SPARCCLE: Socioeconomic Pathways, Adaptation, and Resilience to a Changing CLimate in Europe

SPARCCLE will establish new methodological frameworks to link knowledge across disciplines from research communities working on climate impacts and risk in Europe. Bottom-up assessments of multidimensional climate vulnerabilities, risks, damages and adaptation will be combined with top-down integrated assessment frameworks (IAFs) and leading multi-sectoral macro-economic models.

This will deliver new, cutting-edge European capabilities to identify the characteristics of both sectoral and systems-level transformations required for climate-resilient and just development that reduces socioeconomic risks for Europe related to both sudden extreme events and slow onset processes.

The main goals of SPARCCLE are:

1. Accelerate new probabilistic emulators of climate hazards, damages and risks, incorporating cross-sectoral interactions, spillovers, monetization of climate impacts.
2. Develop granular socioeconomic projections, including gender and socioeconomic heterogeneities and multidimensional vulnerabilities informed by empirical assessment.
3. Develop insights on mitigation-adaptation synergies and trade-offs, sectoral risks, and provide region-specific recommendations on short and long term climate policy responses, considering energy security and import dependence.
4. Co-creation with public and private stakeholders through knowledge transfer, capacity building activities, and open science.
5. Co-design stress-test scenarios that exploring socioeconomic climate risks with stakeholders and policymakers, including sectoral stress tests.