Framework for defining climate mitigation pathways based on understanding and integrated assessment of climate impacts, adaptation strategies and societal transformation (KNOWING)

KNOWING aims at developing a modelling framework to help understand and quantify the interactions between the impacts and risks of climate change, mitigation pathways and adaptation strategies. The framework will be used to assess the advancing climate science and further broadening and deepening the knowledge base is essential to inform the societal transition towards a climate-neutral and climate-resilient society by 2050, as well as towards a more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target by 2030. There is a need for research that furthers our understanding of past, present and expected future changes in climate and their implications on ecosystems and society, closing knowledge gaps, and developing the tools that support policy coherence and the implementation of effective mitigation and adaptation solutions.

The project will put forward a holistic, system-aware and behaviour-centred approach to identify and implement realistic and effective climate mitigation pathways, in view of the present knowledge gaps about the Earth system and about the ability to predict and project its changes under different natural and socio-economic drivers, taking into account complex interrelations, rebound effects and behavioural aspects.