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International Energy and Climate Policy - International Climate Policy

ECN Policy Studies carries out studies on the design of international climate policy, the role of energy technology and the interaction with other energy policies. Knowledge is applied for supporting policy makers in discussions and negotiations regarding international climate policy, with emphasis on the continuation of the Kyoto-process.

News and Events

  • 21 December
    Heleen de Coninck on outcomes of COP15 in NRC Handelsblad
  • December 2009
    Special Newsletter Edition COP15
  • 7-18 December 2009
    ECN Policy Studies at COP15
    • ECN COP 15
    • ECN Policy Studies on side events
      - Shaping the future of urban transport (ICLEI, 11 December 2009): ECN will present work on post-2012 mechanisms for transport.
      - Accelerating cooperation and financing for climate technology: Innovative programs and experiences (11 December 2009): The side event, organised by the Climate Technology Initiative, NREL, Ecologic and ECN, will present practical experiences with clean technology collaboration. Heleen de Coninck will present her PhD thesis ‘Technology rules!’
      - Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): new research directions on politics, promises and pitfalls of CCS (12 December 2009): CO2 capture and storage is projected to become a significant climate mitigation option, but still faces challenges. This event presents critical views on CCS’s prospects. Heleen de Coninck will present on CCS in the international climate regime.
      - Readiness and early action (14 December 2009): Early action is crucial to tackle climate change. Good plans and finance are needed. This side event, opened by Minister Cramer (Dutch Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment) presents a pilot study on road-testing and methodology development for low carbon strategies (ECN) and a study on estimated costs (UNEP/Project catalyst.
  • 19 November 2009
    ECN joins the Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport, which aims to improve the knowledge on sustainable low carbon transport, help develop better policies and catalyze their implementation. Already over 40 organisations have joined, covering the UN, multilateral development banks, technical cooperation agencies, NGOs and research institutes.
  • 3 November 2009
    AWG-LCA 7 (resumed) Seminar: Financial assessment of the technology proposals under the UNFCCC. Organized by the Nordic COP 15 Group. Related documents: Executive Summary and the Publication 
  • 2-6 November 2009: RINGOs Research Update side-event series at UNFCCC meeting in Barcelona
    ECN, with IIED, Colorado University at Boulder, IISD and ETH Zuerich, is co-organising a series of side-events to update the negotiators on climate science, scenarios, impacts and adaptation, technology and mitigation policy. For more information, see the flyer
  • 29 September 2009
    AWG-LCA 7 Parallel event: Enabling MRV in the post 2012 regime
  • 18 September 2009
    ECN-IVM Symposium - Technology: the key to a Copenhagen agreement?
  • 8 July 2009
    Publication in PNAS Early Edition: Sharing global CO2 emission reductions among one billion high emitters
  • 8 June 2009
    Side event, Bonn Climate Change Talks
    Confluence or convolution of mechanisms, technology and finance: how can streams meet in Copenhagen?

Ongoing and Recent Projects

ECN contributes to the post-2012 climate negotiations, particularly to the Bali Action Plan building blocks 'Mitigation', 'Technology' and 'Finance', by the following projects:

Publications and Presentations

Publications

Recent presentations

For more information please contact: Stefan Bakker or Heleen de Coninck

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