New pathways for equitable climate action in line with the Paris Agreement and sustainable development - Project brief, November 2025

The NEWPATHWAYS project aims to help overcome current barriers in international climate action by developing next-generation, Paris-aligned global and national low-emission transformation pathways. It combines pathway modelling with insights from the social sciences, economics, and policy analysis to assess opportunities, risks, synergies, and trade-offs across sectors and regions. The project seeks to inform transparency and consistency of GHG emission reduction commitments, identify opportunities to leverage equity and finance to strengthen collective climate action, and establish new national and global transformation pathways that limit temporary overshoot, rely on deep sectoral transformations, combine climate and nature protection, and are aligned with sustainable development and just transition objectives. The NEWPATHWAYS project is coordinated by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and runs from January 2025 to June 2028.