NAVIGATE aims to develop the Next generation of AdVanced InteGrated Assessment modelling to support climaTE policy making. It will critically improve the capability of Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) to inform the design and evaluation of climate policies by targeting major advancements in two areas: describing transformative change in the economy, in technology and in consumer goods and services, and describing distributional impacts of climate change and climate policy. By tackling existing weaknesses and lack of capabilities of the current generation of IAMs, NAVIGATE will provide new insight into how long-term climate goals can translate into short-term policy action, and how countries and sectors can work in concert to implement the Paris Agreement. NAVIGATE is bringing together leading institutions in the field of integrated assessment modelling with leading domain experts. They will provide a broad and diverse collection of state-of-the-art tools ranging from domain specific models and data to an extensive set of flagship IAMs to foster a successful implementation of the project. NAVIGATE will engage in a concerted effort to increase the usability, transparency, legitimacy and hence uptake of IAM results. At the center of this will be a stakeholder dialogue to elicit user needs and engage in co-production of knowledge about IAMs and their uses. This will be accompanied by the development of methodologies to better assess the robustness of IAM results, by extended model documentation and new communication tools, and by capacity building efforts to lower the entrance barrier to IAM activities for other research teams, including research teams in less-developed countries. The NAVIGATE partners have long-standing expertise in national, EU and international climate policy advice and will actively promote uptake of project results by policy makers and international assessments.
PARIS REINFORCE aims to underpin climate policymaking with authoritative scientific processes and results, and enhance the science-policy interface, in light of the Paris Agreement and associated challenges. In particular, our aim is to develop a novel, demand-driven, IAM-oriented assessment framework for effectively supporting the design and assessment of climate policies in the EU as well as in other major emitters and selected less emitting/developed countries, in respect to the Paris Agreement objectives. Building on an exhaustive facilitative dialogue and a strong ensemble of complementary-in terms of mathematical structure, geographical, sectoral and focus coverage-integrated assessment, energy system and sectoral models, we will create an open-access and transparent data exchange platform, I2AM PARIS, in order to support the effective implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions, the preparation of future action pledges, the development of 2050 decarbonisation strategies, and the reinforcement of the 2023 Global Stocktake. We also seek to enhance the legitimacy of the scientific processes in support of climate policymaking, by introducing an innovative stakeholder inclusion framework and improving the transparency of the employed models, methods and tools. Beyond effectively communicating respective outputs and fostering wider societal acceptance of climate policy, we actively involve policymakers and other stakeholder groups in all stages: from the formulation of policy questions and the definition of modelling assumptions in a demand-driven approach; to the design of I2AM PARIS interfaces and specifications, and the mobilisation of tacit knowledge embedded in them in the aim of bridging knowledge gaps. Finally, we will introduce innovative integrative processes, in which IAMs are further coupled with well-established methodological frameworks, in order to improve the robustness of modelling outcomes against different types of uncertainties.
A)Problemstellung: Nach den Vorgaben des EG-Rechts haben die Mitgliedstaaten bei den nationalen Allokationsplänen für die 2. Handelsperiode (2008-2012) die Möglichkeit, 10 Prozent der Emissionsberechtigungen zu verkaufen (anstelle der kostenlosen Verteilung). Auch für eine mögliche 3. Handelsperiode wird diese Option diskutiert. In der 2. Handelsperiode sollen laut Entwurf NAP II 2 Mio. Berechtigungen pro Jahr vom Reserveanteil zur Deckung von Verwaltungskosten am Markt angeboten werden. In einem ersten Schritt sollen zunächst die Rechtsfragen (inklusive interne Verfahrensregeln) untersucht werden, die für die konkrete Umsetzung des im NAP II geplanten Verkaufs und ggf. einer weiteren Auktionierung relevant sind. In einem zweiten Schritt sind allgemeine verfassungsrechtliche Fragen (rechtmäßige Veräußerung eines Auktions-Anteils (Art. 3, 12, 14 GG), Verhältnismäßigkeitsgrundsatz, Vorbehalt des Gesetzes) zu untersuchen. Es soll ggf. ein einfachgesetzlicher Rahmen mit möglichen Variationen für einen Verkauf oder eine Auktionierung entworfen werden, der in den bestehenden Gesetzesrahmen eingepasst werden kann. B) Handlungsbedarf: Die rechtlichen und administrativen Anforderungen an eine entgeltliche Abgabe von Emissionsberechtigungen müssen vor dem Beginn der 2. Handelsperiode geklärt sein und feststehen. C) Ziel des Vorhabens ist, die für den Klimaschutz im NAP II relevanten Vorgaben rechtlich umzusetzen. Es soll konkret herausgearbeitet werden, in welchem rechtlichen Rahmen ein Verkauf/Auktionierung von Emissionsberechtigungen durchgeführt werden kann und welche Variante am besten und effektivsten rechtlich umgesetzt werden kann. Bestehende Untersuchungen des NAP II - FuE-Projekts sollen berücksichtigt werden.
Research synthesis is the integration of existing knowledge and research findings pertinent to an issue. The aim of synthesis is to increase the generality and applicability of those findings and to develop new knowledge through the process of integration. Synthesis is promoted as an approach that deals with the challenge of 'information overload', delivering products that further our understanding of problems and distil relevant evidence for decision-making. However, despite the increasing prominence of synthesis efforts in the science and policy landscape, we know very little about the impacts these initiatives have on research, policy and practice and the assumptions underpinning how they will lead to change. This paper presents a framework for considering the conceptual, strategic, instrumental and network-based impacts of research synthesis on policy. This framework provides insight into the range of underlying assumptions and impacts on policy and practice from 10 case studies of research synthesis related to contemporary sustainability challenges. Findings suggest that research synthesis is having diverse impacts on research, policy and practice including creating a new understanding of problems, establishing new networks, and contributing to changes in policy and practice. These impacts emerged across a range of contexts, synthesis methods, assumptions and operating models. This suggests that there is no single öcorrect wayââą Ì to design research synthesis for impact, but rather a need to tailor the approach for the context of intended use. © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
During the first phase the focus of the F 3 research project has been on the interface between local institutions and foreign-sponsored development assistance programs. One major finding was that local groups (local villagers, development workers and agencies, NGO) had different interests in their involvement to set up or facilitate hill-tribe networks, defining the agendas, establishing administrative structures and translating objectives into operations. The outcome represents a compromise between the various groups involved, shaped by cultural relations between the ethnic groups and their respective advantages, as well as the administrative and political cultures of development organisations and their linkages to economic and political structures beyond the local level. Another important finding was that the interface has effects on the local groups towards formalization, by which a better compatibility with the local administration was achieved, on the expense of integration of the group-members into local community. Phase two of project F3 uses the results from the interface analysis for the examination of encounters within newly established administrative bodies (in Thailand: TOA and TCC) between local organisations, local administration and local government service agencies. These bodies set up in the context of decentralization policies, are supposed to link local organizations as representatives of local society with the regional and national political and administrative system, to enhance development opportunities more suited to local interests. An important question is, whether these new bodies develop the interface towards a public sphere (Öffentlichkeit) or are forms of bureaucratization. This has far reaching effects on political participation of local groups, representation of local interests, organisational pattern, and thus legitimacy of the new institutions. The aim of the F3.2. project is to develop interface analysis further by taking into account these processes of formalization and their consequences. The focus of F3.2. is thus on political participation in the sense of articulation of local demands through representation. Interests as well as the ability to articulate these as demands, i.e. political participation depend on acting possibilities (agency), based on the vertical and horizontal position of an individual or group within a social structure. Consequently, public representation and political participation should be examined with the question what different social strata can participate and are represented. This requires an actors oriented social structure analysis. The policies of administrative reform towards decentralization in Vietnam and Thailand, by which the degree of political participation is to be increased, result from national political changes and how these are locally implemented. (abridged text)
A) Problemstellung: Mit dem Bezug von Ökostrom (seit 2004) vermindert BMU seine CO2-Emissionen erheblich und leistet damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Umsetzung der Selbstverpflichtung der Bundesregierung. Zur europaweiten Ausschreibung im offenen Verfahren wurde von BMU/UBA ein eigenes Konzept entwickelt, das mit dem Vergaberecht im Einklang steht und einen tatsächlichen Nutzen für die Umwelt sicherstellt (keine reine Umbuchung). Dieses Konzept diente auch als Vorbild für Ausschreibungen anderer Institutionen wie der KfW und dem Deutschen Bundestag. Für die Jahre 2010 bis 2012 soll im Jahre 2009 erneut Ökostrom ausgeschrieben werden. In diesem Zusammenhang muss das Ausschreibungskonzept überarbeitet und dem aktuellen Stand der rechtlichen und energiewirtschaftlichen Entwicklung angepasst werden. Dabei sollen auch Möglichkeiten zur Vereinfachung geprüft werden, um einen noch weiteren Anwenderkreis zu erschließen. B) Ziele des Vorhabens: - Erstellung einer Musterausschreibung für Rahmenvereinbarungen mit geeigneten Ökostromlieferanten auf der Grundlage des Ausschreibungskonzeptes, die europaweit im Offenen Verfahren ausgeschrieben werden. Auf dieser Grundlage können Einzel-Stromlieferverträge in einem vereinfachten und verkürzten Verfahren vergeben werden. - Prüfung einer strukturierten Beschaffung im Rahmen des Ausschreibungskonzeptes (d.h. über mehrere Teilmengenkäufe entsprechend der benötigten Lieferstruktur). - Möglichkeiten zur Berücksichtigung von Siegeln (z.B. Blauer Engel), Zertifikaten etc. - Vereinfachungen nach den Erkenntnissen bisher durchgeführte Ausschreibungen (BMU, KfW, Deutscher Bundestag). - Überarbeitung der Ausschreibungsunterlagen und vergaberechtliche Begleitung der BMU/UBA-Pilotausschreibung (ggf. als Rahmenvereinbarung) in 2009. - Überarbeitung und Druck der BMU/UBA Broschüre 'Beschaffung von Ökostrom' (2006).
The Thematic Node 1 is part of NCCR-North-South and delves into institutions, livelihoods and conflicts. Institutions regulate access to natural, political and symbolic resources and frame the political and social contexts within which social actors strive for their livelihoods. Latent or violent conflicts are also directly linked to the ways in which institutions regulate, or fail to regulate power imbalances within societies, and to the existence or lack of channels through which political grievances can be expressed and negotiated. The overall objective is to research the dynamic and changing roles of political, social, economic and cultural institutions in order to (1) understand how they regulate social interactions between and among individuals and groups (specifically regarding access to livelihood means, and peace and security), and (2) to enable a broader acceptance and legitimacy of institutions relevant for sustainable development. To understand these processes, we interlink our research with contemporary theoretical debates that conceptualise institutions not as given structures that influence peoples behaviour, but as socially constructed rules, regulations, norms and values. This crucial conceptualisation as 'socially constructed allows us to analyse institutions on the one hand as structures or frames established in order to achieve certain social, political or economic goals. On the other hand, it indicates that institutions are also changed, modified or even invented by certain social actors. The focus on actors highlights the potential of disagreement, and thus contestations among actors (state and non-state actors). Thus, 'institutions need to be researched as deeply embedded in social processes, influenced by social actors, their interests and unequal power relations.
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