AMPERE: Assessment of Climate Change Mitigation Pathways and Evaluation of the Robustness of Mitigation Cost Estimates, for European Commission, DG Research & Innovation
The project AMPERE is aiming for a broad exploration of mitigation pathways and associated mitigation costs under various real world limitations, while at the same time generating a better understanding about the differences across models, and the relation to historical trends. Uncertainties about the costs of mitigation originate from the entire causal chain ranging from economic activity, to emissions and related technologies, and the response of the carbon cycle and climate system to greenhouse gas emissions. AMPERE will use a sizable ensemble of state-of-the-art energy-economy and integrated assessment models to analyse mitigation pathways and associated mitigation costs in a series of multi-model intercomparisons. It will focus on four central areas: (i) The role of uncertainty about the climate response to anthropogenic forcing on the remaining carbon budget for supplying societies around the globe with energy, (ii) the role of technology availability, innovation and myopia in the energy sector, (iii) the role of policy imperfections like limited regional or sectoral participation in climate policy regimes, and (iv) the implications for decarbonisation scenarios and policies for Europe.
Project coordinator
Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK)
Partners
- Internationales Institut für Angewandte Systemanalyse (IIASA)
- Universiteit Utrecht (UU)
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
- Institute of Communication and Computer Systems - E3MLab (ICCS)
- Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
- Société de mathématiques appliqués aux sciences humaines - Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement (SMASH-CIRED)
- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Laboratoire d’Economie de la Production et de l’Integration Internationale (CNRS-LEPII)
- ENERDATA SA (Enerdata)
- Institute for Prospective Technology Studies (EU-JRC-IPTS)
- Universität Stuttgart (USTUTT-IER)
- Technische Universität Wien (TUW-EEG)
- Centraal Planbureau (CPB)
- Université Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne (ERASME)
- MetOffice Hadley Centre (MetO-Had)
- Climate Analytics (ClimA)
- National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)
- Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)
- National Development and Reform Commission Energy Research Institute (NDRC-ERI)
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM)
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