International Energy and Climate Policy - Energy and Development

The relationship between poverty alleviation, economic development and energy use is a prominent issue for individual developing nations,  international organisations (e.g. the United Nations) and international forums (e.g. the G8). ECN Policy Studies contributes to these issues by:

• Studying the effects and possibilities of policy interactions, at both macro and micro level, to stimulate the adoption of renewable and low-carbon technologies
• Actively engaging in building institutional capacity regarding energy planning and policy, promoting sustainable development trajectories through long term strategies and action plans

Ongoing and recent projects

• 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.
• Ghana Technical Assistance
  ECN provides technical assistance to Ghanaian stakeholders on their national climate change policy framework
• IS Academy project flyer
  A study to investigate how the Netherlands can promote the use of renewable energy in developing countries with the goal to improve access to affordable energy, support development and reduce poverty and increase energy security at the national level.

Earlier projects

Publications

• 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
• Applicability of post 2012 climate instruments to the transport sector. July 2010
• New ways to involve transport. May 2010
• Methodological guidelines for a mitigation potential study in the transport sector in Colombia. July 2009
• Technology transfer in the Clean Development Mechanism. May 2008
• GHG Marginal Abatement Cost curves for the Non-Annex I region. February 2007
• Technology transfer in the Clean Development Mechanism. January 2007
• A guide to bundling small-scale CDM projects. May 2007
• Alleviation of Poverty through the Provision of Local Energy Services (APPLES). Inception report. November 2005

Tools

• Developing countries Mitigation Action Cost Curve
• Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning tool (LEAP)
• TechWiki, an online database with descriptions of energy and climate technologies

For more information please contact Nico van der Linden.