Project Objective:

The project aims to define different development scenarios (national policies, programmes etc.) and their significance for the European Strategy for Sustainable Development. The main objectives are:

1. Improving models and research methods in accordance with Extended Impact Assessment principles,
2. Communication with all the key partners at national levels,
3. An analysis of the present and future development of policies and trends in the field of sustainable development,
4. Creation of a hypothesis sensitivity model,
5. Formulating recommendations for policy-making,

The project is solved by an international team. The IEEP will focus on the relations between the energy policy and the climate protection policy and the national economy. The increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere can influence (and does influence) particular national and supranational policies. The goal of the project is to elaborate a comparative analysis of the different instruments and their effectiveness in all the EU Member States.

Brief Summary:
The project is concerned with macroeconomic modelling, by means of modelling the influences of introducing sustainable development policies in particular economies.

Outputs:

More information on www pages of the project: http://www.transust.org/

Seminars planned in the framework of the project:
Opening: Brussels, 21st of February 2006, European Commission
Meeting with FORESCENE, Brussels, 15th of March 2006, European Commission
Workshop Vienna, 9th–10th of October 2006, WIFO
Workshop Prague, 29th–30th of January 2007, IEEP
Conference Chia, Sardinia, 27th–28th of September 2007, FEEM