In 2015 FEEM's research activities have been re-organized. This re-organization was designed to achieve new important objectives in terms of relevance, funding, impact, and quality. FEEM's research is organized around three research programs, cross-cutting themes and the Initiative on Climate Change policy and Governance (ICCG). The research strategy of the three research programs is meant to be innovative for the academic environment and relevant for the policy and business communities. Several topics and issues addressed by the research programs overlap and therefore require a degree of coordination. This will be achieved mostly through the cross-cutting themes, whose objective is to drive and coordinate the programs' research activities on highly relevant and policy focused topics.