Presentation on JPI Climate & Climate Change Research - Frank McGovern, EPA, given at Session 3a at EPA H2020 SC5 Info Day 7.10.16

1. JPI Climate
&
Climate Change Research
Frank McGovern
October 7th 2016,

2. Outline of presentation
 Context the JPI Process
 JPI Climates; objectives, structures and processes
 H2020 and JPI Climate
 Actions and opportunities

3. The JPI Climate process
JPI Climate is a collaboration
between 17 European countries
including Ireland, to coordinate
climate change research and fund
new transnational research
initiatives on climate change.
Observer institutions include:
European Environment Agency
European Space Agency
European Climate Research
Alliance
The European Commission is a
non‐voting member.

4. JPI Climate: vision & mission
Vision
Is to actively inform and enable the transition to a low emission, climate resilient
economy, society and environment that is aligned with Europe’s long-term climate
policy objectives.
It aims to develop and coordinate a pan-European research programming
platform to provide knowledge and services for European and national climate
strategies and plans and contributions to the UNFCCC and the UN Sustainable
Development Goals.
Mission
To align and inform strategies, instruments, resources and actors at national and
European levels by connecting the various research communities with research
funders and performing organisations.

5. JPI Climate: Aims
To
Foster an excellent science base, world-class research
infrastructures and a new generation of researchers;
Cooperate with partners in advanced, emerging and developing
countries;
Achieve greater impacts through involvement of the public and private
sectors in knowledge creation and mobilisation
Innovate with the end-users on societal transformation for resilience
and sustainability.

6. JPI Climate: Strategic focus areas
This Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) sets out three overarching challenges
and one strategic mechanism.
They are:
• Understanding the processes and consequences of climate change
• Improving knowledge on climate-related decision-making processes and measures
• Researching sustainable societal transformation in the context of climate change
Strategic Mechanism is: Connecting people, problems and solutions in a systemic
approach.

7. JPI Climate: Strategic focus areas

8. JPI Climate: Strategic focus areas
The slight overlap between the challenges is intentional.
• Solutions to the complex problems associated with addressing climate variability
and change cannot be successfully developed within a ‘silo’ approach.
• Promoting a multi-, inter and trans-disciplinary approach to connect the natural‐
with socio‐economic sciences is essential to reduce and highlight the conflicts
between the various options.
• The challenges are described in general terms, in order to account for future
policy developments and frameworks as well as technical and scientific advances.
• The specific priorities and activities for a given period within JPI Climate will be
reflected in the Implementation Strategy and Plan.

9. The added value of JPI Climate
• At the European level, JPI Climate aims to foster the
development of coherent research activities across its
membership whilst maintaining creative diversity.
• It aims to facilitate cross-border interactions and enable a
broader level of research and innovation. JPI Climate will help
ensure maximum impact from European research efforts.
• Bridging National and Regional level research to address
shared challenges

10. Held in 2013/14 two topics
-> Topic 1 : Societal Transformation in the Face of Climate Change
-> Topic 2 : Russian Arctic & Boreal Systems
Sustainable Transformations of Society
Ireland had one successful participant; Dr Conor Murphy; NUIM
Austrian led Project looking at societal responses related to impacts and adaptation to
flooding.
The award is on a Juste Retour basis i.e. Ireland will fund the Irish research activity
Ireland and JPI Climate 1st Call

11. In 2015 Ireland hosted a JPI Climate workshop in Dublin on verification of
Greenhouse gas emissions and removals
Reps from Dg Research, ESA, Copernicus, ICOS, funding bodies including UK, DE, Fi,
leading researchers and GHG inventory experts
It agreed an Outline Vision: A science based system for determination of GHG emissions
and removals that informs and supports policy development, decision making, and official
reporting and accounting systems
Europe has the potential to be a leader in advanced Measurement Reporting and
Verification (MRV) systems that can support analysis of global to local emissions and
which can be used to chart progress to achievement of shared goals
H2020 took over this topic. It is now an open Call.
Ireland and JPI Climate

12. • Climate Services a flagship area for development: H2020,
Copernicus, WMO etc
• Ireland through EPA and Met Eireann is a member of the ERA4CS
climate services call.
• JPI activity supported by H2020, but its complex involving cash
and in-kind processes.
• At ERA4CS pre-proposal evaluation resulted in 4 proposals with
participants from Ireland being invited to submit full proposals,
this involves researchers from UCC, UCD, Dundalk Institute of
Technology and the Marine Institute
Ireland and JPI Climate ERA4CS

13. Preparation is underway for an International Call through the International Group
Funding Agencies (IGFA)/Belmont Forum and to JPI Climate.
Key research challenges are along the following themes:
• Cross-sectoral and/or cross-scale climate change impact assessments
• Integration of (biophysical) climate change impact estimates into economic models
• Integrating climate change information with other relevant information for decision
making
The potential funds for these themes are €26,000,000 made up of funds from the
Commission, Member States and the Belmont Forum.
Ireland and JPI Climate

14. JPI Climate is a work in progress but is proving to be useful
Further information on JPI Climate is available from
http://www.jpi-climate.eu/home
Thank you
Conclusions