The LIMITS project focuses on the following questions:
• What is the economic, technical and political feasibility of attaining stringent climate policies?
• How can we jump start investments and innovation into clean energy technologies?
• What is the role of policies in promoting mitigation and adaptation, recognizing the diversity of regional and national interests?
• What is the role of technologies and their advancements to meet the change in energy infrastructure?
This project supported by the ENVSEC initiative aims to strengthen the capacity of Belarusian energy and environmental decision-makers and experts in developing sustainable long-term scenarios for the future of the national energy system. Such scenarios utilize the cutting-edge energy modeling techniques and knowledge on modern energy technologies developed within the Global Energy Assessment. The outcome of the scenarios is policy advice on choosing energy pathways which enhance national energy security in an environmentally sustainable way.
The Global Energy Assessment (GEA) is a major initiative established by IIASA in late 2005 to help decision makers address the challenges of providing energy services for sustainable development, whilst ameliorating existing and emerging threats associated with: security of supply; access to modern forms of energy for development and poverty alleviation; local, regional and global environmental impacts; and securing sufficient investment.
"Common Goals – Different Approaches?" is a two-year research and dialogue program jointly implemented by the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin and the Brookings Institution.
The project will focus on the role of markets and institutions in fostering global energy security. Rather than adopting a traditional security lens to studying energy security, this project will assess ways in which global energy governance can be strengthened by creating and deepening markets, and adapting the "rules of the game". The project combines policy research with constructive and forward-looking transatlantic dialogue among researchers, industry experts and policymakers.
PEEER is a recently established ESRC funded energy network which brings together an inter-disciplinary group of academics from across Europe and Russia to research energy with an emphasis on energy, policy, relations and issues associated with transition. The network aims to produce research which is both policy relevant and theoretically informed. It is managed and led by Caroline Kuzemko, University of Warwick.
