This is an executive summary of the main ADAM objectives and the activities going on during ADAM's first year

The second issue of the ADAM Newsletter is now available. It contains information about the regional Case Studies and the deliverables produced in Year 2.

 This provides high-level key results from 11 thematic areas drawn from the first 18 month period of the ADAM project. First answering 'what ADAM is about?' followed by;

• Can we limit climate change to 2 degrees Centigrade?
• The mitigation options of Europe until 2050
• Mitigation policies: technological flexibility at moderate costs
• How much will extreme events cost?
• Adaptation as a learning process: implications for decision-making
• What makes European climate change policies effective?
• Collaborative policy-making in EU energy policy to address climate change
  
• Protecting climate refugees
• European development assistance and climate change
• Can the European electricity sector continue delivering emission reductions beyond 2020 and 2030?
• The Tisza River Basin: Adaptation to climate change in floodplain management
  

 

Over 20 researchers from the ADAM project are presenting their findings across all 6 themes at this climate change congress.

Click on the ADAM researcher and presentation title to view the abstract. (All abstracts also found in 'Documents / Policy & Outreach / Conferences & Workshops / ADAM at Copenhagen, 10-12 March 2009').

• Constanze Haug - From burden- to effort-sharing: Negotiating emission reduction targets in the European Community
  
• J. David Tabara - Climate rationalisation processes and regional sustainable development. Appraising, communicating and learning from multiple frames of action
  
• Ilona Banaszak - The Role of Shared Mental Models for Adaptation Policies to Climate Change
  
• Marian Leimbach - Climate Policy Analysis in the Context of Globalisation
  
• Markus Wrobel - Knowledge for adaptation: the ADAM digital adaptation compendium
  
• Levente Horvath - (Poster) SCA method in climate change research
  
• Darryn McEvoy - Adaptation in the urban environment: a story of process and outcome
  
• Gert-Jan Nabuurs - Adapting European forests to climate change: resource modelling at high resolution based on inventory data
  
• Brigitte Knopf - Low stabilisation pathways: economic and technical feasibility
  
• Serban Scrieciu - Climate Change, Social Justice and Development
  
• Joop de Boer - Frame-based guide to situated decision-making on climate change
  
• Eleftheria Vasileiadou - Participatory policy formation to address climate change
  
• Michel den Elzen - Regional total climate change costs for different burden sharing regimes and concentration targets
  
• Silvana Mima - The trajectories of new energy technologies in carbon constraint cases with the POLES world energy model
  
• Henry Neufledt - Climate change, land use policies and adaptation in Alxa region, Inner Mongolia, China
  
• Terry Barker- Potential reduction in mitigation costs from multi-gas abatement: a meta-analysis based on EMF21 and other literature on GDP costs
  
• Christian Flachsland - Global Trading versus Linking: Architectures for International Emissions Trading
  
• Maria Falaleeva - Social Learning for Climate Change Adaptation - Knowledge and Action across Scales and Levels
  
• Fari Zelli - Post-2012 Options beyond Climate Change. Prospects for Linking Debates between the Global Climate and Trade Regimes
  
• Jochen Hinkel - Measuring adaptation: comparing possible outcomes or describing social learning?
  
• Ulrich Reiter - Climate Change adaptation scenario for the European electricity sector
• Andries Hof - Regional total climate change costs for different burden sharing regimes and concentration targets
• Dirk Ruebbelke - Effects of the CDM on poverty eradication and global climate protection
• Dirk Ruebbelke - (posters)
  
• Adaptation to climate change in teh European Union: efficiency vs. equity considerations
• Objectives of Public Economic Policy and the Adaptation to Climate Change
  

 

This report is summarised in ADAM Final Report (revised) June 2009.

Contains some basic information about the ADAM project and is suitable for providing interested people with a quick overview of the objectives of the project.