Overview & objectives
The JUSTPATH project (2025-2028) is a DG CLIMA-funded global action project which focuses on supporting countries and stakeholders in creating and expanding the robust modelling base for domestic mitigation action, feeding into domestic climate strategies that are aligned with limiting global warming to 1.5 °C, in line with the outcome of the Global Stocktake.
The project has four main objectives
- To improve national-level and sub-national level mitigation models operated by partners in developing countries and emerging economies to provide authoritative, independent insights on climate action that is aligned with limiting global warming to 1.5 °C.
- To improve understanding among all participants of how action at a national level impacts global emissions and provide insight in support of national and global commitments such as the NDCs and LT-LEDS under the Paris Agreement, aligned with limiting global warming to 1.5 °C;
- To improve the understanding of socioeconomic impacts of mitigation action, including, amongst other issues: investments for mitigation action, costs of inaction, mitigation as enabling element of the SDGs, etc.
- To synthesize available knowledge and identify opportunities to assess and accelerate national and global climate action in the context of the Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement, and to provide country-driven technical input to the second Global Stocktake as well as other relevant UNFCCC work programs;
The project covers 12 countries
- Our core country-level work focuses on 9 developing and emerging countries covered by in-country partners (Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa), selected because of their political leadership on climate-related issues and/or because of the size of their current and future greenhouse gas emissions.
- 3 other countries/regions where limited analysis will be done building on expertise available in the consortium : USA, EU and Türkiye.
Project partners have extensive experience in national, sub-national and global modelling and scenario development and in national and international stakeholder engagement, guaranteeing that this project will develop cutting-edge policy-relevant insights to contribute to climate processes at all scales.
To register, please contact Lauren Harry-Villain, at the following email address
Events
- Launch webinar (closed event): with DG CLIMA, on January 24 & 27 2025
- Kick off Project meeting (closed event): July 30-2, 2025(3 days)
Partner organizations
- Argentina: Fundacion Bariloche
- Brazil: COPPETEC/UFRJ (Fundacao Coordenaçao de Projectors, Pesquisas e Estudios Tecnologicos/ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
- China: Tsinghua University
- India: IIMA : Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
- Indonesia: CCROM Centre for Climate Risk and Opportunity Management in Southeast Asia Pasific (CCROM ) | CREP-ITB: Center for Research on Energy Policy (CREP) is one of research centers of Institut Teknologi Bandung
- Mexico: Tempus Analitica
- Nigeria : AEFUNAI (Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu- Alike, Ikwo)
- Senegal: ENDA Energie Environnement Developpement South Africa : University of Cape Town