LIST's participation in COP22

The twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) will be held in Bab Ighli, Marrakech, Morocco from 7-18 November 2016. A delegation from Luxembourg will take part in this COP which aims at "Accelerating implementation of the Paris Agreement".

The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) supports the Luxembourg Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructures within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Dr Andrew Ferrone, one of its experts in climatology, is attending the meeting as member of the Luxembourg delegation. 

Global Energy and Climate Outlook (GECO)

In the framework of COP22, on November 11th, the European Commission will be arranging a side event on “Global Energy and Climate Outlook (GECO): from Paris to Marrakech”. The main goal of the GECO taskforce is to investigate the effect of global energy policies on greenhouse gas emissions until 2050. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was invited to contribute with a presentation on their recently published "Green Energy Choices" report to which Thomas Gibon (LIST / ERIN department) contributed during his Ph.D. thesis time at NTNU in Norway.

Thomas will attend and present the results of this report on behalf of lead author (and thesis supervisor) Prof. Edgar Hertwich. Based on life cycle assessment data and methods, this study aimed at identifying and/or quantifying the environmental consequences of low-carbon electricity deployment. Main findings include the substantial trade-off between climate change mitigation and the high material requirements (steel, concrete, copper) of a low-carbon global energy system; the co-benefits of climate change mitigation and cleaner air; as well as site- and project-specific environmental issues (such as direct emissions of hydropower dams or underestimated fugitive methane emissions from natural gas extraction).

> The report is available at unep.org