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Model typologies or ‘fingerprints’ of the IMAGE (a), REMIND (b), MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM (c) and WITCH (d) models for Europe in 2050.

European Researchers Unveil Innovative Tool to Decode Energy and Climate Models

A team of European Climate and Energy Modelling Forum researchers has unveiled a new method to decode intricate energy and climate models. In a recent publication in Nature Energy, they introduce “model fingerprints,” a visual tool simplifying the comprehension of complex models’ key features. Energy models are crucial to understand emission mitigation pathways and the…
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ECEMP 2024: The Return to Brussels

The European Climate and Energy Modelling Platform (ECEMP) 2024 conference convened in Brussels and online from October 16-17, 2024, bringing together leading researchers, policymakers, and experts to discuss crucial developments in climate and energy modeling for achieving Europe’s climate neutrality goals. The two-day hybrid event, co-hosted by several European Commission Directorates-General including Energy, Climate Action,…
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ECEMF Forum Hosts Its First General Assembly

The European Climate and Energy Modelling Forum (ECEMF) held its first General Assembly meeting on September 18, 2024, marking a significant milestone in establishing a permanent forum for energy and climate researchers and policymakers in Europe. During this inaugural meeting, attended by representatives from 12 out of 15 founding institutions, the forum established its governance…
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Research Policy Workshop for the Western Balkans

Time and date of the event: September 24th, 2024, 16:30 to 18:30 CET Hybrid event: in-person at Sarajevo Energy and Climate Week in Sarajevo and online via Zoom. Questions and clarifications: contact us at: fejzic@kth.se This workshops aim is to co-design policy-relevant research priorities to explore decarbonization pathways for the Western Balkans by 2050. We look for…
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Credibility makes or breaks the price: political commitment in long-term climate policy key for effective EU emissions trading system

High policy credibility is crucial for carbon prices in the EU emissions trading system (EU ETS) to be high enough to efficiently incentivize emission reductions in the long term, a new study published in Nature Energy finds. A team of European Climate and Energy Modelling Forum researchers has shown that two consecutive ETS reforms elevated CO₂ prices from below 10 Euro per ton of CO2 in 2017 to about 80 Euro per ton of CO2 in 2022, not only by tightening the cap, but also by firming up political commitment to it. This effectively made firms act with more foresight, emitting less in the short term to store certificates for future use.

ECEMF Newsletter – July 2024

Welcome to this very special newsletter, bringing together everything that has happened in the past months of ECEMF. This year’s ECEMP 2024 will be organized by various EU funded projects under the Horizon Europe programme. The main projects organizing and leading ECEMP 2024 under a joint effort are the iDesignRES and Mopo projects jointly with ECEMF. ECEMP 2024 will be…
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Policy Workshop on May 16th, 2024

On May 16th, the ECEMF organized its fifth research policy workshop in Warsaw, Poland. The workshop allowed exchanging information on the latest policy developments from the Polish perspective. Representatives from the Ministry of Climate and Environment in Poland, among others, shared insights into the state’s environmental policy, Polish energy policy, and the National Plan for…
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ECEMF Newsletter – Dec 2023

The ECEMF project is pleased to share its first newsletter! Subscribe here and read the first one below:

Climate Targets 2040: Bridging Modelling and Policy

13 September 2023 | 12:30-14:30Bruegel (Rue de la Charité 33, 4th floor, 1210 Brussels) The EU must declare its 2040 climate targets by the beginning of 2024, as required in the European Climate Law. To inform, justify and communicate the targets, policymakers will rely on energy, climate and economic modelling of the impacts of various…
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ECEMP Special Issues

As it has been the tradition with previous editions of the EMP-E conference, we have continued to invite presentations at the ECEMP conferences (and participants or contributions on the topics of each year’s event) to contribute to Special Issues in international scientific journals.The ECEMP 2022 has published two special issues, which are still in progress…
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