Synergies

ACHIEVE seeks to enhance and expand high-integrity voluntary climate action to help reach net-zero emissions by 2050. The project will produce critical scientific insights into the effectiveness and credibility of voluntary initiatives, including carbon credit systems. It will evaluate the integrity and real-world impacts of these actions while examining how policies and voluntary efforts can mutually reinforce each other. Using evidence-based research, ACHIEVE aims to support the scaling up of trustworthy voluntary climate measures. Stay informed by signing up for updates.

DIAMOND will update, upgrade, and fully open six IAMs that are emblematic in scientific and policy processes, improving their sectoral and technological detail, spatiotemporal resolution, and geographic granularity. It will further enhance modelling capacity to assess the feasibility and desirability of Paris-compliant mitigation pathways, their interplay with adaptation, circular economy, and other SDGs, their distributional and equity effects, and their resilience to extremes, as well as robust risk management and investment strategies. This will be done via integration of tools and insights from psychology, finance research, behavioural and labour economics, operational research, and physical science. We will develop a transdisciplinary scientific approach to legitimise the implementation process and co-create research questions that stretch the frontiers of climate science, as well as establish vibrant communities of practice to transparently open model enhancements and to develop capacities, thereby lowering the entrance barriers to the established IAM community.

DEMETRA seeks to reduce tensions between democratic governance and sustainability transitions by studying new deliberative participatory processes (DPPs) across seven European countries: Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The project examines macro-level institutional, meso-level organizational, and micro-level individual factors using a cross-national comparative approach and mixed-method research. Addressing climate and environmental challenges, DEMETRA aims to develop tools for democratically managing sustainability transformations. It specifically investigates how DPPs can support sustainability transitions, with a focus on the food system as a key area for democratic engagement. The goal is to identify best practices for citizen involvement and collaborative efforts in building sustainable societies.

Funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, CO-SUSTAIN focuses on fostering innovative, non-institutional political participation to accelerate climate action. The key objectives are i) to define and test new democratic pathways, ii) to empower local policymakers to support diverse forms of political participation, and iii) to equip citizens to take meaningful action for a sustainable transition.

GreenDeal-NET (The European Green Deal: Governing the EU’s Transition towards Climate Neutrality and Sustainability) is a Jean Monnet Network co-funded through the EU's Erasmus+ programme. The Network aims to dissect the European Green Deal, and the complex set of governance challenges related to sustainability and climate neutrality it poses and deepen our understanding of what a fair and effective climate transition could look like by focusing on the governance of the European Green Deal, by acting as a platform for collaboration and debate on teaching and research.