CARISMA - Coordination and Assessment of Research and Innovation in Support of Climate Mitigation Actions
About CARISMA
CARISMA in Brief
CARISMA supports the development and diffusion of options for climate change mitigation, both technologies and practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Climate-friendly technologies and practices often already exist, yet for several reasons they do not enter the mainstream. Decision-makers in the public and private sectors alike are, for a variety of reasons, inclined to continue the high-carbon status quo. This holds for already developed technologies and practices, as well as for technologies and practices that are untested or in the research phase.
Through extensive engagement with the policy-making and business communities, CARISMA aims to help them better understand these reasons with a specific focus on:
- Research and innovation, including international cooperation, around climate change mitigation options;
- Economic costs, social aspects and environmental benefits of climate change mitigation options;
- Existing mitigation policies and how these interact with other environmental and climate policies;
- How the success of policies for climate change mitigation depends on their socio-economic implementation contexts and policy implementation cycles.
Objectives
Τhe CARISMA project objectives are to achieve the following:
- Improved identification of priorities for research and innovation on climate change mitigation options.
- Improved coordination of research and innovation in climate change mitigation-related programmes and projects, including those on climate change mitigation policy and governance.
- Greater awareness and understanding among policymakers of relevant attributes, features and economic, environmental, social and ethical implications of existing and new climate change actions, including technologies, practices, policies and measures in EU Member States, Associated Countries and beyond.
- Improved and context-relevant decision-making on climate change mitigation policies that leads to greater investment certainty in the private sector for climate change mitigation options and greater risks for climate-harmful investments.
- Recognition and improved understanding of the contextual factors relevant to realising climate change mitigation options.
- Identification and analysis of opportunities to strengthen European engagement in international research and innovation collaboration, policy diffusion and market creation for climate mitigation technologies.
Work Structure
The structure and relations of the WPs are graphically depicted in the Figure below.
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Other Material
CARISMA Institutional Presentation
Publications
Policy Brief Series
CARISMA Commentaries Issue 1 - Reviewing Implementation under the Paris Agreement (February 2016)
Discussion Papers
Working Document Series
CARISMA Working Document 5 - International R&I collaboration on mitigation
CARISMA Working Document 4 - Energy efficiency policies in Austria at different policy levels
CARISMA Working Document 3 - Effects of Interactions between EU Climate and Energy Policies
CARISMA Working Document 2 - Policy Interaction between EU ETS and RED
CARISMA Working Document 1 - Policy Database Analysis
Climate Change Mitigation Monitor Series
CARISMA Climate Change Mitigation Monitor - April 2017
CARISMA Climate Change Mitigation Monitor - November 2016
CARISMA Climate Change Mitigation Monitor - July 2016
CARISMA-POLIMP Climate Change Mitigation Monitor - March 2016
CARISMA Blog
Course Correction: 2017 Amendments to the Austrian Electricity Act
Power to Gas Indispensable for Reacting thew 1.5-2 Degree Paris Targets: 3 mitigation policy biases
New Guidance to Support Climate Technology Implementation
Results
Communication and Collaboration
CARISMA D2.1 Communication Plan
CARISMA D2.2 Stakeholder Engagement Plan
CARISMA D2.4 Report on Implementation of Stakeholder Engagement Plan and Communication Plan
CARISMA D2.5 First Synthesis Report
Research and Innovation: Mitigation options and programmes
CARISMA D3.1 Accompanying Note
Mapping and Assessing Policies for Mitigation
CARISMA D4.2 Economic Costs and Benefits of Renewables Development in the EU
CARISMA D5.1 Policy on Climate Change Mitigation, Policy Mapping and Interaction
Policy Implementation: Understanding contexts
International Collaboration on Research and Innovation for Mitigation
