SDSN Global Climate Hub

Established in 2022, the SDSN Global Climate Hub (GCH) aims to provide science-based recommendations for combating the climate crisis and preventing further deterioration. Renowned economist and Co-Chair of SDSN Europe, Professor Phoebe Koundouri, leads the GCH.

The SDSN Global Climate Hub (GCH) has made it its mission to provide science-based and publicly acceptable recommendations for achieving sustainable futures, based on robust financial solutions. The GCH uses extensive data, knowledge, and technologies provided by experts in various fields to implement country-specific action plans to be adopted and reinforced by society. The 9 research Units of the GCH represent the stages that a country should go through in order to achieve the design and implementation of detailed, cross-sectoral climate neutrality and climate resilience pathways.

The GCH focuses on the development of science-based solutions and regional, national, and sub-national pathways for the transition to a climate-neutral and resilient world. These efforts are supported by cutting-edge, integrated natural–socio-economic models, and optimal solutions are co-designed with stakeholders, policy-makers, and practitioners. The cross-country approach is grounded on the respective SDSN national hubs.

The Hosting Institutions of the SDSN Global Climate Hub (SDSN-GCH) are the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and the "Athena" Research and Innovation Center in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies (ATHENA RC), both of which are part of the Alliance of Excellence for Research and Innovation on Αephoria (AE4RIA), an initiative for collaboration between research institutions, innovation accelerators, and science-technology-policy interface networks focused on sustainable development. The Academy of Athens and the Technical University of Denmark, are two of the most important co-founding institutions of the GCH.