Outputs

Below, you will be able to find all the outputs, including publications, summary notes and webinar recordings, produced throughout the lifetime of the Climate Recon 2050 project. Before the first outputs of the project are made available, we invite you to explore our collection of Partner Publications: a selection of papers and other documents on the topic of climate strategies, decarbonisation scenarios and long-term climate governance, produced by the project’s partners.

Technical Note 7: Distributional impacts of long-term climate policies

The successful implementation of efforts to accelerate greenhouse gas emissions reduction requires social acceptance, which, in turn, is dependent on distributional impacts that climate action may have on different types of economic actors, sectors and geographies. This note presents the drivers of the transition costs as well as available analytical tools that enable the quantification of the distributional effects of the long-term climate policies.
Date of Publication:
March 2019

Technical Note 6: Modelling net zero emissions

In the last years the aim of "reaching net zero emissions" gained political momentum. Building compliance with the Paris Agreement will require developing policies and measures aiming for this "net zero" goal. In this note we discuss the definition and implication of net zero emissions and conduct comparative analysis of three case studies from Germany, France and Scandinavia.
Date of Publication:
2019

Briefing Note 2: Articulating national climate governance in line with the EU Governance Regulation

The Briefing Note presents the first insights of the Climate Recon 2050 project.

Date of Publication:
March 2019
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Technical Note 5: Developing policy-relevant narratives underlying long-term climate strategies

Judith Voss-Stemping, IDDRI

The Paris Agreement and, recently the European Union (EU) through its new legislation “Regulation for the Governance of the Energy Union”, stipulate upon its parties and members to the EU to develop long-term climate strategies.

Date of Publication:
December 2018

One page overview: National Long-Term Climate Strategies in the EU28

Ewa Iwaszuk, Ecologic Institute

Long-Term Climate Strategies Matrix is a living document that aims to capture existing information on the ongoing processes of long-term climate strategy developments across the EU Member States.

Date of Publication:
2018

Planning for 2050 – shifting the focus towards long-term climate objectives

Climate planning for 2050 has become a core strand of debate in the European Union. Focus has shifted to a potential revision of the EU’s long-term climate objectives within the context of a new 2050 strategy, which is to be submitted to the United Nations under the Paris Agreement by 2020.

Date of Publication:
2019

Discussion input: Stakeholder consultation in developing climate strategies: insights from experiences in Germany and France

Judith Voss-Stemping, IDDRI

Meeting the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement requires profound changes to current patterns of socioeconomic development including consumption, employment, and infrastructure affecting all parts of society including stakeholders.

Date of Publication:
December 2018
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Technical Note 4: Modelling at EU and MS level

Vicki Duscha, Sascha Lehmann, Fraunhofer ISI

Modelling of economic and technological developments as well as emissions is key part for policy and strategy development at the EU level and in a number of Member States.

Date of Publication:
November 2018

Technical Note 3: Transparency of Modelling

Frauke Wiese, DTU Mangement Engineering
Energy system models play an important role in the process of deriving climate strategies and policies. Full transparency in calculating these long-term scenarios is essential for credibility and reproducibility of the scenarios and the respective climate strategies. Open data and models furthermore enable broad collaboration and increase efficiency by avoiding duplication of work.
Date of Publication:
November 2018

Briefing Note 1: 2050 Climate Strategies in EU Countries: State of Play

Ewa Iwaszuk, Matthias Duwe, Ecologic Institute

The Briefing Note presents the first insights of the Climate Recon 2050 project.

The document brings together insights from the discussions on long-term climate planning held among policymakers from 10 EU Member States, and builds on related research conducted by project partners.

Date of Publication:
October 2018