Research projects Archive - Page 6 of 6

REPAIR will develop first-of-its kind technological proof of concept to remove non-CO2 gases like CH4 and N2O from diluted sources, including from the atmosphere. Two process routes are proposed: (i) capture, concentration and storage/conversion (ii) direct catalytic conversion.

ROSE – Roadmaps towards Sustainable Energy Futures. A Model-Based Assessment of Scenarios For Decarbonising the Energy System in the 21st Century

The RoSE project bring together leading energy-economy researchers from Europe and the US to perform a coordinated, model-based analysis in order to reach robust conclusions about the economics of climate policy.

SAFERPLACES – Improved assessment of pluvial, fluvial and coastal flood hazards and risks in European cities as a mean to build safer and resilient communities

SAFERPLACES employs innovative climate, hydrological and hydraulic, topographic and economic modelling techniques to assess pluvial, fluvial and coastal flood hazard and risk in urban environments under current and future climates. The service is designed to support the identification and assessment of flood risk mitigation measures and plans, inform climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies, and help to foster multi-stakeholder agreements and partnership for resilience building. SAFERPLACES builds upon the successfully completed 2017 Climate KIC Pathfinder project ‘PLACES – Pluvial flood hazard and risk assessment and mitigation in European cities’.

SAM-PS – Study on Adaptation Modelling

DG Climate Action awarded this tender to a group of 4 partners lead by CMCC. SAM-PS project focuses in a broad and comprehensive manner on adaptation modelling. Its overall objective is to support better-informed decision-making on adaptation, which is among the priority areas of the EU Strategy on adaptation to climate change.

SEA-LIMITHS: Sea Level Rise Impacts on Italian Hospitality

SEA-LIMITHS is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship Project. The aim of this project is to investigate the impacts and economic consequences of sea level rise on sandy beaches and beach hospitality losses owing to beach erosion and flooding in Italy.

SEICA-NENA – Study on the economic impact of climate change on agricultural labour and cost of adaptation in NENA

SEICA-NENA is a consultant service for FAO for analyzing i) the impact of climate change on labour supply, ii) the income in the agricultural sector in the NENA region; and iii) the effectiveness and the cost of possible adaptation measures in the agricultural sector.

SICAB – Sino Italian capacity building for environmental protection

The project is dedicated to high-level training services in the fields of sustainable development and environmental management in the framework of Italy-China bilateral cooperation. The training offer includes training modules divided into two years and consisting of modules to be delivered in Italy, and 9 modules to be delivered in China. The project includes not only training activities but also communication, business matching, monitoring and evaluation activities, the use of the Learning Management System platform and the Giornate Italia.

SIDS2 – Climate Change Assessment in Small Pacific Island States

This project aims to enhance the scientific, economic and human adaptive capacity of Pacific Island Countries to climate change and related hazards risks, through the application of participatory approaches, economic analysis of the implication of global climate change policies and measures for Pacific Island Countries.

SIMARIS – Strategic Investments in Mitigation, Adaptation and Resource Recovery Innovations at Basin Scale

SIMARIS is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship Project. The aim of this project is to develop a long-term macro-economic growth model integrated with water-land-energy systems, that will be implemented to the case of Central Asia.

SINCERE – Strengthening INternational Cooperation on climatE change REsearch

SINCERE aims to strengthen the delivery of the JPI Climate Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, building on existing collaborations, such as the business sector and global financial institutions, and other key international research, policy and societal actors.

SMOOTH – Sustainable Finance for a Smooth Low-Carbon Transition

The threat of climate change calls for a rapid transition to a low-carbon society. Aligning the financial system with climate stability is a crucial prerequisite for achieving decarbonization while preserving economic prosperity and societal welfare. However, we currently lack a comprehensive understanding of how the institutional and behavioural features of financial systems may affect the speed and shape of the low-carbon transition. Additionally, the coevolving socioeconomic, financial and environmental repercussions of such a large-scale societal transformation have not yet been systematically analyzed. The SMOOTH project will lay the foundations of an innovative macro-financial analytical framework to provide essential insights on the links between financial systems and decarbonization dynamics.

SNAC – Elements to develop a National Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change

A project aimed at developing guidelines for a National Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change in Italy.

SPARCCLE – Socioeconomic Pathways, Adaptation and Resilience to Changing CLimate in Europe

The SPARCCLE is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe program, and it is focused on delivering adaptation and mitigation strategies for a just and climate-resilient Europe. The project aims to support policymaking for action on the socioeconomic risks of climate change, establishing new methodological frameworks to link knowledge across disciplines from research communities working on climate impacts and risks in Europe. Bottom-up assessments of multidimensional climate vulnerabilities, risks, damages, and adaptation will be combined with top-down integrated assessment frameworks (IAFs) and leading multi-sectoral macroeconomic models.

SPLASH – EUROPEAN WATER INITIATIVE – ERA-NET : Coordinating European water research for povertry reduction

The SPLASH Project will establish a framework for long term communication, collaboration and coordination of member state research programmes related to water issues in developing countries.

STEAM+ – Innovating STE(A)M in Higher Education with Transdisciplinary Talent Programs

STEAM+is a large-scale innovative project with a holistic approach, aiming to provide educational policy makers with instruments to prepare new generations for handling the challenges of our time.

TABASCO – Plan of Adaptation Measures to reduce Vulnerability of Lagoon System Carmen-Pajonal-Machona, Tabasco, to Impacts created by Climate Change and Human Activities

The lagoon system Carmen-Pajonal-Machona is located in the Gulf of Mexico and has an area of 190 km2. Anthropogenic change, mainly due to oil extraction, has changed the hydrodynamic, morphological and ecological characteristics of the lagoon system. Other causes of alteration are: agricultural development, deforestation and industrial development. In addition to these problems, which already make the system vulnerable, there are further problems due to the impact of climate change. The project aims at designing adaptation measures to climate change, which will be managed by local communities.

TALANOA-WATER – Talanoa Water Dialogue for Transformational Adaptation to Water Scarcity Under Climate Change

TALANOA-WATER aims at informing and catalyzing the adoption of robust transformational adaptation strategies to water scarcity under climate change that contribute to the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) objectives of social equity, economic efficiency and environmental sustainability.

TIMES-CGE soft-link methodology and interface

This project will develop and test a methodology for soft-linking bottom-up models of the TIMES “family” with a computable general equilibrium model type.

TRANSFORMAR – Accelerating and upscaling transformational adaptation in Europe: demonstration of water-related innovation packages

TransformAr aims to develop and demonstrate solutions and pathways to achieve rapid and far-reaching transformational adaptation across the EU. Cross-sectoral and multi-scale innovation packages, as the combination of solutions and pathways, will support regions and communities in their societal transformation towards climate change resilience. Transformational adaptation (TA) will be triggered by a co-innovation process that will co-create transformational adaptation pathways for six demonstrator regions and communities in Europe.

UNITES: Uncertainty Integration for a Transition in Energy and Sustainability

Geopolitical and socio-economic uncertainties are putting the European and Global energy transitions at stake. These deep uncertainties affect the analytical assessments underpinning energy and climate policies. For example, the models used to inform energy planning rely on uncertain forecasts and assumptions for future energy demands, macroeconomic indicators, social acceptance, fuel prices, technology costs, and climate scenarios. Due to fundamental methodological, computational, and data challenges, this uncertainty is at best rarely considered in energy planning, which increases the risk of failing to meet our urgent climate targets. This makes accounting for uncertainty one of the major unsolved problems in energy planning. UNITES addresses these limitations to enable a new paradigm for long-term energy planning. In contrast to current approaches, which try to accurately predict the future, UNITES’ ambition is a systematic integration of uncertainty in energy-climate models.

UPTAKE: Bridging current knowledge gaps to enable the UPTAKE of carbon dioxide removal methods

UPTAKE aims to facilitate the sustainable upscaling of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods by developing a set of robust strategies through technical, theoretical, and practical analysis accompanied by interactive dialogue within a CDR stakeholder forum. As a result, UPTAKE will develop a harmonised, comprehensive, inclusive, integrated, and transparent CDR knowledge inventory to evaluate a wide range of CDR technologies and methods, quantifying their national, European, and global costs, effectiveness, and removal potential as well as risks, constraints, and side-effects at different scales, and their prospects of technological progress. The UPTAKE approach will allow the assessment of geographical, sectoral, socioeconomic, demographic, and temporal trade-offs, co-benefits, and opportunities emerging from portfolios of different CDR methods. The enhanced socio-technical understanding of CDR methods will feed into an ensemble of state-of-the-art integrated assessment models (IAMs), which will help improve the integration of CDR methods given the EU policy objectives set for 2030, 2050, and beyond climate neutrality. UPTAKE will assess CDR governance and policy frameworks considering social acceptance, accountability, monitoring, and regulations for sustainable CDR rollout at scale. As a result, UPTAKE will generate an open and interactive CDR roadmap explorer to investigate strategies that are resilient to risks of failure and disruption, and minimise adverse impacts on society, economy, and the environment, aiming for a just, inclusive, and sustainable transition.

Projects

REPAIR – Removing non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions to support ambitious climate transitions