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The Paris Agreement five years on: are congratulations in order?
Lara Lázaro-Touza. ARI 10/2021 - 25/1/2021.
Despite the Paris Agreement, there are significant emission and adaptation gaps, and climate finance is far from being aligned with climate goals. An orderly, just and profound transition is urgently needed. The COVID-19 recovery packages provide a one-off chance to help change course towards Paris.
The Biden-Harris Administration and climate change: good news, caveats and warnings
Lara Lázaro-Touza. ARI 9/2021 - 22/1/2021.
President-elect Joseph Biden has pledged to re-join the Paris Agreement, raise America’s climate ambition, ‘build back better’ (and greener) and reverse recent climate legislative rollbacks. The question remains as to whether the Biden-Harris Administration will be able to deliver and what this means for the global climate regime.
The EU-China climate agreement: building success at the crucial Glasgow summit
Antxon Olabe Egaña. WP 20/2020 - 28/10/2020.
The response to the climate crisis has not been of the same scale in terms of its seriousness and the mobilisation of resources. This working paper highlights the importance of an ambitious climate agreement between Europe and China as key to building a renewed response from the international community.
The design of an independent expert advisory mechanism under the European Climate Law: what are the options?
Alina Averchenkova & Lara Lázaro-Touza. 8/9/2020.
The European Parliament and Council are currently discussing the draft European Climate Law. The aim of this report is to inform the debate on the need for, and the design of, an independent expert advisory mechanism under the European Climate Law, based on experiences with the implementation of national climate change legislation.
Balancing geopolitics with Green Deal recovery: in search of a comprehensive Euro-Mediterranean energy script
Gonzalo Escribano & Lara Lázaro. ARI 95/2020 - 15/7/2020.
The EU’s new Energy Diplomacy Action Plan requires a comprehensive and appealing approach to rapidly shifting Euro-Mediterranean energy geopolitics.
Oil markets, energy transition, climate governance and COVID-19: the short, the medium and the long term
Gonzalo Escribano & Lara Lázaro-Touza. WP 6/2020 - 22/4/2020.
While the priority of governments and citizens is undoubtedly the fight against coronavirus, the radical change in the short-term context should not distract energy and climate policy from the challenges it faces over the medium and long terms.
Legislating for a low carbon transition in Europe: experiences in the UK, France and Spain
Alina Averchenkova & Lara Lázaro-Touza. WP 5/2020 - 11/3/2020.
This working paper aims to provide an updated analysis of the key features enshrined in climate laws that can be considered in the adoption of Spain’s upcoming Climate Change and Energy Transition Law.
Updated policy pathways for the energy transition in Europe and selected European countries
Johan Lilliestam, Lana Ollier, Richard Thonig, Pablo del Río, Christoph Kiefer, Yolanda Lechón, Gonzalo Escribano & Lara Lázaro Touza. 11/12/2019.
This report is a primary data source for the power system modelling in the MUSTEC project, which will bring detailed, quantitiave insights of how the potential role for dispatchable renewables is affected by energy policy decisions.
Policy pathways for the energy transition in Europe and selected European countries
Johan Lilliestam, Richard Thonig, Pablo del Río, Christoph Kiefer, Natalia Caldés, Yolanda Lechón, Gonzalo Escribano & Lara Lázaro Touza. 10/12/2019..
This report investigates the potential future need for and role of two of the main dispatchable renewable power sources available in Europe – CSP equipped with thermal storage and dispatchable hydropower (dam and pumped hydro). The generated data –which will subsequently be fed into two different modelling frameworks in the MUSTEC and SCCER JA IDEA consorti – describe the policy pathways of a set of European countries (France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Switzerland).
Geopolitical Context for CSP in Europe
Gonzalo Escribano, Lara Lázaro Touza, Yolanda Lechón, Christian Oltra & Roser Sala. 9/12/2019.
Does the current European geopolitical energy landscape foster or hamper renewable energies’ cooperation and exchanges? Which geopolitical or strategic role may renewables play? Are renewables (and CSP) included in governments’ energy security strategies? Can geopolitical externalities be a driver for renewable’s exchanges and cooperation mechanisms? How is CSP affected? Is there a geopolitical/strategic role for CSP? If so, to what extent is such a role integrated in the current European geopolitical energy landscape? Are there any elements in the literature to construct an appealing geopolitical narrative for intra-EU CSP deployment and exchanges?