This briefing explores the questions raised during the first ESM2025 policy forum and details the contribution of ESM2025 to various policy-relevant topics.
This policy briefing is based on the discussions carried out during the ESM2025 first stakeholder forum (October 2021) on current research priorities for climate policy. It explores the issues raised during that forum, detailing ESM2025's ongoing contribution to each of the following policy-relevant topics:
- The impact of climate change at both global and regional scales;
- Long-term mitigation pathways and the need for negative emission technologies and nature-based mitigation solutions;
- The role of ESM2025 in international research initiatives such as the next phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP7).
This briefing is the first of a series of policy briefings that will address the questions raised during our exchanges with the stakeholder community.
ESM2025
The project goal of ESM2025 is to advance the understanding of the Earth system and its response to human activities. The project aims to develop the next generation of European Earth System Models including a more comprehensive representation of the Earth's response to anthropogenic emissions and human land-use change. The improved models will help to enhance the consistency of climate and mitigation-relevant processes across Earth System and Integrated Assessment models and provide valuable scientific insights to support successful implementation of the Paris Agreement. Results from coordinated simulations with the new models will also provide more robust guidance on future global environmental risks, supporting policies targeting adaptation to global change.Project details
- Project title: “Earth System Models for the Future” (ESM2025)
- Funding scheme: Horizon 2020 (Grant agreement no. 101003536)
- Duration: 4 years (1 June 2021 – 31 May 2025)
- Project coordinator: Météo France-CNRM, France
- Project website: www.esm2025.eu
- Project key messages: ESM2025 key messages for each target audience
- Presentation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3evSTOBE18