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Updates from our International Partners
Brazil
The Brazilian CPR is organizing a workshop on the 3rd of August, to be held at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). The workshop is intended to bring policy makers, policy officers, industries, public institutions and academics together in Brazil at UFRJ to support answering current policy questions in the context of energy transition adopting modelling based applications, and create a two way channel to both use the models to inform policy at best, as well as gathering further feedback to develop models in line to answering those policy questions. Several policy makers and stakeholders will be present, including representatives of the Banco Nacional do DESenvolvimento (BNDES), of the Empresa de Pesquisa Energética (EPE) and of the Brazilian Association of Photovoltaic Solar Energy (ABSOLAR).
China
The EEIST China Community of Practice Webinar took place on 28 June 2022 and was well-attended. The webinar was supported many institutions including the British Embassy in Beijing, Tsinghua, ERI and the Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion (GIEC)
The webinar presented two ongoing research topics. Ms. Zhu Songli from ERI, Dr Peter Barbrook-Johnson, at University of Oxford, and Professor Han Zangang from Beijing Normal University shared the preliminary results of a comparative study of ETS vs carbon tax by using agent-based model and system mapping. This explained the new research methodology, and model framework. Dr Mei Mei (Aileen) Lam of the University of Macau shared her research on the tipping point of electric vehicle development, arguing that the energy transition in China's transport sector could further reduce the cost of electric vehicles.
In addition to the above, there have been many meetings with the China team (ERI and BNU) such as:
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On April 28, Professor Zhu, the coordinator of China team, attended the Visual Senior Oversight Group and presented the overall situation of China study.
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To improve the understanding of coding team on electricity power system, Mr. Jia LIU from Renmu Consultant Company joined the modelling team to provide specific technical support.
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The primary outputs of the ABPTM were jointly presented at the 2nd EEIST China Community of Practice meeting held on June 18.
India
In India, positive discussions have been held with NITI Aayog about the project contributing to the India Climate and Energy Modelling Forum. The team at TERI has changed, but one of the members has moved to a key role in NITI Aayog.
There is an ongoing discussion at TERI and NITI Aayog on other ways that EEIST’s work can be integrated with the ICEMF task force agenda.
There will soon be two articles published, which will be shared in the next edition.
EU
As part of the EU Community of Practice we took part in The Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and (bio)Energy (FABLE) Consortium workshops in Brussels on 9th June. FABLE mobilizes leading knowledge institutions across the globe and supports them to develop decision-support tools and analysis for integrated long-term food and land-use pathways at national and global scales. The consortium includes interdisciplinary teams of researchers from 20 countries including Brazil, China, United Kingdom, and several EU Member States. We presented the results of the consultations with policy makers and modellers to highlight the current approach to policy development and appraisal as well as the ROA framework. In discussions afterwards we focussed on the detail of policy led evidence making (as opposed to evidence led policy making) and the importance of expanding our approaches within the
context of radical transformation. An interesting discussion explored whether a bottom up approach to introducing alternative appraisal approaches and policy development by working with devolved administrations, regional governments or city authorities would complement the more ‘top down’ approach of EEIST and if the discussion of radical transformation was easier to have at these smaller scales.
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