Synergies

GreenDeal-NET (The European Green Deal: Governing the EU’s Transition towards Climate Neutrality and Sustainability) is a Jean Monnet Network co-funded through the EU's Erasmus+ programme. The Network aims to dissect the European Green Deal, and the complex set of governance challenges related to sustainability and climate neutrality it poses and deepen our understanding of what a fair and effective climate transition could look like by focusing on the governance of the European Green Deal, by acting as a platform for collaboration and debate on teaching and research.

NDC ASPECTS will provide inputs to the Global Stocktake and support the potential and gender-responsive revision of existing NDCs, as well as the development of new NDCs for the post-2030 period. The project will particularly focus on four sectoral systems that are highly relevant in terms of the greenhouse gas emissions they produce yet have thus far made only limited progress in decarbonization. These sectors are transport and mobility (land-based transport and international aviation & shipping), emission-intensive industries, buildings, and agriculture, forestry, and land-use, including their supply by and interaction with the energy conversion sector.

DIAMOND will update, upgrade, and fully open six Integrated Assessment Models that are emblematic in scientific and policy processes, improving their sectoral and technological detail, spatiotemporal resolution, and geographic granularity. It will further enhance modelling capacity to assess the feasibility and desirability of Paris-compliant mitigation pathways, their interplay with adaptation, circular economy, and other SDGs, their distributional and equity effects, and their resilience to extremes, as well as robust risk management and investment strategies.

The RETOOL project aims to advance our understanding of how to address the twin challenges of responding to the climate imperative while strengthening and reinvigorating democratic governance.

Both projects are focused on advancing Voluntary Climate Action and promoting Climate Democracy.
By combining our expertise and resources, we aim to drive impactful initiatives that empower individuals and communities to actively participate in climate solutions. 

The goal of this synergy is to create a user-friendly glossary of complex terms, featuring short videos that simplify and explain difficult concepts.

BioCAM4 is an interdisciplinary and trans-sectoral research partnership aiming to develop methodologies for mapping nature-based climate action trends worldwide and assessing local opportunities and challenges, engage practitioners from local farming and tourism sector, and foster leadership and research collaboration in the Global South. A joint side event in the UNFCCC SB62 meeting has been conducted in June 2025, highlighting high-integrity and inclusive approaches that deliver meaningful outcomes for both people and planet

ENTICE addresses the complex and underexplored links between trade, climate, and industry by developing data-driven insights and innovative modelling tools. It aims to clarify how trade policies influence environmental outcomes and how climate measures affect global trade. This synergy will support ACHIEVE in effectively communicating the Integrity Framework to industry stakeholders

Paludi4all aims to identify and promote innovative solutions for expanding paludiculture across Europe. By comprehensively assessing its environmental, economic, and social impacts, Paludi4All delivers valuable insights to support the scaling up of paludiculture and advance the EU’s climate and nature restoration objectives. Paludiculture reduces greenhouse gas emissions compared to drained peatland agriculture, but it is not always profitable. Carbon credits may provide an additional income that could make this innovative farming system more economically viable. 

Paluwise will drive the development of advanced solutions for the productive use of rewetted degraded peatlands with the aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands while providing opportunities for farmers. As for Paludi4all, carbon credits may allow paludiculture to become economically viable for farmers. 

Camda was initiated in 2017 by a call from Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary UN Climate Change, and Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary UN Climate Change, for a collaborative network of professionals and organizations to assess and communicate the impact of climate action and to record and track ambition and progress made by these actors in the context of the Paris Agreement.

Since its origination, the community focused on three core workstreams related to climate actions:

• Methodologies on data collection and analyses;
• Data synergies and determining metrics of progress and ambition; and
• Aggregation of verified data into published reports and analyses.

Building on this work, Camda fostered a framework for data collection and tracking of climate action progress in states, regions, cities, businesses, and investors as well as exploring how to unlock benefits for credible progress in climate action made by these actors.

In 2021, the Camda secretariat evolved according to the community’s needs in service of the broader ecosystem of all actors working to track mitigation commitments to halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 on a downward trajectory to net-zero emissions by 2050 to limit the rise of global temperature to 1.5C.

The German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) is a renowned research institute and influential think tank. IDOS conducts empirical, theory-led and application-oriented research, facilitates transregional knowledge cooperation and training, and offers policy advice at the intersection of “development” and “sustainability”, with the aspiration to co-shape a collaborative multipolar world for sustainable futures.

Established in 1964 as the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), the Institute was renamed to German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) in 2022. IDOS’ threefold approach of research, policy advice and knowledge cooperation & training uniquely positions the institute between disciplinary, political, social and cultural boundaries. The institute takes a global partnership approach and advances transformative pathways at the science-policy-society interface.

The institute’s research programme studies the dialectic relationship between “sustainability” and “development” by placing the focus on core areas undergoing transformational change (e.g. energy, transport, conflict, agriculture and natural resources, demography, health) and the political foundations of this change. The research, organised in four research departments, is application-oriented and directed by our normative compass to find practicable pathways to and solutions for sustainable futures – the cross-cutting theme for the Institute’s collaborative research efforts.

IDOS provides independent and research-based advice to decision-makers in Germany, Europe and other countries and world regions, as well as at the global level, such as the United Nations (UN), the G7 and the G20. The Institute mobilises scientific knowledge and networks to overcome conflictual perspectives in a multipolar world and contributes to trust-building as a basis for collaboration towards sustainable futures.

IDOS runs three academies which shape dialogue processes that allow for a joint definition of problems and the envisioning, negotiating and shaping of sustainable futures, bringing together actors from different world regions, sectors and social groups. The Postgraduate Programme for Sustainability Cooperation equips graduates for demanding tasks in German and European organisations of international cooperation for sustainable development. The Managing Global Governance programme is an innovative platform providing state and non-governmental stakeholders from emerging economies and Europe with the opportunity to receive training and engage in knowledge partnerships and policy dialogue. The Shaping Futures Academy is an innovative training and dialogue programme geared to early-career researchers from African partner countries. The institute runs a dual and semi-structured PhD programme that combines a focus on both research and policy advice. Through three joint professoral positions with the Universities of Bonn and Duisburg-Essen and through collaboration with universities worldwide, IDOS, as a non-university research institute, is well-embedded in the national and global science system.   

IDOS has some 200 staff members, two thirds of whom work as researchers. The Institute is headed by Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge. IDOS is institutionally financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, based on a resolution of the German Bundestag, and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia as a member of the Johannes Rau Research Foundation.

The ERA Chair in Sustainable Futures (SustainERA) project at Tallinn University is supported from the European Commission’s Horizon Europe ERA Chair initiative. Running from 2025 to 2029, SustainERA will combine high-level research with the development of innovative solutions to promote sustainable mindsets and practices. By integrating expertise from multiple disciplines and fostering international collaboration, the project also aims to enhance the university’s research excellence and capacity.

Main Goals

•  Capacity Building

To strengthen interdisciplinary research excellence, capacity, and capability at Tallinn University (TLU) by establishing a high-level research group in Sustainable Futures, with a focus on sustainability and post-growth development.

•  Research Excellence

To create an Open Lab for Sustainable Futures Research, fostering collaboration across various TLU Schools and with external private and public partners. This initiative aims to enhance interdisciplinary research excellence and support evidence-based interventions and policy development in sustainability.