ENGAGE is a global consortium of international and multidisciplinary leading research groups, that is coordinated by IIASA, aims 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

Associated Partners

ENGAGE works in close collaboration with its sister project: Next Generation of Advanced Integrated Assessment Modelling to Support Climate Policy Making (NAVIGATE). 

Policy Briefs

Scenario ensembles and database resources
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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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Kazlou, T., Cherp, A., & Jewell, J. (2024). Feasible deployment of carbon capture and storage and the requirements of climate targets. Nature Climate Change 14 (10) 1047-1055. 10.1038/s41558-024-02104-0. Frank, S. , Derci Augustynczik, A.L., Havlik, P. , Boere, E., Ermolieva, T., Fricko, O. , Di Fulvio, F. , Gusti, M., Krisztin, T. , Lauri, P., Palazzo, A. , & Wögerer​, M. (2024). Enhanced agricultural carbon sinks provide benefits for farmers and the climate. Nature Food 5 (9) 742-753. 10.1038/s43016-024-01039-1. Bertram, C., Brutschin, E. , Drouet, L., Luderer, G., van Ruijven, B. , Aleluia Reis, L., Baptista, L.B., de Boer, H.-S., Cui, R., Daioglou, V., Fosse, F., Fragkiadakis, D., Fricko, O. , Fujimori, S. , Hultman, N., Iyer, G., Keramidas, K., Krey, V. , Kriegler, E., Lamboll, R.D., Mandaroux, R., Rochedo, P., Rogelj, J. , Schaeffer, R., Silva, D., Tagomori, I., van Vuuren, D., Vrontisi, Z., & Riahi, K. (2024). Feasibility of peak temperature targets in light of institutional constraints. Nature Climate Change 14 954-960. 10.1038/s41558-024-02073-4. Ermolieva, T., Havlik, P. , Derci Augustynczik, A.L., Frank, S. , Balkovič, J. , Skalský, R. , Deppermann, A., Nakhavali, A., Komendantova, N. , Kahil, T. , Wang, G., Folberth, C. , & Knopov, P.S. (2024). Tracking the Dynamics and Uncertainties of Soil Organic Carbon in Agricultural Soils Based on a Novel Robust Meta-Model Framework Using Multisource Data. Sustainability 16 (16) e6849. 10.3390/su16166849. Zhang, S., Chen, W., Zhang, Q., Krey, V. , Byers, E., Rafaj, P. , Nguyen, B. , Awais, M. , & Riahi, K. (2024). Targeting net-zero emissions while advancing other sustainable development goals in China. Nature Sustainability 7 1107-1119. 10.1038/s41893-024-01400-z. Suzuki, M., Jewell, J. , & Cherp, A. (2023). Have climate policies accelerated energy transitions? Historical evolution of electricity mix in the G7 and the EU compared to net-zero targets. Energy Research & Social Science 106 e103281. 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103281. Dekker, M.M., Daioglou, V., Pietzcker, R., Rodrigues, R., de Boer, H.-S., Dalla Longa, F., Drouet, L., Emmerling, J., Fattahi, A., Fotiou, T., Fragkos, P., Fricko, O. , Gusheva, E., Harmsen, M., Huppmann, D. , Kannavou, M., Krey, V. , Lombardi, F., Luderer, G., Pfenninger, S., Tsiropoulos, I., Zakeri, B. , van der Zwaan, B., Usher, W., & van Vuuren, D. (2023). Identifying energy model fingerprints in mitigation scenarios. Nature Energy 10.1038/s41560-023-01399-1. Werning, M., Frank, S. , Hooke, D., Nguyen, B. , Rafaj, P. , Satoh, Y., Wögerer​, M., Krey, V. , Riahi, K. , van Ruijven, B. , & Byers, E. (2023). Climate Solutions Explorer - hazard, impacts and exposure data. 10.5281/zenodo.10212339. Lamboll, R.D., Nicholls, Z.R.J. , Smith, C.J. , Kikstra, J.S. , Byers, E. , & Rogelj, J. (2023). Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets. Nature Climate Change 10.1038/s41558-023-01848-5. Jäger, J., Battersby, S., & van Ruijven, B. (2023). Stakeholder engagement in climate change solutions. IIASA Policy Brief. Laxenburg, Austria: PB-42 Bertram, C., Brutschin, E. , Riahi, K. , van Ruijven, B. , & Battersby, S. (2023). Feasible futures. IIASA Policy Brief. Laxenburg, Austria: PB-41 van Ruijven, B. , Jäger, J., Riahi, K. , Battersby, S., Bertram, C., Bosetti, V., Brutschin, E. , Byers, E. , Cherp, A., Drouet, L., Fujimori, S. , Krey, V. , Schaeffer, R., Schmidt Tagomori, I., van Vuuren, D., Vrontisi, Z., & ENGAGE Consortium (2023). ENGAGE Summary for Policymakers. IIASA Policy Brief. Laxenburg, Austria Schmidt Tagomori, I., Dafnomilis, I., Fricko, O. , Richters, O., Bertram, C., Drouet, L., Aleluia, L., Fosse, F., Vrontisi, Z., & Fragkiadakis, D. (2023). ENGAGE post-Glasgow long-term strategies. 10.5281/zenodo.10009462. Vinichenko, V., Jewell, J. , Jacobsson, J., & Cherp, A. (2023). Historical diffusion of nuclear, wind and solar power in different national contexts: implications for climate mitigation pathways. Environmental Research Letters 18 (9) e094066. 10.1088/1748-9326/acf47a. Ren, M., Huang, C., Wu, Y., Deppermann, A., Frank, S. , Havlik, P. , Zhu, Y., Fang, C., Ma, X., Liu, Y., Zhao, H., Chang, J., Ma, L., Bai, Z., Xu, S., & Dai, H. (2023). Enhanced food system efficiency is the key to China’s 2060 carbon neutrality target. Nature Food 4 552-564. 10.1038/s43016-023-00790-1. Sferra, F., Fricko, O. , Byers, E. , Werning, M., Krey, V. , Riahi, K. , & van Ruijven, B. (2023). Climate Solutions Explorer - downscaled country-level IAM scenarios. 10.5281/zenodo.7971573. Fricko, O. , Frank, S. , Gidden, M. , Huppmann, D. , Johnson, N., Kishimoto, P. , Kolp, P., Lovat, F., McCollum, D., Min, J. , Rao, Shilpa, Riahi, K. , Rogner, H. , van Ruijven, B. , Vinca, A. , Zakeri, B. , Derci Augustynczik, A.L., Deppermann, A., Ermolieva, T., Gusti, M., Lauri, P., Heyes, C. , Schöpp, W. , Klimont, Z. , Havlik, P. , & Krey, V. (2023). MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM R11 no-policy baseline. 10.5281/zenodo.5793869. Jewell, J. & Cherp, A. (2023). The feasibility of climate action: Bridging the inside and the outside view through feasibility spaces. WIREs Climate Change 14 (5) e838. 10.1002/wcc.838. Vinichenko, V., Vetier, M., Jewell, J. , Nacke, L., & Cherp, A. (2023). Phasing out coal for 2 °C target requires worldwide replication of most ambitious national plans despite security and fairness concerns. Environmental Research Letters 18 (1) e014031. 10.1088/1748-9326/acadf6. Jäger, J., Brutschin, E. , Pianta, S., Omann, I., Kammerlander, M., Sudharmma Vishwanathan, S., Vrontisi, Z., MacDonald, J., & van Ruijven, B. (2023). Stakeholder engagement and decarbonization pathways: Meeting the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Sustainability 3 10.3389/frsus.2022.1063719.

Events

Villa Grumello, Como Lake, Italy

NAVIGATE-ENGAGE Summer School 2023

Beijing, China.

ENGAGE Stakeholder Workshop

Bonn Marriott Hotel, Germany

ELEVATE/ENGAGE/COMMITTED International Co-Creation workshop