Adaptation and mitigation strategies: supporting European climate policy case study

The objectives of this project include 1. To develop portfolios of policy options that could provide the basis of a post-2012 climate governance architecture 2. To organise these options, as well as other current and future proposals on the post-2012 climate governance architecture, in an innovative matrix that is structured along the dimensions of climate polity (the overall governance structure), climate policy (actual policies to be negotiated and agreed upon), and climate politics (including negotiation strategies to be pursued by the EU) 3. To appraise these policy options through the application of the Policy Appraisal Framework developed under ADAM 4. To develop novel, integrative proposals for a post-2012 climate governance architecture that are based on scientific research of all ADAM work domains as well as intense deliberative exercises 5. To communicate findings and new options to the policy debate in a timely manner and with an appropriate level of complexity; and, to develop and maintain a science-policy interface that allows this research to respond rapidly to the fast moving policy debate during 2006-2008 (with the assistance of ADAM partner CEPS).