For the January 2015 edition of the Dutch magazine on international relations ‘Internationale Spectator’, TEC Consultants Stephan Slingerland and Hans Bolscher wrote an article entitled ‘Climate, Energy and Resources – When will the trend reversal finally arrive?’ (in Dutch). The article discusses international trends in climate, energy and resources for the year 2015. Will the…
Report: Management-summary -Review-Topsector-Energie-NL (412 KB) Report: Review-Topsector-Energie-part1 NL (3 MB) Report: Review-Topsector-Energie-part2 NL (913 KB) In the ‘Topsector Energie’ Programme of the Dutch Government, public research institutions and private companies are cooperating in energy innovation. The programme is co-funded by the government and the participating private partners. So far, more than 130 projects have been…
In order to maintain and further improve the effectiveness of EU climate-development projects, DG CLIMA has asked Trinomics together with Ricardo AEA for a thorough analysis of previous projects and lessons learnt from past projects in the period 2007-2013. This required an understanding of the state of play of the aid effectiveness agenda, particularly in…
Report: TTIP (3 MB) This month our study on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) for the European Parliament (ITRE Committee) came in the news. This study assessed whether and to which extent European energy markets and manufacturing industries would be affected by the TTIP. Although the negotiations are still on-going, the analysis shows…
The study funded by the United Nations International Trade Council (UN-ITC) analysed the coffee and cocoa export sector in Peru in relation to climate change. It assessed the level of awareness, vulnerability and capacity to adapt of agro exporting SMEs to the climate change impacts. Main conclusion is that perception of climate change as a…
Report: Building_certification_schemes (4 MB) In December 2014, Trinomics together with Ecofys and TNO (and several local subcontractors) finalised a market study on the voluntary common EU certification scheme for non-residential buildings, in accordance with EPBD Article 11(9), for DG Energy, European Commission. The study gave an overview of existing voluntary schemes and aimed at analysing…
Trinomics has been selected by the Directorate-General for Energy in the European Commission as one of the operators for a major Framework Agreement for providing qualified legal, technical and economic expertise in the design, preparation and proper implementation of EU initiatives and legislation in the area of Energy Efficiency. The Framework Agreement covers the following…
Trinomics in collaboration with Ricardo-AEA (lead partner), TNO and Lasting Values has been awarded a service contract by the European Commission’s DG Climate Action to provide Technical Assistance support to the Commission with the implementation of the NER300 Decision. The European Union’s main energy strategy documents – Energy 2020 and Energy Roadmap 2050 – emphasize…
Trinomics in collaboration with ARCADIS Belgium (lead partner) has been awarded a service contract by the European Commission’s DG Environment to analyse distortions of the functioning of waste markets in the EU, resulting from national, regional and local policy and legislation, and to recommend actions to improve the situation. The Communication ‘Towards a circular economy: a…
Trinomics, as lead partner, in collaboration with DNV GL, Enerdata, Nuclear Research and Consultancy (NRG) and Technopolis Group has been selected by the Directorate-General for Energy in the European Commission as one of the operators for a major Framework Agreement for conducting Impact Assessments and Evaluation (ex-ante, intermediate and ex-post) in the field of Energy.…
Trinomics has recently completed a market study of the (renewable) energy sector in Kenya, for the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) in Nairobi, to compile recommendations for EKN on how to formulate their economic diplomacy activities in Kenya. Special attention was paid to opportunities for the Dutch business community and public interventions…
Trinomics has been contracted by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) to support them in analysing the role of education, skills and employment in the transition towards sustainability in developing countries. The link between education, training and employment has been discussed during the EEDD conference, the Post 2015 agenda and at the preparation of the…
Trinomics has been contracted by the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) to support them in developing baseline analysis on skills and jobs in sustainable energy in the Caribbean. Currently, Trinomics (together with TNO Caribbean Branch Office and ASU Arizona State University) is carrying out an IDB-funded regional project “Building capacity and Regional Integration for the…
Report: Competitiveness-of-low-carbon-technologiesFinal-report-V1.3a (5 MB) Trinomics and Ricardo-AEA have been asked by the European Commission’s DG Climate Action to look at the competitiveness of low-carbon energy technologies – conceptual work in light of innovation and industrial policy. The study looks at bottom-up concepts for the cooperative production, financing and use of low carbon technologies, such as…
Trinomics, as lead partner, in collaboration with Alterra Wageningen, ARCADIS Belgium, REC, RPA and Stella Consulting, has been awarded a service contract by the European Commission’s DG Environment to support them in the implementation of Green Infrastructure. The objective of this assignment is to help further promote the uptake of Green Infrastructure (GI) across a…
Trinomics, as lead partner, in collaboration with TNO, has been awarded a study contract by the European Environment Agency. The team will carry out an assessment of the extent to which the thermal power sector in Member States and the EU has the potential to facilitate the necessary transition towards long-term EU energy and climate…
Trinomics has been awarded a study contract by the European Parliament’s ITRE Committee to produce a briefing paper on ‘EU energy governance: how does it work?’. In May 2014 a new European Parliament (EP) was elected. This means also that a new ITRE Committee will start its work soon, with in it new members that…
Trinomics, in collaboration with AidEnvironment (lead), has been awarded a study contract by the Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency (PBL) to assess the contribution of partnerships for development to inclusive green growth. This evaluation aims to generate insights in how to operationalize the concept and objectives of Inclusive Green Growth (IGG) through the mechanism of public-private…
Trinomics, as lead partner, in collaboration with Milieu Ltd, has been awarded a study contract by the European Parliament’s STOA Panel to carry out an assessment on technology options for deep seabed exploitation. The objective of the assignment is to identify challenges and opportunities of deep-sea resource exploration and exploitation to the European Union (EU)…
Report: Climate Change Adaptation and Employment (4 MB) Trinomics led a study for DG CLIMA (together with TNO and Ricardo-AEA) on the impacts of climate change adaptation on employment and skills in the EU. The final report can be downloaded here. This study feeds into the EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change (2013) by defining the…
Report: Pilot Tracking Mobilised Private Climate Finance (1 MB) The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs has commissioned a pilot study to review its climate finance programmes on the ability to mobilise private climate finance. In close collaboration with a team of policy officers from the Ministry, Trinomics developed a methodology and performed a trial calculation…
Report: Resource efficiency in the building sector (5 MB) On 1st of July 2014, the European Commission published its Communication on Resource efficiency opportunities in the building sector (COM(2014) 445 final), which is part of its Circular economy package. The main objectives of this Communication are to enhance the use of building materials in more efficient way and…
Trinomics staff members Hans Bolscher and Jeroen van der Laan contributed to a publication in the latest number of the Climate Policy Journal. The article called ” Developing a sectoral new market mechanism: insights from theoretical analysis and country showcases identifies available options for possible elements of New Market Mechanisms and reviews these options against a number…
Trinomics, as lead partner, in collaboration with TNO and with subcontracting services of Aether Ltd, ARCADIS Belgium, the Danish Centre of Environment and Energy (DCE), Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Oeko Institute, REC, Ricardo-AEA Ltd, RIVM, Transport and Mobility Leuven (TML), the University of Barcelona (UAB) and the University of the West of England (UWE)…
Report: Low Carbon Concepts (7 MB) The European economy is shifting to become more resource and energy efficient. Together with this shift, a related trend of decentralisation can be observed. Local initiatives and actors, such as (organised) citizens and local governments play an increasingly important role in this shift. These actors cooperate in new innovative…
Report: Impacts of Ecodesign & EL on R&D (3 MB) The Ecodesign and Labelling directives have the potential to not only deliver energy savings but also to positively impact the innovation activities and competitiveness of the manufacturers of the regulated products. With regard to the upcoming revision of the directives in 2014, it is therefore…
Trinomics, in collaboration with CE Delft (lead), has been awarded an important contract by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs to evaluate the performance and future directions of the Dutch ‘Topsector Energy’ (TSE). Since 2011, the Dutch ‘Topsector Energy’ coordinates public research and innovation in the field of energy. So far, more than 130 projects…
Trinomics has been awarded a study contract by the European Parliament’s ITRE Committee to assess the potential impacts of TTIP on the European energy markets and manufacturing industries. Since 2013, the European Union and the United States are negotiating a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) also known in the United States as the Transatlantic…
Trinomics, in collaboration with Milieu Ltd, has been awarded a study contract by the European Parliament to carry out an ex-post evaluation of European water legislation and assess the costs of not coordinating policies on a European level. With the Water Framework Directive’s (WFD) entry into force in 2000, the EU set itself long-ter, ambitious…
Trinomics, in collaboration with AMEC Environment & Infrastructure UK (lead) and Hayecon, has been awarded a contract by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to support the IFC’s Investment Climate Department in developing the resource efficiency agenda for both public and private sector organizations, in particular by strengthening the approach to financial mechanisms as well as…
Trinomics has been awarded a contract by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) in Nairobi to produce a market study in order to strengthen economic cooperation between Kenya and the Netherlands in the (renewable) energy sector. Trinomics will conduct this market study of the (renewable) energy sector in Kenya, to arrive at…
Trinomics, in collaboration with TNO’s Caribbean Branch Office (lead) and Arizona State University, has been awarded a major contract by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to provide a detailed assessment of the technical and professional capacity for sustainable energy and ICT in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Jamaica. There is an increasing need for energy in…
Disaster management on a European level is well developed but still Member States have developed context specific and local approaches to different types of disasters. To enhance the European approach to disaster management, in particular disaster prevention, consultants from Trinomics led a consortium consisting of CIMA, Ecorys, CGIAM and University of East Anglia, supported the…
Climate change is rapidly transforming the Arctic geographic, economic and social landscape. Melting ice and longer periods of ice-free waters are opening up for opportunities for resources extraction, shipping and other economic activity. The developments are putting a potentially enormous pressure on the Arctic environment. To improve and enhance the future governance of the Arctic…
Report: Het Echte Groene Boekje (5 MB) Report: Het Echte Groene Boekje – Presentatie IenM (1 MB) Green growth and the green economy are in the centre of public interest in recent years. The popularity of these terms stems from their embodied and positive claim that economic growth and environmental improvement can be combined. But…
Trinomics, as lead contractor, in collaboration with Optimat and Dr. Winifred Ijomah has been awarded a contract by the Environment and Forestry Directorate of the Scottish government to provide an assessment of fiscal instruments to stimulate a more circulate economy in Scotland. Within the context of Scotland’s Government Economic Strategy, Scotland is looking into policy…
Trinomics is one of the project partners within the FP7 SCOT Consortium (Smart CO2 Transformation – SCOT). Reducing CO2, protecting the environment and our resources, but also reducing dependency on raw materials is a major societal challenge. In this context, the EU has adopted ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80-95% below 1990…
Trinomics, as lead partner, in collaboration with TNO and Ricardo-AEA, has been awarded a major contract by the European Commission’s DG Climate Action to support the review of Directive 2009/31/EC on the geological storage of carbon dioxide (CCS Directive). The EU Directive on the geological storage of CO2was adopted by the European Council on April…
Report: RE indicators (3 MB) Indicators’ timeliness is vital for allowing quick and adequate policy response by policy makers. Early estimates and nowcasting are emerging techniques that are increasingly being used as a way to bridge the gap between the most recent reported observations of an indicator and its, as yet unreported, or even unmeasured,…
In 2012, the European Commission asked the team to assist with the selection of PCI for new electricity grid infrastructures as part of a new planning process that is based on involvement of stakeholders in several working groups. The main objectives of the study were to develop together with the Commission a methodology for assessing the…