Transparency and engagement

How the Advisory Board engages with stakeholders

Stakeholder involvement supports the Advisory Board's work. It strengthens the evidence base of the Advisory Board's advice and helps ensure that its recommendations are timely and relevant. It also supports outreach and dissemination, knowledge exchange, awareness raising, and dialogue and cooperation with scientific bodies. The active involvement of stakeholders is therefore an important part of the Advisory Board's work. 

In line with its legal mandate, the Advisory Board's engagement activities are guided by a set of principles: they have an EU focus and support the delivery of robust scientific advice underpinned by reliable data and rigorous analysis. These principles also ensure that engagement is relevant to the needs of the EU, independent and transparent, and that it contributes to the public debate.

Engagement takes two complementary forms. The first is regular dialogue with key stakeholders, such as EU institutions, national climate councils and scientific organisations, aligned with EU policy processes. The second is project-based engagement linked to specific reports, through open calls for scientific input, bilateral meetings, expert workshops and launch events. For each project, the Advisory Board seeks to engage with stakeholders representing a balanced and representative range of sectoral, geographical and societal perspectives, as well as expertise on both climate change mitigation and adaptation. To improve transparency, since 2024, the stakeholders consulted have been listed in the respective published reports.

Throughout, the Advisory Board safeguards its independence. The Advisory Board is an independent, non-partisan expert advisory body and is not influenced by ideological or commercial interests and adopts its advice by consensus.

The Advisory Board also welcomes requests for engagement from interested organisations and experts, which can be submitted via email by writing to: secretariat.advisoryboard@esabcc.europa.eu.