
CHIPS
Climate Change Impacts and Policies in Heterogeneous Societies
Climate change impacts and climate mitigation policies have different effects in different locations and for different societal groups. Socio-economically vulnerable groups will likely be hit hardest. Research supporting policy makers in the development of measures that reduce climate change and contribute to greater social justice is therefore of the utmost urgency.
CHIPS provides improved conceptual understanding and advanced modeling tools for integrating distributional effects, climate change challenges and related policies. Different integrated scenarios are modelled and analysed. It bridges the scales between large world regions and households as well as local and global impacts of climate change and mitigation policies.
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CHIPS will deliver future pathwaysassessing the distributional effects of climate impacts, including improved representation of damages in modelling, and climate policies on a global scale, as well as investigating different policies to reduce inequality
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A first study for the European Union demonstrates that regressive effects of a comprehensive EU carbon tax can be offsete.g. with equal-per-capita transfers (Feindt et al. 2021)
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CHIPS also investigates the attitudes of European citizens to carbon taxation, aiming to identify ways to increase acceptability of measures (first results in Ewald et al. 2021)

About
With new damage functions and welfare metrics, CHIPS supports the development of the next generation of Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) and provides tools for both national decision makers and international negotiators in the context of the Paris Climate Agreement and the SDGs. It also gains practical relevance by providing empirical results as well as a new microsimulation tool that allows the investigation of national and sub-national distributional effects of climate impacts and policies, thus providing an important source of information also for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other national and local actors.
Project consortium
French National Research Agency
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change
University of Gothenburg
The Sorbonne Economics Centre
Agencia Estatal de Investigación
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News & Events
20 December 2022
Save the date: CHIPS final event “Current crises and future climate change: how to prevent rising inequality and societal conflict” on February 27, 2023
The achievements of recent decades in reducing inequality are currently threatened by several short-, medium- and long-term crises simultaneously: the energy and food crisis caused…
Parent programme
AXIS
Assessment of Cross(X) - sectoral climate Impacts and pathways for Sustainable transformation
The ERA-NET Consortium AXIS (Assessment of Cross(X) - sectoral climate Impacts and pathways for Sustainable transformation) aims to promote cross-boundary, cross-community research with the overall goal to improve coherence, integration and robustness of climate impact research and connect it to societal needs. To this effect, AXIS aims to overcome boundaries between science communities through inter- or transdisciplinary research projects.
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