Deliverables

The deliverable at hand entitled “Quality Management Plan” defines the quality policy and plan to be applied in the PARIS REINFORCE project. Its purpose is to establish the roles, procedures, metrics, and tools necessary to ensure that the PARIS REINFORCE project is implemented smoothly and that all project deliverables are of high quality and of scientific added value and are submitted to the EC services on time.

In the first six months of PARIS REINFORCE two physical meetings have taken place, the Kick-Off Meeting in Athens on June 10 and 11, 2019, and the second Project Meeting held in Brussels on November 20 and 22, 2019. In addition, four Management Board Meetings (remote) and four Consortium Calls have been realised. All project partners, including the international partners, have been active and engaged in the project meetings, showing high level of ownership and commitment to the objectives of the project.

In the period covered by this report (December 2019 to November 2020) no physical meetings have taken place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the consortium held one full-day Project Meeting, and fourteen Management Board and Consortium Calls. All project partners have been active and fully engaged in the project meetings, showing high level of ownership and commitment to the objectives of the project.

This deliverable is an initial effort to document all model characteristics that are present within the PARIS REINFORCE consortium, including information regarding assumptions behind models, their geographical and socioeconomic coverage, along with detailed insights regarding methodologies, coverage of emissions, as well as mitigation and adaptation parameters.

This living document is to be used as a tentative protocol (submitted M7 and updated M18), indicating timelines and preliminary activities regarding harmonisation and interlinkages on the first round of modelling attempts, focusing on global and regional models. This deliverable also describes the other tools present within the consortia that add to the robustness of all the approaches we link together across Work Packages 3-7.

This report corresponds to MS3, as part of Task 2.3 and Deliverable D2.4, documenting inter alia the interactive map of models and tools. The map, hereafter named “dynamic documentation”, had been prepared by early November 2019, to showcase during the first Stakeholder Council dialogue of the project, i.e. the 1^st PARIS REINFORCE regional workshop held in Brussels, Belgium, on the 21^st of November 2019.

This report provides a documentation of the platform along with a description of its available services, such as Dynamic Model Documentation, Detailed Model Documentation, Overview and Comparative Assessment, and Visualisation.

This document presents the PARIS REINFORCE Stakeholder Engagement Plan, which is predicated upon the identification and subsequent engagement with the Stakeholder Council. This Council will embody a diverse group of stakeholders, including: policy makers, trade unions, industry associations and business networks, national and international NGOs, academia and the research community, as well as the civil society. Membership of the Council will be dynamic and significantly enriched throughout the course of the project.

This deliverable serves as a detailed policy brief aimed at policymakers and other stakeholder groups, outlining (i) which policy questions have been addressed by each model in the past, who commissioned them, and who they were targeting, ii) a brief description of key modelling features, and iii) the level of transparency of the modelling exercise (assumptions, documentation, etc.).

The first PARIS REINFORCE regional EU workshop was held in Brussels on the 21st of November 2019. The purpose of the event was to initially inform stakeholders as to the capabilities of the models: what they can and cannot do. Building upon this, the event facilitated the co-creation of both the online, open-access, data-exchange platform, I2AM PARIS, and the research topics into which models will be set to address. This deliverable serves as documentation of the proceedings and reports particularly on attendance, agendas, and minutes.

This deliverable describes the process and outcomes of the mapping process of the PARIS REINFORCE Stakeholder Council. We develop a mapping for the PARIS REINFORCE Stakeholder Council, which is essential for the co-creation process enshrined in the project’s objectives. The aim is to enable stakeholder interaction and ensure inclusivity of the Council.

This document presents the five modelling tools that will be used in WP5 of the PARIS REINFORCE research project. Its aim is to provide a good overview of each of the documented models for a large variety of stakeholders of climate policymaking within the European Union (EU). At the same time, it has sufficient technical detail so that experts can have an accurate overview of the provided documentation.

WP5 focuses on the European low-carbon transformation projected to take place in the following decades. Five models are used with national or regional coverage within the EU-28 as well as some other European countries. The purpose of the first round of modelling is to provide a global context of where we are heading with current policies around the world, where we are supposed to be heading to comply with the Paris goals for temperature change, and what this means for the climate efforts required per country or region, including the EU.

This document describes in detail the key attributes of the models that will be used in PARIS REINFORCE to develop and examine sustainable development and decarbonisation pathways for major and less emitting countries and regions outside of Europe. These regions include the USA, Canada, Mexico, China, India, Japan, Brazil, and the Central Asian Caspian region.

PARIS REINFORCE will utilise a range of energy and integrated assessments models, as well as sectoral models, to explore in depth the system transformations that can help achieve the Paris Agreement long-term temperature goal of limiting global warming rise to “well below 2^oC” and “pursuing efforts towards 1.5^oC”.

This document presents the eight modelling tools to be used in WP7 of the PARIS REINFORCE research project. Its aim is to provide a good overview of each of the documented models for a large variety of stakeholders of climate policymaking at the global level.

WP7 focuses on global stocktaking of climate efforts, and six global models will be used for a series of extensive model inter-comparisons. The purpose of the first round of global modelling is to provide a global context of where we are heading with current policies and where we are supposed to be heading to comply with the Paris goals for temperature change. Therefore, the global models will be run in a coordinated way, providing the best scientific basis for a model inter-comparison exercise.

We set out to understand the needs of policymakers and stakeholders, as reflected in our stakeholder engagement and knowledge co-creation processes, then review the extent to which these have been addressed in the recent modelling literature following the Paris Agreement, before examining how our modelling armoury can respond to these needs.

This report shows that the first global model inter-comparison, using a mix of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE), macro-econometric, bottom-up energy system and partial equilibrium models results in a broad range of emissions futures under “reference” scenarios, which account for current policy efforts and current Paris pledge targets. This range is produced despite of a high degree of modelling input and scenario design harmonisation, highlighting the importance of underlying model structure in determining the results.

The purpose of this document is to describe the visual identity of the PARIS REINFORCE project, which is part of the CDE plan and Task 8.3 "Creating the project’s visual identity and website" activities. Communication tools; dissemination tools, including information and communication means such as logo, flyer, leaflet, poster, roll-up; and finally presentation are presented.

This report, the Communication, Dissemination, & Exploitation (CDE) Plan, mainly outlines the ways that can applied for the project and consortium to be informed about relevant research and novelties in the field of integrated assessment modelling and policymaking as well as to share the PARIS REINFORCE scope and results with the appropriate audiences. In doing so, the CDE Plan defines the PARIS REINFORCE communication, dissemination and promotional channels and means that will be used for this distribution.

To mobilise acquired, processed and accumulated knowledge for scientific debate and progress, including for the purpose of feeding into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report (AR6) Cycle, PARIS REINFORCE has ensured timely scientific publications in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, as well as presence in distinguished academic conferences. This deliverable summarises this scientific output, by listing the papers, conferences, and special issues.

Synergies can come in many forms and have multiple aims, but given the objectives, scope and framework of the PARIS REINFORCE project, we distinguish two axes of synergies, both aimed at delivering high-quality, relevant and robust policy prescriptions: (a) joining scientific forces to promote science; and (b) broadening outreach to promote inclusiveness and stakeholder participation.

PARIS REINFORCE has participated in the steering activities of its three sister projects (ENGAGE, NAVIGATE, LOCOMOTION). Thematic complementarities have been identified and helped formulate the research questions of the project, mainly in respect to the EC’s requests for research in emerging themes, like COVID-19.

This report is the 1st update of the Communication, Dissemination, & Exploitation (CDE) Plan, issued at the end of the 1st year of PARIS REINFORCE and outlines the ways through which the project’s concept, progress and results have been promoted to the appropriate stakeholders, as well as the promotional activities that are scheduled to be implemented in the upcoming year.

Towards underpinning climate policymaking with authoritative scientific processes and results and enhancing the science-policy interface, the PARIS REINFORCE website is meant to establish according to the DoA, a leading visual presence in online media, including a project website for the presentation of results, as well as an effective presence in social media channels to further spread excellence and raise awareness.

This report is the first version of the PARIS REINFORCE Data Management Plan (DMP). It outlines the procedures that will be applied regarding the collection, processing, production, and storage of research data within the project.

This report is the first update to the PARIS REINFORCE Data Management Plan (DMP) that was submitted at the end of the first semester. It outlines the procedures that will be applied regarding the collection, processing, production, and storage of research data within the project.

To mobilise acquired, processed, and accumulated knowledge for policy debate and informed business and civil society, PARIS REINFORCE has ensured timely publications targeted at policymakers and stakeholders. This deliverable presents the most impactful means used in PARIS REINFORCE, namely the distribution of newsletters and press releases; the publication of commentaries and other publications in the press (e.g. non-scientific journals); policy briefs; videos; infographics; as well as presentations in policy events.