Response of the Earth System to overshoot, Climate neUtrality and negative Emissions

RESCUE

Response of the Earth System to overshoot, Climate neUtrality and negative Emissions

The RESCUE (Response of the Earth System to overshoot, Climate neUtrality and negative Emissions) project responds to the urgent necessity of reliable science-based recommendations to inform climate policies for the coming decades. It aims to expand on our understanding of the potential role of both land- and ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) techniques in future mitigation scenarios. The project will build on previous research and knowledge, including the results of the H2020 projects LANDMARC and OceanNETs. Through the Paris Agreement, the world’s nations have committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and pursuing efforts to limit the warming to 1.5°C. Achieving climate neutrality by mid century is crucial for limiting global warming and keeping within the ambitious goals set by the Paris Agreement. Nevertheless, the current climate policies fall short of these goals. Further delays in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions could lead to temperature overshoot beyond the Paris Agreement targets, and even the most ambitious pathways that limit global warming to 1.5°C would involve a temporary temperature overshoot of that limit. There is a strong agreement within the climate science and policy communities that climate change mitigation through emission reduction alone, although urgent and necessary, will not be enough to achieve these goals. The stringent emission reductions, for instance through the phase-out of fossil fuels, can be complemented by CDR, referring to the capture and removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air in an attempt to achieve net-zero or net-negative emissions.

September, 2022

August, 2026

7999000

766000

EU /

Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC), Spain

Nadine Mengis

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain [Project coordinator: Raffaele Bernardello] Helmholtz Zentrum Für Ozeanforschung Kiel (GEOMAR), Germany Stichting Joint Implementation Network (JIN) Netherlands Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), Italy Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet Ntnu (NTNU), Norway Commissariat À l’Energie Atomique Et Aux Énergies Alternatives (CEA), France Universite Paris-Saclay (UPSaclay), France
Norce Norwegian Research Centre (AS NORCE), Norway Lunds Universitet (ULUND), Sweden University Of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa Internationales Institut Fuer Angewandte Systemanalyse (IIASA), Austria Potsdam Institut Fuer Klimafolgenforschung (PIK), Germany Climate Analytics Gmbh (CA), Germany Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (LMU), Germany Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut (DMI), Denmark Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum Fur Polar- Und Meeresforschung (AWI), Germany Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), Switzerland

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