Transitions Pathways and Risk Analysis for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies

Both the models concerning the future climate evolution and its impacts, as well as the models  assessing the costs and benefits associated with different mitigation pathways face a high degree  of uncertainty. There is an urgent need to not only understand the costs and benefits associated  with climate change but also the risks, uncertainties and co-effects related to different  mitigation pathways as well as public acceptance (or lack of) of low-carbon (technology)  options. The main aims and objectives of TRANSrisk therefore are to create a novel assessment  framework for analysing costs and benefits of transition pathways that will integrate well established approaches to modelling the costs of resilient, low-carbon pathways with a wider  interdisciplinary approach including risk assessments. In addition TRANSrisk aims to design a  decision support tool that should help policy makers to better understand uncertainties and risks  and enable them to include risk assessments into more robust policy design.