THESys Project
SPARCCLE is a Horizon Europe project that is co-developing modelling tools with policymakers, scientists and civil society to support us all in making better decisions to reduce the risks and build resilience within the society and economy of Europe in the face of climate change.
Understanding Europe’s climate risk through stress test scenarios
Stress test scenarios explore the implications of exceptional, yet plausible, changes in risk factors. SPARCCLE will co-design Stress Test Scenarios with key stakeholders, to explore high-impact components of the socioeconomic risks of climate change in Europe. We will demonstrate and accelerate the application of this established method from the finance community across other sectors.
Co-developing knowledge with stakeholders
By engaging policymakers, public and private sector stakeholders, and scientific experts throughout the project, SPARCCLE aims to deliver actionable insights and recommendations for policymakers at all levels, businesses, and civil society based on state-of-the-art science. This involves iterative activities throughout the project lifetime such as the co-design of scenarios, validation of results, and capacity building.
State-of-the-art tools, data and analytics
Models within SPARCCLE have been widely used for over a decade in EU climate and energy policymaking and quantitative climate impacts assessment (e.g., PRIMES, GEM-E3, GLOBIOM-G4M, IMAGE, supporting DG CLIMA and DG ENER). SPARCCLE brings together a wide range of methodologies and modelling tools, the majority of which are open source, that will be further developed in the project. They will be extensively improved to more consistently include scenarios of climate change impacts (on the energy and land-use sectors, and socioeconomic development), multi-dimensional vulnerabilities, the monetisation of climate impacts, cross-sectoral effects, and adaptation measures.
Project Partners
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
- Fondazione Centro Euro – Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC)
- Climate Analytics (CA)
- Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK)
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
- E3-Modelling (E3M)
- Instytut Ochrony Środowiska – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy (IOSPIB/CAKE-KOBiZE)
- PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
- Università degli Studi di Firenze (UNIFI)
- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zürich)
- Joint Research Centre – European Commission (JRC)
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (Imperial)
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