To inform the development of future energy and climate policies at national and European levels we have successfully organised and co-hosted with the European Commission, the online conference European Climate and Energy Modelling Platform 2022 (ECEMP, formerly EMP-E) in which we presented the model comparison work of ECEMF. We have also conducted the first three of eight policy research workshops to co-develop research questions to ensure that the research agenda is adapted to address important topics. The Scenario Explorer is currently used internally, and we will provide a public-facing version during 2023 to publish European climate neutrality scenarios. A public forum is available at
http://community.ecemf.eu(öffnet in neuem Fenster) and the visualisation functionality under development will be made available during 2023. Together, these technologies will support near real-time distributed digital discussions with national and EU policymakers with the capacity to field parallel threads of questions and answers on data, assumptions, and scenarios and increase the exposure of the project through embedded interactive visualisations sharable on social media. We will publish 12 synthesis reports and 12 policy briefs on different aspects of the project as part of our dissemination and community strategy.
We have been actively working to create a closer European modelling community, setting an example in terms of transparency, openness and reuse of existing standards and codes that we hope will set the standard for future efforts in this space. We have published the Diagnostic Model Comparison Protocol under an open license and will do the same with the Model Comparison Protocol on Net Zero scenarios. We have published a preliminary draft of the open teaching materials online (
https://www.ecemf.eu/learn/(öffnet in neuem Fenster)) and will develop a course for the first of eight planned capacity-building workshops which will be held at the OpenMod workshop in March 2023. Within the project, we have adopted existing standards developed in the OpenEntrance project and further improved them, rather than creating our own.
Through the reporting and dissemination of our core research activities – with the largest model comparison effort focussing on European climate neutrality - we will present a more coherent, unified evidence base that will, in turn, form a concrete basis for action by policymakers.
We are working to improve collaboration beyond Europe, which will lead to a greater influence on global energy and climate policy. For example, we have initiated a cross-model comparison between ECEMF and Stanford EMF of North America and Europe, which will come to fruition during 2024.
We have created a publicly accessible and fully open-source software ecosystem for the comparison of data, scenarios and results including toolkits, scripts and data standards to strengthen the visibility and acceptance of open science in the European energy and climate modelling community and beyond.
We have also established a stakeholder network, and are working towards launching a Secretariat and governance structure to create the forum as a permanent fixture in the European energy and climate research space.
