JPI Climate

&

Climate Change Research

Frank McGovern

October 7th 2016,

Outline of presentation

Context the JPI Process

JPI Climates; objectives, structures and processes

H2020 and JPI Climate

Actions and opportunities

The JPI Climate process

JPI Climate is a collaboration

between 17 European countries

including Ireland, to coordinate

climate change research and fund

new transnational research

initiatives on climate change.

Observer institutions include:

European Environment Agency

European Space Agency

European Climate Research

Alliance

The European Commission is a

non‐voting member.

JPI Climate: vision & mission

Vision

Is to actively inform and enable the transition to a low emission, climate resilient

economy, society and environment that is aligned with Europe’s long-term climate

policy objectives.

It aims to develop and coordinate a pan-European research programming

platform to provide knowledge and services for European and national climate

strategies and plans and contributions to the UNFCCC and the UN Sustainable

Development Goals.

Mission

To align and inform strategies, instruments, resources and actors at national and

European levels by connecting the various research communities with research

funders and performing organisations.

JPI Climate: Aims

To

Foster an excellent science base, world-class research

infrastructures and a new generation of researchers;

Cooperate with partners in advanced, emerging and developing

countries;

Achieve greater impacts through involvement of the public and private

sectors in knowledge creation and mobilisation

Innovate with the end-users on societal transformation for resilience

and sustainability.

JPI Climate: Strategic focus areas

This Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) sets out three overarching challenges

and one strategic mechanism.

They are:

• Understanding the processes and consequences of climate change

• Improving knowledge on climate-related decision-making processes and measures

• Researching sustainable societal transformation in the context of climate change

Strategic Mechanism is: Connecting people, problems and solutions in a systemic

approach.

JPI Climate: Strategic focus areas

JPI Climate: Strategic focus areas

The slight overlap between the challenges is intentional.

• Solutions to the complex problems associated with addressing climate variability

and change cannot be successfully developed within a ‘silo’ approach.

• Promoting a multi-, inter and trans-disciplinary approach to connect the natural‐

with socio‐economic sciences is essential to reduce and highlight the conflicts

between the various options.

• The challenges are described in general terms, in order to account for future

policy developments and frameworks as well as technical and scientific advances.

• The specific priorities and activities for a given period within JPI Climate will be

reflected in the Implementation Strategy and Plan.

The added value of JPI Climate

• At the European level, JPI Climate aims to foster the

development of coherent research activities across its

membership whilst maintaining creative diversity.

• It aims to facilitate cross-border interactions and enable a

broader level of research and innovation. JPI Climate will help

ensure maximum impact from European research efforts.

• Bridging National and Regional level research to address

shared challenges

Held in 2013/14 two topics

-> Topic 1 : Societal Transformation in the Face of Climate Change

-> Topic 2 : Russian Arctic & Boreal Systems

Sustainable Transformations of Society

Ireland had one successful participant; Dr Conor Murphy; NUIM

Austrian led Project looking at societal responses related to impacts and adaptation to

flooding.

The award is on a Juste Retour basis i.e. Ireland will fund the Irish research activity

Ireland and JPI Climate 1st Call

In 2015 Ireland hosted a JPI Climate workshop in Dublin on verification of

Greenhouse gas emissions and removals

Reps from Dg Research, ESA, Copernicus, ICOS, funding bodies including UK, DE, Fi,

leading researchers and GHG inventory experts

It agreed an Outline Vision: A science based system for determination of GHG emissions

and removals that informs and supports policy development, decision making, and official

reporting and accounting systems

Europe has the potential to be a leader in advanced Measurement Reporting and

Verification (MRV) systems that can support analysis of global to local emissions and

which can be used to chart progress to achievement of shared goals

H2020 took over this topic. It is now an open Call.

Ireland and JPI Climate

• Climate Services a flagship area for development: H2020,Copernicus, WMO etc

• Ireland through EPA and Met Eireann is a member of the ERA4CSclimate services call.

• JPI activity supported by H2020, but its complex involving cashand in-kind processes.

• At ERA4CS pre-proposal evaluation resulted in 4 proposals withparticipants from Ireland being invited to submit full proposals,this involves researchers from UCC, UCD, Dundalk Institute ofTechnology and the Marine Institute

Ireland and JPI Climate ERA4CS

Preparation is underway for an International Call through the International Group

Funding Agencies (IGFA)/Belmont Forum and to JPI Climate.

Key research challenges are along the following themes:

• Cross-sectoral and/or cross-scale climate change impact assessments

• Integration of (biophysical) climate change impact estimates into economic models

• Integrating climate change information with other relevant information for decision

making

The potential funds for these themes are €26,000,000 made up of funds from the

Commission, Member States and the Belmont Forum.

Ireland and JPI Climate

JPI Climate is a work in progress but is proving to be useful

Further information on JPI Climate is available from

http://www.jpi-climate.eu/home

Thank you

Conclusions