CARISMA - Coordination and Assessment of Research and Innovation in Support of Climate Mitigation Actions

CARISMA in Brief

CARISMA supports the development and diffusion of options for climate change mitigation, both technologies and practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Climate-friendly technologies and practices often already exist, yet for several reasons they do not enter the mainstream. Decision-makers in the public and private sectors alike are, for a variety of reasons, inclined to continue the high-carbon status quo. This holds for already developed technologies and practices, as well as for technologies and practices that are untested or in the research phase.

Through extensive engagement with the policy-making and business communities, CARISMA aims to help them better understand these reasons with a specific focus on:

• Research and innovation, including international cooperation, around climate change mitigation options;
• Economic costs, social aspects and environmental benefits of climate change mitigation options;
• Existing mitigation policies and how these interact with other environmental and climate policies;
• How the success of policies for climate change mitigation depends on their socio-economic implementation contexts and policy implementation cycles.

Publications

Up to date the below CARISMA deliverables have been produced:

Communication and Collaboration

Communication plan.pdf CARISMA D2.1 Communication Plan

CARISMA D2.2 Stakeholder Engagement Plan

CARISMA D2.3 Project Website

CARISMA D2.4 Report on Implementation of Stakeholder Engagement Plan and Communication Plan

CARISMA D2.5 First Synthesis Report

Research and Innovation: Mitigation options and programmes

Mapping and Assessing Policies for Mitigation

Policy Implementation: Understanding contexts

International Collaboration on Research and Innovation for Mitigation