – Methodological advancement: this WP aims to move beyond traditional welfare and cost-effectiveness approaches by improving the methodological foundations of policy evaluation.
WP2 – Social acceptability and feasibility: this WP will empirically assess the social and political feasibility of the EU green deal policy packages.
WP3 – Evaluation of European Climate and Environmental Policies: The aim of this WP is to utilize advanced methods for evaluating climate policies with a focus on EU climate and
environmental policies and the Fit-fo-55 package.
WP4 – Environmental policy-making: this WP zooms in on policy-makers – agents who use scientific knowledge and apply their own preferences, in a given institutional context – and on processes of citizen engagement, both as determinants of environmental policy outcomes.
WP5 – Co-design, Capacity Building, Dissemination and Communication: this WP is focused on the communication and dissemination of project results from the preceding WPs and particularly on the application and usability of scientific policy evaluation evidence for all the stakeholders targeted by the project.

Expected results
CAPABLE will examine past experience, policy design and implementation solutions to identify strategies that can enable a successful transition. We will achieve this by addressing climate, economic, and social challenges. In order to do so, we will draw on economic methods of decision making and policy evaluation, and sociology, political sciences and psychology to capture the multidimensional outcomes and implications of different climate policy instruments. Moreover, we will produce a number of new datasets, and apply state-of-the-art methods to produce new insights on policy perception and performance. Finally, we will integrate the
scientific evidence, an interactive stakeholder dialogue, and various dissemination channels including a new online policy tool as a user-oriented service for climate policy-makers at the EU, national, and local level. Taken together, the methodological and empirical advancements will provide broader evidence for desirable climate strategies in Europe, along with lessons for the rest of the world.

Partners
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE (EUI), Italy
INSTITUT D’ECONOMIE SCIENTIFIQUE ET DE GESTION (IESEG), France
POTSDAM-INSTITUT FUR KLIMAFOLGENFORSCHUNG EV (PIK), Germany
MERCATOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON GLOBAL COMMONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE (MCC), Germany
UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA (UAB), Spain
UNIVERZITA KARLOVA (CUNI), Czechia
RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN (RUG), Netherlands
CRIMI JACOPO (E6), Italy
EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH (ETH), Switzerland