United Nations Environment Programme, 2009
The ADAM Project
The ADAM Project (“Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies: Supporting European Climate
Policy”) lasted from 2006 through 2009 and was funded as an ‘integrated project’ by a grant
from the European Commission under its sixth framework research programme. ADAM has
been supporting EU policy development for a post-2012 international climate regime and has
informed the emergence of new European adaptation and mitigation strategies. In total, more
than one hundred researchers from twenty-six institutes in Europe, India and China were part of
the ADAM Project.
Within the ADAM Project, the work package on “Post-2012 Options in Global Climate
Governance” examined different scenarios for the overarching architecture of global climate
governance beyond 2012; the emerging role of privatized and market-based governance
mechanisms for climate change mitigation and adaptation; and policy options for the
adaptation of regions, countries and international institutions to the impacts of climate
change.