Client: Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment (IenM) Implementation period: May, 2015 – April, 2016 (Completed) Geographic coverage: The Netherlands Theme: Environment Topic: Experts: Katarina Svatikova, Hans Bolscher What strategic opportunities exist in the Netherlands that ensure the sustainable supply of resources? In May 2015, HCSS, TNO and Trinomics created the Centre Of Expertise on Resources…
Client: European Environment Agency (EEA) Implementation period: October, 2017 – March, 2018 (Completed) Geographic coverage: Europe Theme: Climate Change Topic: Experts: Carmen van den Berg, Lisa Eichler, Jeroen van der Laan, Koen Rademaekers, Jessica Yearwood Travezán How to set up climate finance tracking procedures in order to develop clear financial flow diagrams? To reach the ambitious climate…
The Commission has recently published a proposal for a new LIFE Programme for the next period (2021-2027). The LIFE programme is the only EU fund exclusively dedicated to the environment and climate action that co-finances small-scale projects with high EU added value. The new proposal for a regulation was based on the result of an…
Client: European Commission – DG Climate Action Implementation period: January, 2017 – August, 2017 (Completed) Geographic coverage: European Union Theme: Climate Change Topic: Experts: Rob Williams, Jeroen van der Laan, Lisa Eichler How have the current (2014-2020) MFF arrangements for climate mainstreaming worked in practice – and what are the potential options for improvement? The EU is…
The five-year ‘RECREATE‘ project in which Trinomics participated has just held its final conference. It provides a suite of recommendations for the future of research and innovation in the European Union in the field of resources, raw materials and climate. The project results include ten short policy briefs with main findings, an innovation systems scoreboard,…
Client: European Environment Agency (EEA) Implementation period: June, 2018 – December, 2018 (Completed) Geographic coverage: Europe Theme: , Environment, Circular Economy Topic: Climate Change Mitigation Experts: Katarina Svatikova, Jurgen Vermeulen, Tycho Smit Quantifying the benefits of circular economy actions on the decarbonisation of the EU economy The circular economy has gained momentum in the political arena in…
Client: Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (EZK) Implementation period: June, 2017 – September, 2017 (Completed) Geographic coverage: The Netherlands Theme: Energy Topic: Energy Policy Experts: Stephan Slingerland, Koen Rademaekers, Elske Veenstra, Tycho Smit What is the economic potential as well as societal benefit of system innovations for the energy transition in the Netherlands? Under…
Client: Dutch ministry of Foreign Affairs (BZ) Implementation period: January, 2018 – April, 2018 (Completed) Geographic coverage: The Netherlands Theme: Climate Change Topic: Climate Finance Experts: Tycho Smit, Hans Bolscher How much private finance was mobilised by Dutch national climate finance? For the third year in a row, Trinomics has supported the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in…
For the third year in a row, Trinomics has supported the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the analysis and reporting on private climate finance that has been mobilised by the Netherlands. The results are now published on the website of the Government of the Netherlands. The report is one of the background documents to the Annual Report of…
As part of the evaluation of the 7th Environmental Action Programme (7th EAP), our colleague Rob Williams (senior expert on energy and the environment) will be speaking at a conference in Vienna concerning future EU environmental policy. He will participate as a panellist in the discussion on “State of Environment and Challenges for the next…
Trinomics is helping DG Environment and DG Climate Action to evaluate the 7th Environment Action Programme to see what worked well, and what could have worked better. The Evaluation focuses on the structure and strategic role played by the 7th EAP and asks how it helped to deliver a better environment in practice. In line…
Client: European Commission – DG Energy Implementation period: April, 2016 – October, 2016 (Completed) Geographic coverage: European Union Theme: Energy Topic: Experts: Rob Williams, Jessica Yearwood Travezán Study with evaluation criteria on early estimates of main energy balance sheets components in 2015 and for the production and visualisation of indicators to monitor Energy Union implementation An integrated…
Client: European Environment Agency (EEA) Implementation period: November, 2017 – April, 2017 (Completed) Geographic coverage: Europe Theme: Climate Change Topic: Emission Reduction Pathways Experts: Matthew Smith, Tycho Smit What were the driving factors behind the reduced emissions of key pollutants from large combustion plants (LCPs)? Between 2004-2015, the emissions of four key pollutants originating from large combustion…
(For Spanish version, please scroll down) The Paris Climate Agreement saw the establishment of a new multilateral source of finance for projects directed at mitigating and adopting to climate change in developing countries: the Green Climate Fund (GCF). In the framework of the ‘GCF Readiness Programme’, formed subsequent to the fund’s creation by the United…
Client: United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Implementation period: February, 2018 – June, 2018 (Ongoing) Geographic coverage: El Salvador Theme: Climate Change Topic: International Climate Finance Experts: Jeroen van der Laan, Jessica Yearwood Travezán, Niclas Gottmann Preparing El Salvador for (international) climate finance: development of a monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) system The Paris Climate Agreement saw the…
Client: European Commission – DG Climate Action/DG Environment Implementation period: January, 2018 – May, 2018 (Completed) Geographic coverage: European Union Theme: Climate Change, Environment Topic: Experts: Rob Williams, Katarina Svatikova, Federica Gerber, Foivos Petsinaris What will the post-2020 LIFE programme look like? As the current programming period of LIFE (2014-2020) is coming to an end, this study…
Client: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Implementation period: August, 2017 – April, 2018 (Completed) Geographic coverage: El Salvador Theme: Climate Change Topic: Experts: Jeroen van der Laan, Jessica Yearwood Travezán, Niclas Gottmann Preparing El Salvador for (international) climate finance: drawing up a strategic roadmap and designing an inter-institutional architecture The Paris Climate Agreement saw the establishment of…
Client: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (BZ) Implementation period: November, 2016 – February, 2017 (Completed) Geographic coverage: Sub-Saharan Africa, The Netherlands Theme: Energy Topic: Renewable and Low-carbon Energy Experts: Jurgen Vermeulen, Elske Veenstra How well is the Dutch Access to Energy Fund performing? In 2004, the Dutch government committed to providing 10 million people in developing countries…
Client: European Environment Agency (EEA) Implementation period: May, 2018 – December, 2018 (Ongoing) Geographic coverage: Europe Theme: Energy Topic: Experts: Rob Williams, Jessica Yearwood Travezán, Elske Veenstra What indicators best measure progress towards the EU’s energy objectives? This project involved the provision of assistance to the EEA in sourcing and analysing potential indicators to monitor progress towards…
Three European projects are presenting a united front in Brussels during EU Green Week, 21 – 25th May 2018. ClairCity (Citizen-Led Air Pollution Reduction in Cities), iSCAPE (Improving the Smart Control of Air Pollution in Europe) and ICARUS (Integrated Climate forcing and Air pollution Reduction in Urban Systems) are hosting a joint stand in the…
Client: European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Implementation period: July, 2016 – November, 2016 (Completed) Geographic coverage: European Union Theme: Energy Topic: Energy Policy Regulation and Markets Experts: Koen Rademaekers, Jessica Yearwood Travezán, Luc van Nuffel Which policies can facilitate the realisation of the required investments in the electricity sector? This study was prepared…
Client: European Parliament – Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Implementation period: December, 2016 – February, 2017 (Completed) Geographic coverage: European Union Theme: Energy Topic: Experts: Jessica Yearwood Travezán, Koen Rademaekers, Luc van Nuffel How can we potentially tackle the EU gas import dependence, to enhance security of supply? The aim of this assignment was to…
Client: European Parliament – Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Implementation period: April, 2017 – June, 2017 (Completed) Geographic coverage: European Union Theme: Energy Topic: Experts: Jessica Yearwood Travezán, Koen Rademaekers, Luc van Nuffel What is the potential of electricity demand response in the EU? The aim of this assignment was to prepare a workshop on…
Client: European Commission – DG Energy Implementation period: May, 2016 – May, 2017 (Completed) Geographic coverage: European Union Theme: Energy Topic: Experts: Koen Rademaekers, Luc van Nuffel What is the impact of diverging transmission tariff structures in EU Member States? This study was prepared with the overall objective to support the European Commission in the impact assessment…
Last week we kicked off a new project for the European Commission (DG Environment) within the topic of environmental policy. The assignment concerns a Fitness Check (evaluation) of the various directives forming the backbone of EU Freshwater Policy, including – but not limited to – the Water Framework Directive and the Floods Directive. This evaluation will result…
The European Commission recently published the first deliverable of our study on ‘Building the investment community for innovative energy projects’. The overall objective of the study is to build/strengthen the investment community for innovative energy technologies, in order to increase the volume invested. Financing is…
Client: DG Environment (ENV) (European Commission) Implementation period: April, 2018 – July, 2019 (Ongoing) Geographic coverage: European Union Theme: Environment Topic: Environmental Economics and Policies Experts: Rob Williams, Jurgen Vermeulen, Federica Gerber, Koen Rademaekers, Graeme Nicholls, Kym Whiteoak How well has the EU freshwater policy framework succeeded in ensuring ‘good’ freshwater? EU Freshwater Policy aims to protect…
Industrial symbiosis is a systems approach to a more sustainable and integrated industrial system, which identifies business opportunities that leverage underutilised resources (such as materials, energy, water, capacity, expertise, assets etc.). The comprehensive Industrial Symbiosis study that Trinomics, together…
The EU faces numerous environmental pressures. Impressive results in reducing these pressures have already been achieved, yet several challenges persist. The 7th Environmental Action Programme (7th EAP) was created to provide a framework for EU environmental policy to more effectively tackle the challenges. It also provides a vision of where the EU should be by…
This report summarises the presentation and discussions of the workshop on ‘National Strategies for Renewables: Energy Efficiency, Building Renovation and Self-consumption’. The workshop was held on 22 February 2018, hosted by the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) of the European Parliament. The aim…
Client: European Parliament – Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Implementation period: January, 2018 – March, 2018 (Completed) Geographic coverage: European Union Theme: Energy Topic: Experts: Luc van Nuffel, Jessica Yearwood Travezán, Koen Rademaekers How do national strategies for renewable energy sources relate to energy efficiency targets and other relevant climate and energy policies? The EU…
Consciously or unconsciously, the sharing economy (or collaborative economy) has provided many consumers with more and often cheaper alternatives of products and services in many sectors of the economy. During holidays we rent apartments with Airbnb, we borrow a ladder from a neighbour with Peerby, or we join a ride with a stranger to visit relatives in another city with Blablacar. Many of the collaborative economy platforms have…
Client: European Commission – DG Environment Implementation period: January, 2017 – December, 2017 (Completed) Geographic coverage: European Union Theme: Environment Topic: Experts: Katarina Svatikova, Jurgen Vermeulen, Tycho Smit, Laura Baroni Is the collaborative economy good for the environment? The emergence of the collaborative economy or sharing economy is a fascinating new trend. Emerging business models (for example,…
Client: European Environment Agency (EEA) Implementation period: March, 2018 – December, 2018 (Ongoing) Geographic coverage: Europe Theme: Energy, Environment Topic: Biodiversity and Natural Capital Experts: Laura Baroni, Lisa Eichler, Jurgen Vermeulen, Graeme Nicholls How can the roll-out of green infrastructure initiatives in Europe be further enhanced? A financial and economic perspective This project focuses on expanding the…
In October 2017, the newly elected Dutch government presented their coalition agreement. In order to meet the Paris Agreement, the government indicated that it aims to reduce the emissions by 56 Megaton by 2030 – a reduction of 49% compared to the emissions in 1990. To the surprise of some, a third of the total…
Client: Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (EZK) Implementation period: January, 2018 – August, 2018 (Completed) Geographic coverage: The Netherlands Theme: Climate Change Topic: Experts: Jurgen Vermeulen, Hans Bolscher, Joris Moerenhout What are the options to create a successful Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) market in the Netherlands? In order to meet the Paris Agreement,…
Client: European Environment Agency (EEA) Implementation period: October, 2017 – March, 2018 (Completed) Geographic coverage: Europe Theme: Energy Topic: Energy Policy Regulation and Markets Experts: Stephan Slingerland, Federica Gerber, Tycho Smit What are the challenges for the energy transition in Europe and how can they be solved? In this study conducted by Trinomics a macro-level analysis was…
The EU has set out to become a global leader in the fight against climate change. This is mirrored in its ambitious climate and energy targets up until 2030. By that year, GHG emissions will have to be 40% below 1990 levels, renewable energy needs to represent 27% of gross final energy consumption, and energy consumption will have to decrease by 27% in comparison to the BAU scenario. In the analytical study entitled ‘Energy and the MFF’…
Client: European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Implementation period: January, 2017 – January, 2018 (Completed) Geographic coverage: European Union Theme: Energy Topic: Energy Policy Regulation and Markets Experts: Rob Williams, Lisa Eichler, Niclas Gottmann How can EU funds best support the achievement of the Union’s ambitious energy and climate targets? Since the release of…
Client: European Commission – DG Environment Implementation period: January, 2018 – December, 2018 (Ongoing) Geographic coverage: European Union Theme: Environment Topic: Experts: Rob Williams, Katarina Svatikova, Jurgen Vermeulen, Irati Artola, Federica Gerber, William Keeling Does the 7th EAP facilitate us “living well, within the limits of our planet”? The EU has faced numerous environmental pressures over the…
