QUARTERLY BULLETIN

EARTH DAY 2023

INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT

• IDDRI submission on the Consideration of Outputs of the Global Stocktake
• We also sent a submission to the UNFCCC on the Global Stocktake and international finance. You can read the blog about it on the IDDRI website.
• Anna Perez-Catala was a guest speaker at the Seminar: Options for the Political Phase of the Global Stocktake hosted by the German Environment Agency
• We conducted a Global Stocktake negotiator dialogues hosted by IDDRI. This was a closed door meeting that took place the 21st April.
• We have a podcast (in French) about "Decarbonising maritime transport: reducing distances to reduce emissions"
• NDC Aspects project meeting hosted in Paris - 25 and 26 April
• DDP expert members, including Dr.Sudharmma Vishwanathan & Prof. Grag have attended the IPCC convening of the Seventh Assessment Report Cycle

COUNTRY ENGAGEMENT

 UPDATES FROM INDIA 

  UPDATES FROM SOUTH AFRICA  

• The University of Cape Town's team published the South African Net Zero Report, building on the scenario and engagement DDP work over the last few years under Bryce McCall leadership
• Hilton Trollip is taking the floor during "Roadmap workshop for decarbonisation of the steel sector in South Africa" organised by the Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT) and the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition, taking place in April 2023
• Hilton Trollip has been regularly taking part in the public debate of the electricity crisis and the energy system transformation, namely through television interviews.

  UPDATES FROM SENEGAL

• ENDA organised a stakeholder meeting on March 23 with several energy stakeholders to validate the set of scenarios that will be developed in the project, and that will provide the basis for the country's Long-Term Strategy. In order to provide fundamental information on the share of renewable energy that Senegal can achieve in the coming 5-10 years to the ongoing process that targets a Just Energy Transition Partnership for Senegal, the process has been accelerated in the past months.

  UPDATES FROM NIGERIA

• The DDP-Nigeria team had a face-to-face retreat at Enugu between 31 March 2023 and 02 April 2023, which involved the presentation of sectoral-based results under various scenarios - Business As Usual (BAU), Current Policy Scenario (CPS), Gas Economy Scenario (GES) and Renewable Energy Scenario (RES).
• The DDP-Nigeria Project was responsible for the quantitative analysis of the LT-LEDS scenarios collaboratively with the 2050 Pathways Platform. Going forward, the retreat outlined the future work to be done and the plan to execute the work with the timeline.

PUBLICATIONS

• "Passenger transport decarbonization in emerging economies: policy lessons from modelling long-term deep decarbonization pathways" published in the journal of Climate Policy
• "Towards net-zero emissions concrete and steel in India, Brazil and South Africa" published in the journal of Climate Policy
• "Macroeconomics of decarbonization strategies of selected global south countries: A systematic review" published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
• "Transport sector decarbonisation in the Global South: A systematic literature review" published in Energy Strategy Reviews
• "Deep decarbonization options for the agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) sector in Africa: a systematic literature review" published in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
• Hilton Trollip has contributed to the review of the Insights Report entitled: "Unlocking the first wave of breakthrough steel investments in France", drafted by the Energy Transitions Commission