The Energy Economics Group participates in an interdisciplinary study, from the Inclusive Forum on Carbon Mitigation Approaches (IFCMA). The Forum is the OECD’s flagship initiative designed to help optimise the global impact of emissions reduction efforts around the world through better data and information sharing, evidence-based mutual learning and better mutual understanding, and inclusive multilateral dialogue. There are currently 59 IFCMA members, including 14 G20 members.
The EEG contributes to the Swiss Pilot Case study with the JRC-EU-TIMES model. The study performs an impact assessment of environmental and energy policies currently in Swiss legislation, focusing on transport, industry, and buildings. The assessed policies consider measures like fuel excise taxes, EV subsidies, energy labels for new passenger cars, and policies set at the subnational level to inform approaches to other countries with a federal government structure.
The Swiss Pilot Case study serves as a testing ground for various methodological approaches, and to help the IFCMA: a) to identify and address potential challenges, as well as good practices; b) explore ways to scale methodologies to a broader set of IFCMA members, considering potential data and resource limitations that some countries may face; and; c) converge towards a set of methodological options that is relevant for a wide set of countries while considering country-specific economic and emission profiles, and mitigation policy approaches.