Deliverables

To underpin climate policymaking with authoritative scientific processes and results for the post-2030 period and enhance the science-policy interface, the IAM COMPACT website will serve according to the DoA, as a constant node aiming to present information on the project and disseminate its results as well as a reference site with material and links related to climate action and sustainable development, relevant consortia, and projects. The website’s development is essential to the effective promotion of the project concept, progress, activities, results, and stakeholder engagement. The project’s progress and results will be published online. The visual identity of IAM COMPACT will convey the message on what the project is about and will communicate objectives, methods, and expected results to stakeholders.

The purpose of this document is to describe the visual identity and the website of the IAM COMPACT project, which is part of Task 1.2 ‘Creating the IAM COMPACT visual identity & website’ activities. Dissemination tools, including information and communication means such as the logo, flyer, leaflet, poster, roll-up, and presentation are presented.

The visual identity and the materials presented on the website will be updated as the project needs evolve.

The Quality Management Plan defines the quality policy and plan to be applied in the IAM COMPACT project. Its purpose is to establish the roles, procedures, metrics, and tools necessary to ensure that the IAM COMPACT project is implemented smoothly and that all project deliverables are of high quality and of scientific added value and that they are submitted to the EC services in time. Complying with the quality management procedures falls under the responsibility of the Project Coordinator, the Project Manager, the Quality Manager, the Work Package leaders and the Task leaders.

Ensuring the policy-relevant output is a fundamental aim of IAM COMPACT. This document outlines a stakeholder engagement plan that can facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration between modellers and stakeholders to achieve these aims. The key objectives of stakeholder engagement in the project are to ensure policy relevance, share knowledge and enhance trust between modellers and stakeholders, and provide direct inputs from stakeholders to make modelling socially and politically realistic.

The core of the stakeholder engagement plan will revolve around the policy response mechanism, a structured format for engagement between project partners and stakeholders. The stakeholders for IAM COMPACT will be selected from a stakeholder pool, managed by project partner Bruegel, building upon Bruegel’s contacts from previous similar projects. A variety of engagement techniques will be employed, including but not limited to bilateral interviews, workshops, and public events.

Bruegel will lead the operation of the policy response mechanism, in collaboration with all project partners. The process will involve two co-creative cycles, each comprising: selection of stakeholders from the project database, co-creation with stakeholders of a policy-relevant research agenda for two modelling iterations, refinement and updating of the research questions after the first iteration, discussion and feedback on modelling results, and finally the dissemination of the policy recommendations based on the research outputs.

Engagement and the exchange of knowledge between researchers and stakeholders is a fundamental part of IAM COMPACT. This deliverable summarises the results of the initial meetings with policy steering groups for the first iteration within the first modelling cycle, providing details of who attended, what topics were discussed, and the initial research questions that arose from the engagements. Background information on the Policy Response Mechanism, the central instrument of the IAM COMPACT stakeholder engagement strategy, is also provided, as well as the next steps for the project.

I²AM PARIS is an open data exchange platform for climate and energy policy modelling, developed by the Horizon 2020 PARIS REINFORCE project. Drawing from the current capabilities of the platform, this report provides a summary of platform improvements in the context of the IAM COMPACT project. Notably, efforts will be placed in adding validity checks for modelling data that is uploaded to the platform and providing an indication of whether modelling results are credible by comparing them with relevant benchmarks such as the vetting criteria from IPCC AR6 WGIII. We will also develop user-friendly interfaces for data input, allowing modellers from other projects to easily interact with, and add new modelling and scenario information to, the platform. Existing components of the platform will be also improved in term of functionalities. New model documentation will be added, while the existing documentation will be updated, emphasising interpretability by non-experts. In this direction, we will also create a component with videos and training material for new modellers. Finally, the representation of sectoral models will be enhanced in existing components, while new result workspaces will be created to showcase the outcomes of the project’s modelling exercises.

Linking models to other models provides a way of expanding the boundaries of the analysis, but often requires solving difficult problems and even after that comes with trade-offs. This deliverable provides an analysis starting from how different models and their capabilities are characterised, then uses such model typologies to link IAM COMPACT models to the preliminary research questions collected in the stakeholder mechanism before finishing with a discussion about the various issues that should be considered when designing the linking strategy. The aim of this work is to feed into the next steps of the scenario and research question development process, and to the development of a generalised model linking process flow for the second modelling cycle.

This report documents the first version of the Open Science Protocols of IAM COMPACT. First, it includes a detailed description of the state-of-art of open science practices along with a presentation of the FAIR and TRUST principles, highlighting their novelties and limitations while exemplifying their usages. Second, it describes the required infrastructure to facilitate the application of open science principles by enabling code sharing, data storage, and user-friendly documentation. Finally, the report contains a protocol for the consortium members to facilitate the integration of the FAIR and TRUST principles, to promote the smooth interconnection of the models, and to transparently manage the produced outcomes.

This report outlines the first flow of activities carried out under Work Package 4, Task 4.1, to produce guidelines to translate policy needs into scenario frameworks, by understanding the different types of climate and sustainability policies, and how they can be represented in the modelling of mitigation scenarios within the consortium. This involves categorising and linking policy questions to the IAM COMPACT modelling ensemble. The report begins by reviewing the relevant literature and establishing a set of policy types and categories. The consortium's models are then analysed to assess how policy needs can be best represented from a modelling perspective. Next, the preliminary policy questions provided by stakeholders in the context of the IAM COMPACT Policy Response Mechanism (PRM) within WP2 are explained, classified, and clustered as a first step to represent them into models and translate them into scenarios. Finally, the report concludes with a proposal of a process to follow for matching policy needs with modelling frameworks as a guideline for forthcoming work, which will include the formulation of a policy catalogue (MS9), the grouping of interrelated policy questions into common scenario logics, examining policy-model matching, and addressing synergies and trade-offs.

This report will be used as guidance for all modelling work taking place to address research questions in the first modelling cycle of IAM COMPACT. It, furthermore, points forward to further work on harmonisation and management of model inputs and outputs that will be undertaken during 2023 and early 2024. It also describes the role of a broad scenario logic and harmonisation of assumptions and input data in general and can thus be useful for other projects that will investigate a similarly diverse set of research questions or employ a similarly diverse set of models as IAM COMPACT.

This document details the CDE plan to be employed for the entire duration of IAM COMPACT. It outlines both the centrally led outreach activities and tools developed to ensure the efficient uptake and replication of the IAM COMPACT outcomes, and the decentralised efforts to be applied towards reaching and involving all interested actors and target groups through each partner’s stakeholder engagement process and contacts. In doing so, it provides clear guidance that considers “why”, “who”, “what”, “when”, and “how” to engage, as well as the promotional and informational materials that are fundamental for project outreach, and the measures to assess the successful implementation of the CDE activities.