ENGAGE is a global consortium of international and multidisciplinary leading research groups, coordinated by IIASA, aiming to co-produce knowledge for designing cost-effective, technologically sound, socially and politically feasible pathways that can meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement. ENGAGE will also quantify avoided climate change impacts at the regional and national levels and identify concrete policy portfolios that maximize co-benefits and minimize trade-offs.
Knowledge co-production will be achieved through an iterative stakeholder dialogue process that will include workshops, surveys and frequent interactions and feedback among scientists, policy makers, civil society, the private sector, and other key stakeholders. ENGAGE will be inclusive of major emitters and selected developing countries which will ensure the credibility and legitimacy of the scientific and policy insights.
ENGAGE will also address a historical shortcoming of IAM-based pathways — insufficient attention to social, political, and certain technological constraints and enablers of mitigation efforts — by developing and operationalizing the concept of multidimensional feasibility of decarbonization policies and pathways. To accomplish this, ENGAGE will utilize empirical analysis, statekholder dialogue, and conceptual insights from the social sciences to develop a tool which will subsequently be used to assess and improve the feasibility of decarbonization pathways.
ENGAGE will quantify avoided climate change impacts through analysis of the exposure and associated costs for individual sectors and regions to climate change at different levels of and timing for global peak temperature. A particular focus will be on quantifying the benefits (or trade-offs) of climate policies on biodiversity, food, poverty, water, air quality, health, and employment, particularly for vulnerable populations.
Partners
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (Austria) – Coordinator
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) (Germany)
- PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (Netherlands)
- Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) (Italy)
- E3 Modelling (Greece)
- Central European University (Hungary)
- COPPE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) (India)
- National Institute for Environmental Studies (Japan)
- NewClimate Institute (Germany)
- National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russia) | until April 2022
- Wageningen University (Netherlands)
- Tsinghua University (China)
- Energy Research Institute (China)
- National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (China)
- Indian Institute of Management (IIMA) (India)
- Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) (Japan)
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Korea)
- University of Seoul Industry Cooperation Foundation (Korea)
- Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology – Thammasat University (Thailand)
- International University – Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
- Bandung Institute of Technology (Indonesia)
- Jill Jaeger (Austria)
- Utrecht University (Netherlands)
- Kyoto University (Japan)
Associated Partners
- Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) (United States)
- SHURA Energy Transition Center (Turkey)
- TNO (Netherlands)
ENGAGE works in close collaboration with its sister project: Next Generation of Advanced Integrated Assessment Modelling to Support Climate Policy Making (NAVIGATE).
© European Union
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 821471 (ENGAGE).
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News
12 August 2024
Balancing technology and governance are key to achieving climate goals
Despite advancements in clean energy, global CO2 emissions continue to rise. IIASA researchers contributed to a new international study that underscores the importance of integrating technological advancements with robust institutional capacities to formulate effective climate policies.
20 July 2023
Introducing the Climate Solutions Explorer
IIASA recently launched the Climate Solutions Explorer – a comprehensive resource that visualizes and presents vital data about climate mitigation, climate impacts, vulnerabilities, and risks arising from development and climate change.
Events
Brussels, European Commission DG CLIMA (Breydel 2, Meeting Room Floor 005 Room 374-402-416)
Accelerating Climate Action Towards a Rapid and Just Transition
Gothenburg, Sweden / Virtual Event
Insights from the ENGAGE Project at the upcoming ECEMP
Online Webinar