Structure

ACCREU research is structured to progress the state of the art on climate change impacts and policies along three major research directions:

● Updating knowledge of the physical and socio-economic cost of climate change impacts, including areas where the quantification is more challenging like health and ecosystems, or has been less investigated (distributional, fiscal, financial consequences);

● Updating knowledge about adaptation processes, their cost, effectiveness, opportunities, and challenges for their practical implementation. This will be done both at a more aggregated level, gathering data to develop adaptation analyses with IAMs, and at the regional and local level co-developing real-life adaptation case studies with stakeholders;

● Developing a fully integrated climate change policy analysis: there, advanced macroeconomic and IAMs models will be applied to define optimal and “robust-to-uncertainty” policy mixes where trade-off and complementarity between mitigation, adaptation and residual damages are explicitly part of the decision processes.