POLET session at What Works Climate Solutions Summit 2024
POLET research group hosted a session on Accelerating Low Carbon Energy Transitions in the What Works Climate Solutions Summit 2024, 9-12 June in Berlin.
Six members from POLET hosted a session on Accelerating Low Carbon Energy Transitions in What Works Climate Solutions Summit 2024
The overarching question of this conference is WhatWorks in climate policy. In other words which policies can deliver the emissions reductions needed to mitigate climate change? The conference provided a lot of answers but also raised more questions. For example, to which extent do policy-makers need evidence on what are ‘right’ climate policies. Or do they already know what the right policies are and simply find it difficult to enact and implement them? In other words, policies that work are not always feasible.
This is the theme that the POLET research session dug into. It examined the feasibility of accelerating the expansion of both mature technologies like solar PV and onshore wind power and emerging technologies like CCS. We also examined the feasibility of accelerating coal phase-out and the interaction between energy crises – like that which Europe currently faces – and the speed of energy transitions. The discussions were rich and ranged from methodological questions such as how to use empirical data to understand future possibilities and also policy-questions about the role of the market versus policies in shaping the speed and depth of energy transitions.
Below are the full titles of the four talks delivered:
Aleh Cherp, Anastasia Pavlenko, and Jessica Jewell: “Do energy crises accelerate decarbonisation? The case of REPowerEU”
Avi Jakhmola, Jessica Jewell, Vadim Vinichenko, and Aleh Cherp: “Future growth of wind and and solar power projected by historical national experience”
Tsimafei Kazlou, Jessica Jewell, and Aleh Cherp: “Feasible deployment of CCS and the requirements of climate targets”
Lola Nacke, Jessica Jewell, Aleh Cherp, Vadim Vinichenko, Avi Jakhmola, and Marta Vetier: “Phasing out coal power. Technology, policy and justice”
