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CD-LINKS: Linking Climate and Development Policies - Leveraging International Networks and Knowledge Sharing, funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

An important question for policy makers, in the G20 and beyond, is how to bring climate action into the broader sustainable development agenda. Objectives like energy poverty eradication, increased well-being and welfare, air quality improvement, energy security enhancement, and food and water availability will continue to remain important over the next several decades. There have been relatively few scientific analyses, however, that have explored the complex interplay between climate action and development while simultaneously taking both global and national perspectives. The CD-LINKS project will change this, filling this critical knowledge gap and providing much-needed information for designing complementary climate-development policies.

CD-LINKS has four overarching goals:

  1. to gain an improved understanding of the linkages between climate change policies (mitigation/adaptation) and multiple sustainable development objectives,
  2. to broaden the evidence base in the area of policy effectiveness by exploring past and current policy experiences,
  3. to develop the next generation of globally consistent, national low-carbon development pathways, and
  4. to establish a research network and capacity building platform in order to leverage knowledge-exchange among institutions from Europe and other key players within the G20.
Project Coordinator

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Partners
  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
  • Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC)
  • Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment (PBL)
  • Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS/E3MLab)
  • Wageningen University (WU)
  • University of East Anglia (UEA)
  • Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI)
  • Energy Planning Program, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (COPPE)
  • National Development and Reform Commission Energy Research Institute (NDRC-ERI)
  • Tsinghua University (TU)
  • Indian Institute of Management (IIM)
  • The Energy Resources Institute (TERI)
  • National Research University – Higher School of Economics (HSE)
  • National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)
  • Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)
  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

For further information please visit CD-LINKS website