Climate Strategies What it could offer to climate change

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Climate StrategiesWhat it could offer to climate
change

• Gerri Ward
• Ministry for the Environment
• New Zealand

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Overview

• Mission
• Climate Strategies governance
• Future research agenda for Climate Strategies
• 3-year development plan
• Collaborators
• Supporters and funders
• Research milestones

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The mission of Climate Strategies

• Assist solving collective action problems for
  policy makers in Europe and worldwide
• Position of neutrality(rigorous and independent)
  core members are scientists
• Trans-boundary agent between academics (science),
  government (bureaucracy), and geopolitical
  boundaries (politics)

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Organisation Profile

• Climate Strategies aims to assist governments in
  solving the collective action problem of climate
  change.
• Convenes international groups of experts to
  provide rigorous, fact-based and independent
  assessment on international climate change
  policy.
• Aims to connect leading applied research on
  international climate change issues to the policy
  process and public debate, raising the quality
  and coherence of advice provided on policy
  formation.
• Works with decision-makers in governments and
  business, particularly, but not restricted to,
  the countries of the European Union and EU
  institutions.
• Offers a professional training course and a
  direct link to the Climate Policy Journal.

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Climate Strategies Governance

• Board of Directors
• Michael Grubb (Chair)
• Michel Colombier, Director, IDDRI
• Hans-Jurgen Stehr, Copenhagen Business School and
  Chair of CDM Executive Board
• Benito Mueller, Director Oxford Climate
  Policy/OIES
• Bernhard Schlamadinger, Joanneum Research
• Executive Directors MD Research Director
• Membership AGM agreed expansion of Membership to
  c. twenty leading European climate change
  researchers Carbon Trust
• Advisory Board Under development by its first
  Chair, Nick Butler (BP/Judge Business School)

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Research Agenda

• The EU emissions trading scheme
• NAP II allocation plans
• Competitiveness under EU ETS
• Auctioning
• International linkages between ETS
• EU-ETS post 2012
• CDM
• CERs and PDDS analysis, their lead times
• East-West Investment
• JI in the CIS
• JI in Russia
• The Roles of Russia in the post-2012
• Green Investment Scheme

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Climate Strategies 3-year development plan
2007 EU ETS / Kyoto implementation Business
development
2005-2006 Foundation, Flagship pilot
projects Structural assessment
2008 Full-scale operation post-2012 analyses

• Focus on carbon market design implementation
• Develop empirical and analytic base to support
  analysis of how carbon market mechanisms may
  extend post 2012
• Funder development business plan for post 2012
  international

• Conception legal establishment
• EU ETS Allocation and competitiveness
• UK implementation
• Kyoto pillars workshop
• Stakeholder survey on roles options
• Website launch
• Coordinator appointment (Nov)

• Full scale EU operations around EU ETS Phase III
• Pilot international development
• Main focus expected on post 2012 mitigation
  regimes

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Collaborators

• Australian National University, Australia
• Centre International de Recherche sur
  lEnvironnment et le Developpment, France
• Chatham House, UK
• Corvinus University, Hungary
• ECN, The Netherlands
• Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation
  Research, Germany
• Fridtjof Nansens Institutt, Norway
• German Institute for International and Security
  Affairs, Germany
• ICF International, UK
• Imperial College London, UK
• Institut du development durable et des relations
  internationales, France
• IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute,
  Sweden

• Joanneum Research, Austria
• Margaree Consultants, Canada
• Oeko-Institut, Germany
• Oxford Climate Policy, UK
• Stiftung Wissenschaft Politik, Germany
• Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden
• The University of Cambridge, Electricity Policy
  Research Group, UK
• University of College Dublin, Ireland
• Union of Concerned Scientists, USA
• University of Graz, Austria
• University of Greifswald, Germany
• University of New South Wales, Australia
• Wuppertal Institute, Germany
• Zurich University, Switzerland

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Supporters and Funders

• Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs
• Swedish Ministry of Industry and Sustainable
  Development
• Swedish Energy Agency
• UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural
  Affairs
• UK Department for Trade and Industry

• Carbon Trust
• BP
• Grant Thornton

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Research Milestones

• Climate Strategies research on EU ETS Phase II
  allocations presented to sponsoring governments
  including inter-departmental meeting in
  Stockholm, and launched at meeting hosted by BP
  in German Parliament building (2006.6).
• Analysis of draft Phase II plans presented to
  Commissioner and colleagues, contributing to the
  European Commissions decision that nine out of
  the ten submitted GHGs emission allocation plans
  are inadequate (2006.11).
• The EU-ETS research for 2006 was summarised and
  reported in the Climate Policy Journal (volume6
  number 1), which was extensively cited in the
  IPCC Forth Assessment chapter on Policy
  Instruments and in the Stern Review report
  (2006.12).
• 2007 Five out of six core members act as lead
  authors of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.
  Briefing sessions offered to Climate Strategies
  supporters (2007).
• The first Prospectus released. The focus of the
  research is set as (1) EU-ETS, (2) CDM, (3)
  East-West Investment, and (4) Synthesis and
  future (2007.1).
• The Professional Training Course attracts over
  100 participants, four times more than the
  previous year (2007.3).
• Prospectus Update released, reporting on interim
  findings and indicating additional potential work
  areas initially in relation to Modelling
  Technology and Economic Impacts (2007.4).

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Industrial competitiveness impacts of the EU ETS
Embargoed until publication, 20 November 2007

• Modeling analysis of impacts on steel and cement