The Directorate-General for Climate Action launched a public tender to analyse the behavioural climate change mitigation options and their appropriate inclusion in quantitative longer-term policy scenarios. The tender, published in the Official Journal “S”, with a budget of 150,000 euros will run over twelve months.

The aim of the tender is to study and assess and demonstrate the potential of changes in behaviour and consumption patterns (e.g., broader spread of more healthy lower caloric or vegetarian diet, shift to smaller or less powerful cars or other mobility modes such as walking or cycling, adapted room temperatures) and to analyse policy options for the further development of EU policies and measures, e.g., for the non-ETS sector in this field in line with increasing climate goals, in particular in the perspective of reaching -80 % to -95 % GHG emissions by 2050.

For selected options and policy instruments, the work shall include a conceptual exploration of linkages with other techno-economic variables and a first level quantification of the potentials in a way that it can be used by quantitative models run outside of this contract.

The expected results are policy-oriented synthesis reports and scenario inputs specified in a way that they can be used in quantitative models operated within the Commission or under other contracts.
Implementation of the contract requires close interaction with Commission services, flexibility towards rapid changes in policy focus and the willingness and ability to cooperate with and exchange results with other Commission contractors.

Interested institutions who may participate in this tender should submit their bid before Augost 16, 2010 to the following address:

European Commission
Directorate-General for Climate Action, CLIMA.SRD.2 - Finance BU 5, 00/122
1049 Brussels
BELGIUM
 Tel. +32 22960008
E-mail: clima-tenders@ec.europa.eu