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WHAT IS THE ADAM PROJECT? HARNOS, ZSOLT Funded by the European Commission and co-ordinated by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the UK, ADAM (Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies: supporting European climate policy) is an integrated research project running from 2006 to 2009 that will lead to a better understanding of the trade-offs and conflicts that exist between adaptation and mitigation policies. ADAM will support EU policy development in the next stage of the development of the Kyoto Protocol and will inform the emergence of new adaptation strategies for Europe. Why is ADAM important? The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol provide the primary international policy context for the work to be undertaken in ADAM. ADAM will examine the extent to which existing policy trajectories in Europe will deliver Europe's commitments to these agreements and will co-develop with stakeholders portfolios of policy options where current trajectories are insufncient. Most importantly, ADAM will also develop a Policy Appraisal Framework which will engage policy communities within Europe and allow policy advisors to examine and explore the effectiveness of different policy options against specific yet contrasting criteria. Core AD AM objectives. To assess the extent to which existing and evolving EU (and world) mitigation and adaptation policies can achieve a tolerable transition to a world with a global climate no warmer than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, and to identify their associated costs and effectiveness. To develop and appraise a portfolio of longer term policy options that could contribute to addressing shortfalls both between existing mitigation policies and the achievement of the EU's 2 °C target, and between existing adaptation policy development and EU goals and targets for adaptation. To develop a novel Policy-options Appraisal Framework and apply it both to existing and evolving climate policies, and to new, long-term policy options in the following four case studies: European and international climate protection strategy in post-2012 Kyoto negotiations; a re-structuring of International Development Assistance; the EU electricity sector; and regional spatial planning. ADAM work programme. The ADAM work programme is structured around four overarching domains: Scenarios, Policy Appraisal, Mitigation and Adaptation. Developing framing scenarios for adaptation and mitigation. The Scenarios Domain will lay out four framing scenarios that will guide the ADAM analysis. They will span a range of climate futures from a 2 °C global warming outcome where the primary challenge is mitigation, to a 5 °C warming outcome where the primary challenge is adaptation. Analytical and deliberative appraisal of climate change policy options. The Policy Appraisal Domain will provide the central component of ADAM, namely the development of an innovative Policy-options Appraisal Framework (PAF). The PAF will be the key mechanism for interacting with stakeholders and for providing policy-relevant outputs from the project.