Internal Workshop on Bridging National and Global Modelling Frameworks
On 23 January 2026, ACCLIMATE partners held a dedicated internal workshop towards the goal of strengthening collaboration between global and national modelling efforts. The objective was to establish shared narratives among experts in order to shape global and national modelling exercises in WP3 and WP4.
The ACCLIMATE project aims to support the acceleration of climate action aligned with global mitigation objectives and promote the co-creation of integrated, climate-resilient, and low-emission strategies and pathways. A key part of this work is ensuring that all internal global and national modelling frameworks inform and reinforce each other.
On the one hand, global models can provide critical insights into the evolution and impacts of international drivers and narrative elements — including trade dynamics, global supply chain shifts, access to finance, technology diffusion, and policy developments. National models, in turn, reflect how these dynamics play out while highlighting the underlying enabling conditions, taking national circumstances and priorities into account.
This workshop facilitated the dialogue among modelling experts to identify and discuss key factors, perspectives and constraints at the sectoral and cross-sectoral levels that need to be taken into account when modelling climate change mitigation pathways at the national and global levels and gather views on key issues for the national transitions.
More specifically, during the workshop, partners presented core elements of global modelling frameworks covering: Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) presented by the Basque Centre for Climate Change – BC3, Energy systems presented by E3M Modelling, and Industry, presented by the Wuppertal Institute. The interactive discussions held focused on cross-sectoral narrative dimensions and sector-specific aspects too, while WP3 partners were asked to share national perspectives, highlighting country-specific priorities and sectoral considerations. Lastly, the workshop ended with a synthesis of key messages and agreed takeaways to inform the next steps in ACCLIMATE’s modelling work.