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EUCO2 80/50 - The European Future Project against Climate Change

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About: EUCO2 80/50

Website: http://www.euco2.eu/

In a 24-month project, 15 european metropolitan regions aim to devise strategies for achieving an 80% reduction of greenhouse gases emissions by the year 2050. Lead partner and Coordinator is the Metropolitan Region of Hamburg. Scientific monitoring is provided by the University of Manchester, which devised the GRIP model – the Greenhouse gas Regional Inventory Protocol.  GRIP is recommended by the European Commission as an efficient tool in the context of the Covenant of Mayors.

Project EUCO2 80/50 is a three-step mitigation project for Metropolitan Areas. After the production of regional greenhouse gas inventories, political and economic stakeholders  come together in scenario/strategy workshops in order to find a consensual long term CO2 reduction strategy. Results will be disseminated to other metropolitan areas.

The discussion on the reduction of greenhouse gases shows ever more clearly that it’s not a problem of lacking solutions. By higher energy-efficiency in production, by energy-saving in transport and buildings and by use of renewable energies, the  reduction goals of the EU can be achieved.

The main problem rather consists in implementing the measures that have been identified as good practices into tangible politics. Therefore we need a decision finding process that unshackles the issue from ideological dispute and guides the stakeholders of economy, politics, science and administration towards a consensual strategy.

Exactly this is the task and goal of project EUCO2 80/50.

Resources

GRIP for Europe - The Greenhouse Gas Regional Inventory Project

Tool / Methodology [EN] This online tool provides the regions of Europe with a consistent methodology that enables them to produce an inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, and to monitor them annually. The tool also enables regions to compare themselves to other regions in terms of their energy consumption and emissions, on both a per capita and economic basis. In addition as regions populate the tool, and therefore the database it will provide graphical representations of metropolitan emissions across Europe. This will include total as well as sector (Domestic, Industry, Transport) representations.

View the Tool / Methodology [EN - English]

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