6th Annual Meeting of the LCS-RNet in Rome, Italy
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| Welcome and Opening [Chair] Mikiko Kainuma, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan |
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| Welcome and opening Chair: Sergio La Motta, ENEA |
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| Welcome addresses Roberto Morabito, ENEA |
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| Introduction of the Meeting Shuzo Nishioka, LCS-RNet Secretariat / IGES |
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| Messages for policymakers from IPCC and the added value of LCS-RNet Jim Skea, Imperial College London |
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| Plenary 1: Can low carbon societies deliver on energy policy goals including security and affordability? Chair: Jim Watson, UKERC/Rapporteur: Rosella Virdis , ENEA |
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| How to deliver better policies integration? Takashi Hattori, IEA |
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| Energy security and climate policies: An unequal and transient marriage Jessica Jewell, IIASA |
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| Parallel Session 1-1: Innovative solutions to respond to the needs of the power system Chair: Stefan Lechtenbohmer, WI/Rapporteur: Sergio La Motta, ENEA |
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| From Theory to Reality – the Response to Climate Change H. M. Henning, Fraunhofer ISE |
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| Enabling decarbonisation of the fossil fuel based power sector through CCS Paolo Deiana, ENEA |
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| Improvements of electric and thermal energy storage Christine Krüger, WI |
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| Parallel Session 1-2: Energy use and behavior Chair: Andrea Bigano, CMCC/Rapporteur: Maria Yetano, WI |
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| Benefits for whom? Energy efficiency within the efficient market Dario Chello, ENEA |
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| User-integrated innovation in Sustainable Living Labs: Improve energy efficiency through behavioral change? Julia Nordmann, WI |
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| Governance and communication for energy efficiency Stefan Thomas, WI |
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| Plenary 2: Common challenge in resource efficiency improvement Chair: Roberto Morabito, ENEA/Rapporteur: Satoshi Kojima , IGES |
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| The transitional theory: clustering LCS, water and waste management, circular economy in order to achieve a wider transition towards LCS Derk Loorbach , DRIFT |
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| Exploring the economic case for low carbon cities: building momentum for a circular urban economy Sarah Colenbrander, University of Leeds |
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| Parallel Session 2-1: Resource efficiency improvement in the industrial sector in the more general framework of the joint transition to LCS and green economy Chair: Manfred Fischedick, WI/Rapporteur: Laura Cutaia, ENEA |
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| Basic materials in a LCS-transition Max Ahman and Lars Nilsson, Lund University |
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| Transitioning to a low-carbon society: Thoughts from an SCP perspective Magnus Bengtsson, IGES |
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| Reuse and recovery of raw materials, material flow (industrial symbiosis) Claudia Brunori, ENEA |
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| Parallel Session 2-2: LCS and related Resource efficiency improvement in territo-ries management Chair: Vincent Viguie, CIRED/Rapporteur: M. Peronaci, ENEA |
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| Urban GHG emissions and resource flows: methods for understanding the complex func-tioning of cities Maria Yetano, WI |
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| Rethinking cities in a post-carbon society– A French perspective Antoine Riviere, MEDDE |
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| Rome as a low carbon & resilient city Claudio Baffioni, Municipality of Rome |
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| Panel discussion: What the climate decision makers need from the research sector Chair: Hironori Hamanaka, IGES |
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| Raimondo Orsini, Italian States General of the Green Economy | |
| Lucy Hayes, UK Department of Energy and Climate Change | |
| Richard Lavergne, French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy | |
| Stefan Lechtenbohmer, WI, Germany | |
| Naoya Tsukamoto, IGES, Japan | |
| Day 2 | |
Plenary 3: Make low-carbon and resilient investments as leverage to renovate economy in crisis Chair: Tomohiro Sudo, JICA/Rapporteur: Christophe Cassen, CIRED |
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| A “paradigm shift” in the climate affair J. C. Hourcade, CIRED |
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| Environmental Fiscal Reform for promoting Low Carbon Economies A. Ravazzi , Italian Ministry of Environment |
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| Parallel Session 3-1: Barriers and opportunities of financing/investing in mitiga-tion and adaptation Chair: J. C. Hourcade, CIRED/Rapporteur: Daniela Palma, ENEA |
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| Barriers and opportunities for the cities Tomonori Sudo, JICA |
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| Trade-offs and synergies in urban climate policies – The case of Paris Vincent Viguie, CIRED |
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| The role of PPPs in scaling up financial flows in the post-Kyoto regime Giulia Galluccio, FEEM/CMCC |
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| Parallel Session 3-2: Building consensus to support climate change policies: genu-ine public engagement & bottom up local low carbon initiatives Chair: Jim Watson, UKERC/Rapporteur: Oscar Amerighi, ENEA |
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| Local experiences in energy transition Patrizia Lombardi, POLITO |
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| The participatory process to a low carbon economy in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia Manfred Fischedick, WI |
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| Public values for energy system change Karen Parkhill, Bangor University |
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| Plenary 4: Big win-win is here in directing low carbon resilient development path Chair: Toshihiko Masui, NIES/Rapporteur: Ioanna Ketsopoulou, UKERC |
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| How can research serve international policy-making towards low carbon development path? Looking forward P. R. Shukla, IIMA |
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| Potential of the UNFCCC’s technology mechanism to foster RD&D towards realizing low carbon development Gabriel Blanco, Universidad Nacional del Centro Argentina |
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| Parallel Session 4-1: Challenges in developing countries Chair: P. R. Shukla, IIMA/Rapporteur: Koji Fukuda, UNDP |
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| GIZ’s approaches: low-emission development strategies – Need for support from research Bernhard Zymla, GIZ |
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| The Theory of No Change – a tool for analyzing capacity building needs for low carbon development Christine Wörlen, Arepo Consult |
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| Role of research community in developing countries implementation of low carbon socie-ties concept – The case of Iskandar Malaysia Ho Chin Siong, UTM |
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| Parallel Session 4-2: How can emission pathway modeling contribute to raising ambition levels of nationally determined contributions (NDC)? Chair: Kentaro Tamura, IGES/Rapporteur: Takeshi Kuramochi, IGES |
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| How can emission pathway modeling contribute to raising ambition levels of nationally determined contributions (NDC)? – Modeling the roadmap of Thailand’s NAMAs and raising ambition levels of INDCs Bundit Limmeechokchai, Thammasat University |
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| Emission pathway modeling to analyze national ambition levels of decarbonization Mikiko Kainuma, IGES/NIES |
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| Panel discussion on the future plan of LCS-RNet towards COP21 in Paris Chairs: Sergio La Motta, ENEA / J. C. Hourcade, CIRED |
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| Ravazzi , Italian Ministry of Environment | |
| Jim Watson, UEKRC | |
| Naoya Tsukamoto, IGES | |
| Stefan Lechtenbohmer, WI | |
| Closing | |