New Pathways for Equitable Climate Action in Line with the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development (NEWPATHWAYS)

The project aims to inform solutions for breaking these deadlocks and strengthening climate action by combining the development of next-generation global and national low-emission transformation pathways with an analysis of opportunities, risks, synergies and trade-offs associated with these pathways using knowledge from the social sciences, economics and policy analysis.

The project emphasizes co-creation with stakeholders from the private and public sectors to ensure the relevance of outcomes and improve accessibility to tools. Dissemination efforts include policy briefs, high-level policy meetings, and international conferences, aiming to engage a broad audience and ensure the practical application of project findings​

Main Objectives of NEWPATHWAYS:

1. Establish a sound understanding of current climate policy trends across the world and use this information to promote enhanced transparency, consistency, and clarity in GHG emission reduction commitments.
2. Establish the next-generation of global transformation pathways exploring solutions to “bend the global emissions curve” as quickly and deeply as possible, while promoting synergies and minimizing trade-offs between mitigation, adaption, biodiversity and other sustainable development objectives.
3. Identify and analyze new national low-emission development pathways that align with global pathways consistent with the long-term objective of the Paris Agreement.
4. Identify opportunities to leverage equity and finance to strengthen collective climate action.
5. Co-create knowledge and build capacity with scenario users.

Project Partners: 

• Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung e.V (PIK, Germany) - Coordinator
• Internationales Institut fuer angewandte Systemanalyse (IIASA, Austria)
• Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat (PBL, Netherlands)
• Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC, Italy)
• E3-Modelling AE (E3M, Germany)
• NewClimate Institute for Climate Policy and Global Sustainability gGmbH (NC, Germany)
• The chancellor, masters and scholars of the University of Oxford (UOX, United Kingdom)
• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Brazil)
• Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA, India)
• International University - Vietnam National University HCM city (IU-VNUHCM, Vietnam)
• Strathmore University (SU, Kenya)
• Stichting Climate Strategies (SCS, Netherlands)
• Climate Strategies (CS, Netherlands)

Associated Partners:

• Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (ETH, Switzerland)
• Universite de Geneve (UNIGE, France)
• Peking University (PKU, China)
• Tsinghua University (TU, China)
• King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC, Saudi Arabia)
• University of Seoul Industry Cooperation Foundation (UOS, South Korea)
• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST, South Korea)
• Council on energy, environment and water (CEEW, India)
• Kyoto university (KU, Japan)
• Energy Foundation China (EFC, China)
• The University of Maryland Foundatiion Inc (USMF, USA)
• Asian Institute of Technology (AIT, Austria)

Funding Acknowledgements

Funded by the European Union under grant agreement No. 101183367. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.