EU-CHINA BRIDGE

The EU-CHINA BRIDGE project supports the transition to a climate-neutral and resilient society in both Europe and China.

The project’s core objective is to deliver two open-source technology inventories of promising net-zero emission options – for the iron and steel industry and the chemical industry – as well as two co-implemented demonstrations of promising technologies in China.

Additionally, the researchers co-create scale-up paths and roadmaps for the selected industrial technologies in both regions and develop up-to-date, high-resolution, multi-sectoral, GHG and short-lived climate pollutant emission inventories on national and regional level. The project team also dynamically monitors key emission sources at high spatiotemporal granularity.

The researchers develop a state-of-the-art modelling framework, exploiting and advancing cutting-edge and established modelling tools for EU and China, using the latest emissions data. Technology and policy options are set out in detail. A high level of spatial and technological detail enables the assessment of socioeconomic impacts, covering multiple economic sectors and regions.

Based on the modelling results, the researchers co-produce net-zero pathways for the EU and China, explicitly assessing co-benefits and trade-offs of climate policies with other societal goals, exploring cooperation policies and governance to drive the global transformation, and assessing the distributional and global-level implications of the two regions’ decarbonisation.

Relevant stakeholders from both the EU and China are intensively involved through workshops and meetings, enhancing dialogue and fostering mutual learning among policymakers, industry representatives, and experts.