ERA-Net AXIS Assessment of Cross(X) - sectoral climate Impacts and pathways for Sustainable transformation

The ERA-NET AXIS is a network of 11 funding organisations from 10 European countries that has been created 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 bring together international expertise in the areas of its co-fund call for proposals and work on overcoming boundaries between science communities through inter- or trans-disciplinary research projects.

The objective of AXIS is to improve the knowledge base needed to guide societies in their transition to sustainability, in particular through an integrated understanding of social, political and environmental impacts and risks associated with climate change.

It aims to contribute to more accurate estimations and better quantified uncertainties with respect to what climate impacts are to be expected for different plausible socio-economic scenarios and for various carbon emission futures and corresponding warming levels.

Ultimately, this research shall increase the potential to use climate impact data in operational climate services (e.g. the Copernicus Climate Change Service, C3S) and support adaptation policies to reduce vulnerabilities and increase resilience in the future.

AXIS is structured into three interlinked thematic priorities (themes):

• Cross-sectoral and cross-scale climate change impact assessments
• Integration of biophysical climate change impacts estimates with economic models
• Developing pathways to achieve the long-term objectives of the Paris Agreement, taking into ac-count interactions with SDGs closely linked to SDG 13 ("climate action")