LOCALISED

The objective of LOCALISED is to downscale national decarbonization trajectories consistent with Europe's net-zero target to the local levels and provide the results to local authorities, citizens and businesses, in a way that would speed up the uptake of mitigation and adaptation actions. To this end, the project will create effective and clearly understandable tools that transform localised data on possible decarbonisation pathways by 2030 and 2050 into knowledge for action, namely: (1) the Decarbonisation Profiler for municipalities, regions and their citizens in 24 EU languages, and (2) the Net-Zero Business Consultant tool. The tools will allow local authorities and policy-makers as well as citizens and businesses: to identify viable combinations and best practices of (sectoral) mitigation and adaptation measures for every NUTS3 region on how to reach the goals of the downscaled pathways and to introduce an adapted-to-case service for implementation and monitoring of SECAPs. This is closing a gap as currently results of European platforms providing information on energy transition to net-zero are constrained to EU and national scales (e.g., EUCalculator, INNOPATHS, CTI-2050), which is of limited use at the level where changes must be implemented. The project will additionally engage with EU citizen groups to inform how climate change and different EU net-zero scenarios positively and negatively affect their life and what share of mitigation can be enhanced via key behavioural change. Local as well as associated partners from regional and business administrations will inform the development and test the tools. They will also be instrumental in supporting upscaling and replication through local and European dissemination and networking.

Key goals: To downscale EU-level and national level net-zero trajectories to a local level and provide the results to local authorities, citizens and businesses in a way that would speed up the uptake of mitigation and adaptation actions. To create effective and clearly understandable tools to access localised information on possible decarbonisation pathways by 2050.

PIK will coordinate the project consortium and is responsible for quality assurance of the whole project, as well as guidance and support for partners and bodies also regarding ethical and legal questions. PIK will additionally lead the WP deriving decarbonisation pathways at Member States and EU-level using the EUCalculator model that will be further downscaled to regions.