Vision

Contribute towards the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions on a 5 – 15 year horizon 

Ethical base

Equal climate footprint for all humans in the long run 

Mission

• Develop suggestions for good climate strategy --- at the global, national, corporate and individual level

• Forecast the cost and effect of these strategies

• Identify and highlight barriers to attitude change and implementation

• Communicate the results to implementors and the public

Capability

    * Maintain knowledge about the costs and consequences of most important climate actions, both past and future.
    * Understand the future environment --- both physical and social --- in which climate strategies will have to be implemented.
    * Provide surveys of the impact of past climate policy.
 

Methodological foundation

    * Cross disciplinary - breadth prioritized over depth.
    * Microeconomic analysis, behavioral economics, life cycle analysis, input output analysis, system dynamics, foresight and scenario techniques.

 Outputs

    * Proposed climate strategies (for different actors, suited to their objectives)
    * Suggested implementation strategies (in light of implementation barriers)
    * Identification of industrial opportunities
    * Scenarios for the economic, regulatory and climatic environment in which future climate strategies will have to be implemented

* Summaries and analyses of past developements of climate policy