Trinomics, in collaboration with lead partner ADE and with CLIMACT, is proud to share the publication on the evaluation of Belgian international climate finance. The report is the result of a year-long study across Belgium and two of its partner countries for development cooperation: Senegal and Tanzania. It explains how Belgium is tackling the global…
The Energy and Climate Governance Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 requires the European Commission (EC) to assess whether the national long-term strategies are adequate for the collective achievement of the objectives and targets of the Energy Union and the long-term Union greenhouse gas (GHG) commitments consistent with the Paris Agreement. It also requires the European Commission to…
Trinomics is pleased to announce that it is now an official member of the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN). “The CTCN is the operational arm of the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism, hosted by the UN Environment Programme and the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)”. It aims at promoting the rapid uptake and transfer of environmentally sound technologies in the fields of climate…
With the adoption of the European Green Deal in December 2019, climate change and environmental challenges are now at the top of the EU political agenda. The main objective of the European Green Deal is reaching a climate neutral Europe (that is, net-zero greenhouse gas emissions (GHG)) by 2050. In order to set the EU…
Trinomics, together with Ricardo and Tyrsky Consulting, is supporting the European Commission in analysing and presenting the results of two open public consultations that are integral part of the European Green Deal. We invite all citizens and interested stakeholders to share their views on the European Climate Pact and on the 2030 Climate Plan! The consultations are open until 27 May 2020 and 23 June…
What: Expert discussion (public) on industrial transition options, organised by The European CCUS Projects Network When: Wednesday, March 11th, 2020 time: 9:00 – 17:30 hours Place: Atelier29, Rue Jacques de Lalaing 29, Brussels The European CCUS Projects Network is pleased to invite you to its first public event taking place on March 11th, 2020 in…
Would you like to join Trinomics team? We have two new job openings for a Consultant in Climate Change and a Senior Consultant in Climate Change. You can find out more details about our new vacancies in the section Work for us, including full descriptions of the required profiles.
The CCUS Projects Network represents and supports major industrial projects under way across Europe in the field of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture and utilisation (CCU). The European Commission recognises these technologies as crucial to achieving 2050 climate targets. With support from the Network’s Secretariat, our members will work together to share…
As part of the expansion of our international business operations, we are now looking for an (international) climate finance specialist to join our climate team to support the cluster manager in further expanding Trinomics’ project portfolio in the area of climate mitigation/adaptation finance, climate finance strategies and (international) climate policy development and assessments (such as…
As part of the expansion of our international business operations, we are now looking for an (international) climate adaptation specialist to join our climate team to support the cluster manager in further expanding Trinomics’ project portfolio in the area of climate adaptation (finance), climate resilience & vulnerability and (international) climate policy assessments. We are looking…
Trinomics is part of a consortium that has been selected as one of the lead providers of climate change expertise to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) under their program of support through Communities of Practice (CoP). Together with our partners CowaterSogema (lead), Climatekos, Viresco Solutions and ESSA Technologies, we will provide expertise in five core…
Report: adapt_strat_eval_report_en (3 MB) DG Climate Action published on 12th November 2018 its evaluation of the EU strategy on adaptation to climate change – see here. This evaluation was underpinned by work carried out by Trinomics (as part of a team led by Ricardo E&E and also including IEEP and Wageningen Environmental Research). The evaluation…
The Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP) was set up by the United Kingdom government, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in December 2015 with a generous budget of £48 million and is set to run until 2020. In essence, the platform serves as a project preparation facility (PPF) seeking to get promising…
The European Commission is preparing a long-term strategy for greenhouse gas emissions reduction in anticipation of the 24th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP24), taking place in Katowice in December 2019. The strategy is being developed in the context of the full framework of existing EU policies and strategies, but it must also…
Our consortium is awarded with the assignment to analyse and aggregate the Member States’ information on climate finance for the European Commission (DG Climate Action) for 2017 and 2018. The consortium is led by Oeko Institute, supported by Trinomics and Ricardo-AEA. Article 16 of the EU greenhouse gas Monitoring Mechanism Regulation (MMR) requires Member States…
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…
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,…
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…
(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…
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…
The EEA has published a briefing ‘Releases of pollutants to the environment from Europe’s industrial sector’ based on the report ‘Transforming the EU power sector: avoiding a carbon lock-in‘ which was prepared with support from Trinomics. The EEA’s briefing analyses emissions from the largest industrial facilities (including power plants, petrochemical refineries and metal processing plants) which report…
Report: State-of-play of European climate finance tracking (published 6 July 2017) ( ) This Trinomics report has been prepared to underpin the European Environment Agency’s briefing on ‘Financing Europe’s low carbon, climate resilient future‘. The study report Trinomics prepared for the EEA presents the findings of a first Europe-wide stocktaking exercise to assess the current status of climate…
The eleven detailed city case studies on financial models for implementing urban adaptation measures that Trinomics and its partners Arcadis and TNO have developed under a recent project for the European Environment Agency (published here) have been integrated in the new European Environment Agency report on ‘Financing urban adaptation to climate change’. This report offers…
Today, the European Environment Agency released the ‘Climate Change, Impacts and Vulnerability 2016’ report. The report assesses the latest trends and projections on climate change and its impacts across Europe. In a nutshell, climate change poses increasingly severe risks for ecosystems, human health and the economy in Europe. One of the main conclusions is that…
The 2015 Paris Agreement has set an unprecedented worldwide agreement to tackle greenhouse gas emissions to limit the rate of global warming (mitigation), as well as at the same time to take measures that help prepare for current and future climate change impacts (adaptation). Both of these elements require unparalleled redirection of investments. Recognizing this,…
Climatekos and Trinomics have written a handbook to support countries in the South region of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) in accessing climate finance. The handbook, with the title “Accessing climate finance: A step-by-step approach for practitioners”, was released in a joint EIB/ClimaSouth side event at the COP-22 in Marrakesh. The ENPI South…
Europe faces two carbon challenges: it needs to curb carbon emissions to mitigate climate change, and at the same time it needs new carbon-based resources for its process industries. The process industry sector is currently still dependent on fossil fuel imports, and is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. Low-carbon solutions can provide…
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published the report on the low carbon transition in the power sector in the European Union. This report, prepared with support from Trinomics, provides a better understanding of the theoretical evolution of fossil fuel capacity by 2030 and how this would contrast with the qualitatively different EU power sector needed in order to achieve EU climate…
Trinomics will be present during the European Week of Regions and Cities, in the side event: “Improving air-quality and carbon footprint in cities: Enhancing synergies among EU-funded R&I projects” representing the Horizon 2020 project ClairCity (Citizen Led AIR pollution reduction in Cities). The side event will take place on October 11 in Covent Garden 2,…
For the last three years, Trinomics has been part of the SCOT (Smart CO<sub>2</sub> Transformation) consortium, a collaborative European project in the area of CO<sub>2</sub> re-use. CO<sub>2</sub> re-use is a broad term that covers a variety of innovative industrial processes which use CO<sub>2</sub> from point source emitters (and in the future from direct air capture) as…
Report: Urban adaptation report ( ) The new EEA report on ‘Urban adaptation to climate change in Europe 2016 — Transforming cities in a changing climate’ builds on and complements existing products and initiatives on urban adaptation in Europe, among others the case study reports prepared by Trinomics on developing urban case studies on synergies between…
At the Paris Climate Conference in 2015, 195 countries agreed to limit the global average temperature rise well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C. Moreover, they agreed to make financing flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions and climate resilient development. Achieving such reductions…
In light of the EU Green Week 2016, which kicked off last Monday in this year’s European Green Capital, Ljubljana, EASME has shed light on five projects – funded through Horizon 2020 – which help European cities invest in a greener future. One of these projects is CLAir-CITY, led by Trinomics. The full note can be…
A consortium of universities and research institutions, led by Trinomics from The Netherlands, has won a €6,7 million EU funded project to actively engage European citizens in 6 countries to research their personal impact on air quality and CO2 emissions in their cities. The project will use innovate tools like specially made apps and games…
Trinomics consultants Hans Bolscher and Elske Veenstra have given their perspective on the pledge of $100 billion climate finance from developed countries to developing countries in the Dutch magazine Nieuwsbrief Milieu en Economie. The agreement at the COP21 in Paris has brought new hope, but many questions on the $100 billion pledge are still outstanding:…
Report: Financing meaningful mitigation actions (2 MB) The European Commission has published a report by Trinomics and Ricardo-AEA as part of the Scaling up Climate Finance in 2014 and beyond project. The report assesses the financing of meaningful climate mitigation initiatives in Chile, India, Vietnam, Ecuador and South Africa. The case studies focus in the transport and…
Over the last years, the EU has set a number of policies in place to support energy efficiency and a transition to a low carbon economy. In October 2014, the European Council agreed the EU’s mid-term climate and energy targets under the 2030 Climate and Energy Framework: a 40% domestic reduction in GHG emissions, a minimum…
Trinomics, in collaboration with Ricardo-AEA (lead partner), IEEP and VITO, has been awarded a service contract by the European Commission’s DG Climate Action to evaluate and provide support for assessing the impact of the Effort Sharing Decision (No 406/2009/EC). The Effort Sharing Decision (ESD) was agreed by the EU as part of the Climate and Energy…
Report: climate-friendly_investments_en (4 MB) On 15 April 2015 the European Commission (EC) has published the report on ‘Shifting Private Finance towards Climate Friendly Investments – Policy options for mobilising institutional investors’ capital for climate-friendly investment’. Both the authors (Trinomics, Climate Bonds Initiative, 2° Investing Initiative, Frankfurt School UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance, CDC Climat,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Trinomics, as lead partner, in collaboration with Alterra Wageningen, Climatekos Ltd, Ecologic, Get2C and Tecnalia has been selected by the European Investment Bank for the Framework Agreement on the provision of consultancy services to the Projects Directorate in the area of climate action, to support the EIB’s Environment, Climate and Social Office (ECSO). The Projects…
Trinomics has been commissioned a support contract by Transparencia Mexicana, part of Transparency International (TI), to support the Latin-American chapters of Transparency International in tracking climate finance. Specifically, the project team will assist TI’s Peru and Mexico Chapters in obtaining funds for the implementation of a regional platform to track climate finance geographically. The previous…
Report: Overkoepelende Analyse Sectorstudies (518 KB) Trinomics has conducted a study on the role of climate policies on the competitiveness position of four industrial sectors in the Netherlands: the chemical industry, the steel sector, the cement sector and the refinery sector. While production in regions outside the EU is growing and energy prices and resource…
Trinomics has been commissioned a support contract by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to track private sector climate finance that has been mobilised by the Netherlands through the use of public interventions and public finance instruments. In November 2010, the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) published its assessment…