Publications

EU Climate Policy Tracker

The EU Climate Policy Tracker (EU CPT) presents up-to-date developments in climate and energy policies in the EU-27. Although government policy is the single most influential driver behind the fight against climate change, there is limited information about...

Annual Status Report on NAMAs

Ecofys, the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), and the Centre for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) issued the first Annual Status Report on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs).

Since the birth of the NAMA concept back in Bali...

UNEP Bridging the Emissions Gap

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Climate Foundation (ECF) commissioned Ecofys to coordinate the delivery of its 2011 ‘Bridging the Emissions Gap’ report. As a follow-up to 2010 Emissions Gap Report, its objective...

International climate financing

This paper by Ecofys and GtripleC examines potential sources of revenues and analyses, which instruments are most compatible with these sources and the climate objectives. Ultimately, the paper provides suggestions for progress in international climate...

Co-benefits of private investment in climate change

For the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Ecofys has prepared a report highlighting the co-benefits that developing countries may gain from private sector finance for climate change mitigation and adaptation. These benefits include, amongst...

Energy Savings 2020

Europe needs to triple the impact of its energy efficiency policies to achieve its 2020 targets set last year, according to a new study written by Ecofys and the Fraunhofer ISI. The study reveals that the potential exists to reach the 20% energy saving...

Engaging the Private Sector in the Potential Generation of REDD+ Carbon Credits

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation is a prominent agenda item within the international climate change negotiations. It is also significant in many domestic discussions on climate change and mitigation.

Some of the issues...

Evaluation of the Copenhagen Accord

The Copenhagen Accord has proven beneficial to the efforts of achieving the target of limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius. Since the climate conference was held, countries have pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. These pledges could...

Copenhagen Accord pledges are paltry

Current national emissions targets can’t limit global warming to 2 °C,  a group of scientists, among them Ecofys director Niklas Hoehne, write Nature— they might even lock the world into exceeding 3 °C warming…...

Sharing emission reductions

According to the Bali Action Plan from 2007, a new international climate agreement for the time after 2012 is to be developed. This agreement aims to include concrete new targets and actions for emission mitigation and support for sustainable development....

Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions

In the international climate negotiations up to Copenhagen in December 2009 “nationally appropriate mitigation actions” (NAMAs) was used as an acronym as the solution of many open issues and with very different interpretations on what the term...

Emission reduction proposals by emerging economies

The participation of emerging economies is one of the major items of discussion on a future international climate regime. Action is called for and more and more emerging economies make plans and pledges for future emission reduction, in particular around...

Factors underpinning future action - update 2009

For the UK Department of Energy and Climate (DECC) Ecofys prepared a series of country factsheets. The factsheets include greenhouse gas emissions, energy use, sectoral trends, emission reduction costs and climate policies for 61 countries as well as Annex...

Possible future reduction targets for the EU

This report provides background information that is relevant to assessing the ambition levels of the major countries involved in the current international climate negotiations. The EU’s performance is assessed in detail, including the anticipated...

Greenhouse gas emission reduction

The report for the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) calculates comparable reduction efforts according to fundamentally different effort-sharing approaches for the individual Annex I countries. This report updates an earlier study on comparable...

Solutions through Synergies

In the international climate negotiations leading up to a Copenhagen agreement, different topics are often discussed separately and with specialized experts. This implies that synergies between concepts are sometimes not identified.

Two issues...

Emission pathways towards 2°C

Ecofys has written a paper about climate change and emissions reduction. The paper has been submitted to the Major Economies Forum, the convention of the of the world’s largest economies. The Forum is presently discussing global climate change policies...

Sharing the effort under a global carbon budget

The report concludes with a global cumulative GHG emission cap for the period from 2010 till 2050. It outlines mid-term and long-term cumulative emission allowances for key countries under the three equity approaches and trajectories for these countries...

G8 Climate Scorecards

The report concludes with a global cumulative GHG emission cap for the period from 2010 till 2050. It outlines mid-term and long-term cumulative emission allowances for key countries under the three equity approaches and trajectories for these countries...

Economic/Climate Recovery Scorecards

As global leaders head to the G20 summit to consider solutions to the current global economic crisis, a new report prepared by Ecofys and Germanwatch for WWF and E3G reveals that many of the economic recovery packages being discussed are a missed opportunity...

High emission reductions are necessary

This study analyses the possible approaches to greenhouse gas abatement by industrialised (Annex I) countries, to calculate their comparability. The reduction targets for Annex I countries and the abatement costs of achieving these different aggregated...

Exploring comparable post-2012 reduction efforts

The study assesses different approaches to turn emission reducing efforts of different countries (Annex I) comparable. The emission reducing targets and costs are very different for the Annex I countries. In order to achieve the EU climate target of 2°C...

Factors underpinning future action - update 2008

For the UK Department of Energy and Climate Ecofys prepared country factsheets. The factsheets include greenhouse gas emissions, energy use, sectoral trends, emission reduction costs and climate policies for 61 countries. These new data are valuable references...

Distribution of emission allowances

Ecofys compares required emission reduction under the Greenhouse Development Rights approach (GDRs, developed by EcoEquity) with other methods to share emission allowances proposed for an international climate agreement post 2012. This particular approach...

Proposals for contributions of emerging economies

This study by Ecofys and Wuppertal Institut provides reference emissions and three mitigation scenarios (no-regret, co-benefit and ambitious) for Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa and South Korea until 2020. It makes an illustrative proposal of...

Factors Underpinning Future Action

In this report Ecofys presents an approach to share the energy and climate related targets between EU Member States simultaneously. The method includes the EU’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction target (-20% or 30% in 2020), the renewable target...

Enhanced policies for the improvement of electricity efficiencies

Energy-efficiency improvement is considered as an important option to limit greenhouse gas emissions. In this paper, the possibilities to implement new policies to improve the efficiency of electricity end-use are explored.

Factors Underpinning Future Action

The objective of this report is to provide an analytical basis to underpin discussions on future commitments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the end of the first Kyoto Protocol commitment period (i.e. post-2012). The project report provides...

Towards a Post-2012 Climate Change Regime

Commissioned by the European Union, Ecofys performed an exploration of possible approaches to the UNFCCC’s Post-2012 negotiation process. Key elements of the report include a three-stage agreement on emission reductions of Kyoto-gases (excluding LUCF)...

South north dialogue - equity in the greenhouse

This report provides a quantitative analysis of the future greenhouse gas emission allowances for countries and regions for a proposal made by an international group of researchers. It provide results for three scenarios, the “political willingness...

Options for the Kyoto Protocol

The study provides an overview of the proposals on international climate policy after the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol 2008 to 2012. It includes a comprehensive compromise proposal and a comparison of emission allowances under different...

Implementing Triptych 6.0 - Technical report

The Triptych approach is a method to share greenhouse gas emission allowances among a group of countries, based on sectoral considerations. It has been first proposed 1997 to share the Kyoto targets for 2008 to 2012 among the EU member states. Since 1997,...