SPARCCLE project

SPARCCLE (Socioeconomic Pathways, Adaptation, and Resilience to a Changing CLimate in Europe) is a Horizon Europe-funded initiative aimed at addressing climate-driven socioeconomic risks through integrated modeling frameworks and stakeholder collaboration. It seeks to inform policies for a climate-resilient Europe by combining bottom-up vulnerability assessments with top-down macroeconomic models.

Peer-reviewed publications
Representing gender inequality in scenarios improves understanding of climate challenges.
Andrijevic, M., Zimm, C., Moyer, J. D., Muttarak, R., & Pachauri, S. (2025)
Nature Climate Change, 15(2), 138–146
Tropical cyclone risk for global ecosystems in a changing climate.
Kropf, C. M., Vaterlaus, L., Bresch, D. N., & Pellissier, L. (2025)
Nature Climate Change, 15(1), 92–100
Introducing the MESMER-M-TPv0.1.0 module: spatially explicit Earth system model emulation for monthly precipitation and temperature.
Schöngart, S., Gudmundsson, L., Hauser, M., Pfleiderer, P., Lejeune, Q., Nath, S., Seneviratne, S. I., & Schleussner, C. F. (2025)
Geoscientific Model Development, 17(22), 8283–8320
Global burned area increasingly explained by climate change.
Burton, C. et al., (2024)
Nature Climate Change, 14(11), 1186–1192
Climate change impacts on the within-country income distributions
Gilli, M., Calcaterra, M., Emmerling, J., & Granella, F. (2024)
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 127, 103012
Win-wins or trade-offs? Site and strategy determine carbon and local ecosystem service benefits for protection, restoration, and agroforestry.
McDonald, R. I., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Mulligan, M., Kropf, C. M., Hülsen, S., Welker, P., Poor, E., Erbaugh, J. T., & Masuda, Y. J. (2024)
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 12
Women are under-represented in adaptation policy research and are more likely to emphasise justice topics.
Danilenko, D., Andrijevic, M., Sietsma, A. J., Callaghan, M., & Khanna, T. (2024)
Environmental Research: Climate, 3(4), 045010
Inequality and growth impacts of climate change—insights from South Africa*
Dasgupta, S., Emmerling, J., & Shayegh, S. (2023)
Environmental Research Letters, 18(12), 124005
Funding acknowledgment

This project is funded by the European Union, the Swiss Confederation and the UK Research & Innovation

Funded by the European Union under grant agreement No 101081369 (SPARCCLE). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or HORIZON-RIA – HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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