ACROPOLIS: Assessing Climate Response Options: Policy Simulations, Insights from using national and international models, for European Commission, DG Research
The Consortium, with this project, intends to focus on the following objectives:
- Bridge the communication gap between modellers and policy-makers;
- Address policy questions that are currently relevant to the main stakeholders, i.e. policymakers and their policy advisors, both at the regional or country level and at the global level.
- Investigate the role of different policies and measures in reducing GHG emissions and fostering deployment of more advanced and climate-friendly energy technologies.
Project Coordinator
Institute of Energy Economics and the Rational Use of Energy, (IER)
Partners
- Institute for Prospective Technology Study, (IPTS/JRC)
- Netherlands Energy Research Foundation, (ECN)
- Ente per le Nuove technologie, i' Energia e l'Ambiente, (ENEA)
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, (IIASA)
- E3M-Lab, Institute of Communication and Computer System, (ICCS)
- Energy Systems Technology, Chalmers University of Technology (EST)
- Groupe d' Etudes et Recherches en Analyse des Decisions, (GERAD)
- National Institute for Environmental Studies, (NIES)
- Paul Scherer Institute, (PSI)
- Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth, (RITE)
