The project is completed. To support national processes for long-term climate strategies, the Climate Recon 2050 project created a platform for dialogue between experts from politics and science. The aim of the platform was to identify common and best practices to support effective national planning for 2050 through mutual learning.
Climate Policy Climate Strategies and Plans
Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Poland
11/17 - 10/19
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377,901.00 €
Matthias Duwe
Long-term climate strategies for 2050 are a central thread of discussion in the European Union (EU). Under the Paris Agreement, all EU Member States had to develop their own national strategies, but with little central guidance and no overarching structure for cooperation.
Despite existing political commitments (e.g. Paris Agreement, Energy Union), by 2017 only a minority of EU Member States had formulated a robust long-term climate strategy – and those that existed varied in scope and level of detail. The project aimed to fill a gap in the landscape of existing political-technical processes and to support national planning processes.
Climate Recon 2050: 1st Meeting of the Technical Dialogue, Berlin, April 2018
Climate Recon brought together policy makers and technical experts from EU Member States with an overarching goal: to support national long-term climate planning and the implementation of national long-term climate strategies (LTCSs), while contributing to the harmonisation of long-term climate strategies through action across the EU. The project aimed to organise dialogue workshops for government experts, conduct targeted comparative analyses of selected national LTCSs in the project's target regions, create opportunities for collaboration between relevant stakeholders by organising regional seminars in the target regions and to raise awareness on these issues.
The project consisted of a series of parallel workshops that brought together policy makers and modelling experts from across Europe and enabled the two groups to exchange experiences and best practices within and between the groups at workshops in Berlin, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Rome, Paris and Brussels.
As a core group of Member States, the project received support from the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Italy, Poland and Germany. In addition, the project organised a series of events, webinars and publications aimed at presenting findings from the two forums to a wider audience, but also allowing interested stakeholders not directly involved in the project to contribute to the ongoing project.
Last update: February 2025