IDDRI is an independent institute which aims to bridge the gap between research and decision-making. IDDRI pursues a three-pronged strategy to this end: IDDRI seeks to inform decisions, identify emerging issues, and coordinate dialogue among stakeholders whose interests are often at odds. More specifically, IDDRI uses scientific research to shed light on political issues which have an impact on sustainable development, analysing key challenges to development models provoked by natural resource degradation and climate change. Through collaborative projects and conferences that bring together researchers, scientists, companies and political decision-makers, IDDRI encourages a common understanding of concerns, while putting them in a global perspective.
Its vision is based on three assumptions: the global changes resulting from human activities are unsustainable over the long-term; a complete transformation of development models is needed; the above can only be possible for coherent policies are implemented immediately at the global level, bringing about changes in lifestyles.
DDRI has co-piloted a carbon policy modelling exercise analysing various scenarios concerning interactions between carbon policy, energy, technologies, the economy, urban spatial design, and industrial production. These exercises were conducted at the global and regional levels, and modelled through the year 2050. The scenarios modelled include a current trends scenario, a low-carbon baseline scenario, a low-carbon scenario with a delay in CCS implementation, and a low-carbon scenario with a delay in decarbonisation efforts in developing countries.
IDDRI has brought together and collaborated with research laboratories (CIRED and LEPII), an energy information provider (Enerdata), and an association of French industrial and energy companies (EpE) to carry out this exercise. The exercise uses the tool POLES / IMACLIM-R, a hybrid model developed by the CIRED and LEPII laboratories.
The CLIP is composed of a loose association of government institutions, research partners, technology centres, and industrial companies.
Research areas and approaches that IDDRI can bring to LCS-RNet:
- Insight into international climate policy negotiations.
- Analysis of the practical implications of new technologies.
- Experience in working with industrials and modellers on climate policy modelling concerning the interactions between energy, economy, urban planning, and industrial production.
- IDDRI hopes that LCS-RNet can serve as a worldwide platform for efficiently sharing information on LCS, beyond IDDRI’s current network. This platform could possibly serve as a launchpad for future collaborative projects as well.
- In the near-term, a workable definition of a LCS could be: a society which is organised and functioning in such a way that carbon emissions are low enough to prevent climate change that will be difficult to predict and adapt to. In the current context, this corresponds to a carbon level that would restrict global temperature rise to 2°C or lower compared to pre-industrial levels.
