International Energy and Climate Policy

ECN Policy Studies is dedicated to improving international energy and climate policy, studies new opportunities for post-2012 climate agreements, and analyses the consequences of international climate policy instruments such as emissions trading. On this website, you will find our most recent News and events, recent projects, tools and publications.

The group International Energy and Climate Issues works on the following themes:

Energy and development
International climate policy
Carbon markets
CCS in the global context

News and events

• 24 September 2010: UNIDO Global Technology Roadmap on CCS in industry stakeholder meeting will be hosted by Shell and organised by ECN in Amsterdam. More information
• 6 August: ECN contributes to the ADB/IDB study 'Climate instruments for the transport sector'.
• 4 August: ECN side event on Low Carbon Development Strategies at the climate negotiations in Bonn. The final agenda can be found here and ECN’s presentation here.
• 29 July: The ICAP Summer School on ‘Emissions Trading in Emerging and Developing Countries’ visited ECN (see ICAP and presentations by Heleen de Coninck, Jos Sijm and Stefan Bakker)
• 30 June - 1 July: ECN contributed to UNIDO-MASDAR workshop on a global technology roadmap on CCS in industry in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Workshop report
• June 21-28: ECN in the Arctic: NRC Academy on climate change
  • “Healthy scepticism and melting glaciers”: reflections by Heleen de Coninck on the Spitsbergen trip
  • Blogs by Ramsey Nasr, poet (in Dutch): 2 juli; 6 juli; 8 juli
• 21 June 2010
  New ECN report on international technology cooperation on climate change
• 29 April 2010
  Workshops on CCS held in Botswana, Mozambique and Namibia
• 31 March 2010
  CO2 capture and storage is necessary technology with barriers

Earlier news and events

Ongoing and recent projects

• With support from the Dutch government, ECN Policy Studies is contributing to more clarity and understanding on the Copenhagen Accord concept of Low-Emission Development Strategies. In Ghana and Indonesia, the project explores how an LEDS could be beneficial in practice.
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• ECN is partner of the Coordinated Low Energy Assistance Network (CLEAN)
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• UNIDO Global Technology Roadmap for CCS in industry. A background paper is now published.
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• CASINDO aims to intensify and expand the activities that are currently implemented in four target regions in the framework of the CAREPI project as well as ongoing activities under the Indonesian-Netherlands Energy Working Group.
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Earlier projects

Publications

• Applicability of post 2012 climate instruments to the transport sector. August 2010
• CCS in Southern Africa. An assessment of the rationale, possibilities and capacity needs to enable CO2 capture and storage in Botswana, Mozambique and Namibia. July 2010
• Low-carbon technology cooperation in the climate regime - An exploration of opportunities, barriers, and ways forward, June 2010
• A climate for collaboration. Analysis of US and EU lessons and opportunities in energy and climate policy. November 2009
• Tradable Carbon Allowances: the experience of the EU and lessons learned. November 2009
• Financial assessment of the technology proposals under the UNFCCC. October 2009
• Pledges and Actions. A scenario analysis of mitigation costs and carbon market impacts for developed and developing countries. October 2009
• Differentiation in the CDM: Options and impacts. June 2009
• Progress on including CCS projects in the CDM: Insights on increased awareness, market potential and baseline methodologies. April 2009
• Balancing the carbon market - Carbon market impacts of developing country emission reduction targets. March 2009
• Balancing the carbon market - Overview of carbon price estimates. March 2009
• Oil prices and climate change mitigation. May 2009
• ECN contributed to the UNFCCC Expert Group on Technology Transfer report on Financing options for technology transfer. March 2009.

Earlier publications

Tools

ECN Policy Studies maintains a number of publicly available quantitative models and tools that can assist decision-makers on energy and climate policy both nationally and internationally. The tools include

• a non-Annex I mitigation action cost curve,
• a climate change toolkit that visualises data relevant for the climate negotiations,
• a CO2 price model for the EU ETS,
• a 'ClimateTechWiki', with low-carbon technology descriptions
• and the Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning tool (LEAP).

For more information on the subject of International Energy and Climate Policy, please contact Heleen de Coninck.