Climate & Sustainability

Our activities in Climate & Sustainability focus on addressing key environmental and energy challenges and supporting the transition towards a low-carbon and sustainable future. Through research, innovative methodologies and decision-support tools, particular emphasis is placed on the following areas:

• Renewable Energy Sources, including tools for the promotion of market penetration of Renewable Energy Sources technologies, achievement of the Kyoto Protocol goals through the implementation of RES projects especially in the Mediterranean and developing countries, development of decision support systems for the provision of services on RES, as well as investigation of the suitable funding mechanisms for implementation of RES projects (TPF, subsidies).
• Environmental Policy Models, including tools for the integration of the environmental dimension in the development of large-scale energy modelling devices, customised databases and decision-making support tools for the development and application of energy-environmental policies, development of reference scenarios for projects to be implemented under the Kyoto Protocol Mechanisms (Clean Development Mechanism - CDM, Joint Implementation - JI).