Climate Change - Terrestrial Adaptation and Mitigation in Europe (CCTAME)

Description:

The EU-FP7 project, "Climate Change – Terrestrial Adaptation and Mitigation in Europe (CC-TAME)", will assess the impacts of agricultural, climate, energy, forestry and other associated land-use policies, considering the resulting feed-backs on the climate system. Geographically explicit biophysical models together with an integrated cluster of economic land-use models will be coupled with regional climate models to assess and identify mitigation and adaptation strategies in European agriculture and forestry. The role of distribution and pressures from socio-economic drivers will be assessed in a geographically nested fashion. Crop/trees growth models operating on the plot level as well as on continental scales will quantify a rich set of mitigation and adaptation strategies focusing on climatic extreme events. The robustness of response strategies to extreme events will further be assessed with risk and uncertainty augmented farm/forest enterprise models. Bioenergy sources and pathways will be assessed with grid level models in combination with economic energy-land-use models. The results from the integrated CC-TAME model cluster will be used to provide: quantitative assessments in terms of cost-efficiency and environmental effectiveness of individual land-use practices; competitive LULUCF mitigation potentials taking into account ancillary benefits, trade-offs and welfare impacts, and policy implications in terms of instrument design and international negotiations. The proposed structure of the integrated CC-TAME model cluster allows us to provide an evaluation of policy options at a great level of detail for EU25(27) in a post-Kyoto regime, as well as to offer perspectives on longer-term global policy strategies in accordance with the principles and objectives of the UNFCCC. Close interactions with policy makers and stakeholders will ensure the policy relevance of CC-TAME results.

Project information

Lead

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (AT)

Partners

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (AT), University of Aberdeen (UK), University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (AT), Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (ES), Comenius University (SK), European Centre for Agricultural, Regional and Environmental Policy Research (DE), University of Hamburg (DE), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (FR), Joanneum Research (AT), Joint Research Center (EU), Imperial College London/ Centre for Energy Policy and Technology (UK), The Finnish Forest Research Institute (FI), Max-Planck-Institut fur Meteorologie, Arbeitsgruppe Regionalmodellierung (DE), Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute (SK), UNEP-RISO Centre for Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development (DK), National Institute for Environmental Studies (J), Tallinn University of Technology (EE)

Source of funding

FP 7 - ENV