Societal Challenge 5 'Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials' Focus Area 'Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future' Anastasios Kentarchos Deputy Head of Unit Unit I4: Climate Change and Earth Observation DG Research & Innovation
Focus Area 'Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future' Covers the main actions in Work Programme 2018-2020 which can contribute to the goals of the Paris Agreement limit global temperature rise to well below 2 C, make efforts to limit this to 1.5 C; enhance adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerabilities; Aims to develop groundbreaking solutions capable of achieving carbon neutrality and climate resilience of Europe and beyond in the second half of the century Integrating multiple angles of society, economy, technology, industrial value chains, the energy system, environment, health, land use and governance Total indicative budget (2018-2020): EUR 3 343 million
'Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future' Focus Area Operationalise the Paris Agreement goals (including input to the IPCC's 6 th Assessment Report) Accelerate transformation towards carbon neutrality through clean technologies Objectives Enhance climate resilience in Europe and beyond Contribute to long-term mitigation and adaptation policy planning
'Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future' Focus Area Industrial technologies (LEIT-NMBP): topics in call 'Industrial Sustainability' (notably on Energy Efficient Buildings and Clean Energy through Innovative Materials), 271 million Space (LEIT-Space): topics on Earth Observation, 82 million Food security (SC2): some topics in calls 'Sustainable Food Security', 'Blue Growth' and 'Rural Renaissance', 203 million Energy (SC3): all topics in call 'Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: secure, clean and efficient energy', 1 953 million Transport (SC4): all topics in call 'Green vehicles' and some topics in call 'Mobility for Growth' ('Low-carbon and sustainable transport'), 408 million Climate (SC5): all topics in call 'Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement', 426 million
Call "Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement" Objective produce solutions for the achievement of the PA's mitigation and adaptation goals further relevant scientific knowledge for the implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and for key PA-related milestones support relevant EU policies and objectives, e.g. Energy Union, Arctic policy, EU Adaptation Strategy, and EU climate diplomacy efforts cooperation with strategic partner countries/regions communicating research results to a broader audience, including the wider public support EU endeavours to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDGs 13, 6, 11, 14 and 15
Call "Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement" Decarbonisation Climate adaptation, impacts and services Inter-relations between climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem services [in 2019] The Cryosphere [in 2019] Knowledge gaps Earth observation [in 2020] Budget in 2018: 123 million 2018 topics open: 7 November 2017 First call deadline: 27 Feb 2018
Call "Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement" 2018 topics: Decarbonisation LC-CLA-01-2018: Supporting the development of climate policies to deliver on the Paris Agreement, through Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) (RIA) a) Supporting the design and assessment of climate policies b) Improving Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) Climate adaptation, impacts and services LC-CLA-03-2018: Climate change impacts in Europe (RIA) a) Climate change impacts on health in Europe b) Global climate change impacts from a European perspective LC-CLA-04-2018: Resilience and sustainable reconstruction of historic areas to cope with climate change and hazard events (RIA)
Call "Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement" Knowledge gaps LC-CLA-08-2018: Addressing knowledge gaps in climate science, in support of IPCC reports (RIA) a) Improving the understanding of key climate processes for reducing uncertainty in climate projections and predictions b) Tipping points c) Ice-core drilling in East Antarctica
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