ELEVATE- Enabling and leveraging climate Action Towards net zero Emissions

By 2025, countries are expected to produce new NDCs covering the post-2030 period, informed during the 2022-23 period by the 6th Assessment Report of the IPCC and the Paris Agreement Global Stocktake. Project results are anticipated to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Provision of information for the preparation of climate policies and national planning for the post-2030 period, in light of the Paris Agreement goals and the need to reduce global net greenhouse emissions to zero by 2050. Enhanced international cooperation among the modelling community and other relevant stakeholders is the need to expand the provision of robust in-country advice to decision-makers around the world. Enhanced mutual learning among the modelling, social science and policy communities to ensure coherence between different tools used to inform climate action, and consistency with the best available and open science. As per ToR, economic modelling is not part of project activity. However, detailed energy modelling and exploration of political economy of global and national carbon neutrality along with ‘just transition’ issues can help to identify policy diaspora required to ensure the achievement of Paris Agreement targets. This will enable the researchers and policy makers to identify the transformative policies required to address the gap between target and potential of existing policies. These policies can help to design appropriate climate policies.