2nd Asian Energy Modelling Workshop on Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions from human activities has drawn worldwide attention since the 1990s. The observed increase in global temperature, rise in sea level and change in weather pattern have exerted significant influences, such as accelerated biodiversity loss, aggravated coastal erosion, more frequent extreme weather events, etc. In order to prevent the climate change from accelerating, many countries have launched climate change policy packages, which include carbon pricing, energy efficiency, low-carbon technology, renewable and clean energy, etc. In addition to emissions reduction, efforts are also underway to explore suitable adaptation solutions. Sustainable development is the ultimate goal of all the actions.

In recent decades, modelling has gained popularity as an important tool for energy and environmental policy analysis, as simulation results under alternative assumptions can provide policy makers with quantitative insight into carbon mitigation pathways and potential impacts of proposed policies on economic development, energy consumption and ecosystem sustainability. While national models are widely used to analyse local issues, multi-country models have also been developed to analyse regional or global issues that require multilateral cooperation. This modelling workshop focuses on quantitative analysis of climate change mitigation and adaption policies around the world and their implications for Asian countries.

ESM's Deputy Program Leader, Florian Kraxner will make a keynote presentation on "Reconciling Top-down versus Bottom-up Modeling for Renewable Energy Systems".

Last edited: 27 August 2015