European responses to climate change: deep emissions reductions and mainstreaming of mitigation and adaptation (RESPONSES)

The objective of the RESPONSES project is to identify and assess integrated EU climate-change policy responses that achieve ambitious mitigation and environmental targets and, at the same time, reduce the Union's vulnerability to inevitable climate-change impacts.
The sub-objectives of the project are:

• To develop a set of global low emission scenarios, differentiated by key countries
• To develop an appropriate research protocol that builds on a portfolio of policy assessment tools
• To develop and assess strategies for integrating mitigation and adaptation to climate impacts into existing EU policies
• To identify key synergies, trade-offs and conflicts between mitigation and adaptation, based on evidence from case-studies, in order to identify opportunities for future EU strategies and policy measures
• To disseminate and communicate research results effectively to policy makers.

Research outputs will be of direct relevance to the IPCC and to post-2012 international negotiations, as well as supporting implementation of the EU White Paper on Adaptation.