The SPARCCLE is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe program, and it is focused on delivering adaptation and mitigation strategies for a just and climate-resilient Europe.
The project aims to support policymaking for action on the socioeconomic risks of climate change, establishing new methodological frameworks to link knowledge across disciplines from research communities working on climate impacts and risks in Europe. Bottom-up assessments of multidimensional climate vulnerabilities, risks, damages, and adaptation will be combined with top-down integrated assessment frameworks (IAFs) and leading multi-sectoral macroeconomic models.
General aims
The ambition of SPARCCLE will be realized through five objectives. Objectives 1-3 will develop and implement leading-edge scientific methodologies in climate impacts, socioeconomic vulnerabilities, and integrated assessment of socioeconomic risks of climate change, including investigation of EU and global mitigation-adaptation synergies and trade-offs considering cross-sectoral linkages and spillover effects. Objectives 4 and 5 focus on methodological and scenario co-design activities with various stakeholders toward establishing a truly transdisciplinary method.
CMCC role
CMCC is partner in the Consortium.
Activities
CMCC will be mainly involved in:
- WP3 – Granular assessment and projections of multi-dimensional socioeconomic vulnerabilities, leading Task 3.4: Estimate uncertain climate change impacts on labour, capital and welfare;
- WP5 – Integrated analysis of impacts-adaptation-mitigation synergies and trade-offs & societal transformation, leading Task 5.3: Socioeconomic and distributional implications of climate transition including impacts and adaptation.
Expected results
SPARCCLE will deliver the next generation of climate impacts and adaptation frameworks that can explore, quantify, and inform societal transformations toward climate-resilient futures. Underpinned by a probabilistic, multi-sectoral assessment of climate impacts and extremes across Europe and integrated with our understanding of multidimensional vulnerabilities and societal response capacities to respond, climate-resilient strategies that jointly consider mitigation and adaptation will be developed.
SPARCCLE will support decision-making for action on climate-driven socioeconomic risks and enable the better identification of adaptation strategies and sustainable transformations that are robust and resilient to climate and socioeconomic uncertainties.
Coordinating organization
INTERNATIONALES INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMANALYSE (IIASA), Austria
Partners
- CLIMATE ANALYTICS GMBH (CA), Germany
- POTSDAM-INSTITUT FUR KLIMAFOLGENFORSCHUNG EV (PIK), Germany
- VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL (VUB), Belgium
- E3-MODELLING AE (E3M), Greece
- INSTYTUT OCHRONY SRODOWISKA – PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT BADAWCZY (IOS-PIB), Poland
- MINISTERIE VAN INFRASTRUCTUUR EN WATERSTAAT (PBL), Netherland
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE (UNIFI), Italy
- EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH (ETH Zürich) – Switzerland
- JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE- EUROPEAN COMMISSION (JRC), Belgium
- IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE (Imperial), United Kingdom