LOW CARBON ENERGY
ROADMAPS
Designing and Implementing Low Carbon Development Strategies,
Learning Lessons from the Ground:
Alexander Ochs, Director of Climate and Energy, Worldwatch Institute
Bonn, June 11th 2011

Our Methodology

Creating low-carbon energy systems
A holistic approach
• WWI roadmaps lay out
strategies for the creation of
low-carbon energy systems
based on the technical,
economic, political and
financial assessment of
alternative solutions in
energy production,
consumption, and
distribution.
Renewable
resources
potentials
Efficiency,
distribution
& storage
Socio-
economic
assessment
Financial
incentives
Laws and
Regulation
Planning and
targets

Country specific support
• For ICI: Low-Carbon
Energy Roadmaps in the
Dominican Republic, Haiti,
and Jamaica
• Close cooperation with the
governments of all three
countries
• Consultations with national
stakeholders

Physical Resources Mapping
• In-depth analysis of
nation-wide resources
and specific sites for
each technology
• Technical training

Technical assessment
• Examining challenges
for grid integration and
transmission
• Exploring off- and
micro-grid solutions
• Storage

Socio-economic assessment
• Electricity prices
• Cost savings
• Job creation
• Local pollution
• Health impacts

Policy
Policy
• Long-term planning
• Mainstreaming policies,
• Facilitating stakeholder
engagement
• Tools to track policy
implementation

Finance
• Assessment of investment
barriers
• Scaling up public domestic
financial support
mechanism
• Capacity building for the
commercial banking sector

Impacting the UNFCCC

Low Carbon Development Strategies in the
Cancun Agreements
Text of the CanAg:
• Paragraph 6: Agrees that Parties should cooperate in achieving the peaking of
global and national GHG emissions as soon as possible, recognizing that the time
frame for peaking will be longer in developing countries, and bearing in mind that
social and economic development and poverty eradication are the first and
overriding priorities of developing countries and that a low-carbon development
strategy is indispensable to sustainable development.
• Paragraph 45: Decides that developed countries should develop low carbon
development strategies or plans
• Paragraph 65 : Encourages developing countries to develop low carbon
development strategies or plans in the context of sustainable development

From local action to global
governance - and back
Pledges /
international
registry
• Multilateral cooperation, building an international regime
Low-
emissions
development
strategy
• Low-emissions development strategies outline a broader
sustainable development path
Sectoral
NAMAs
• e.g: Energy Roadmaps assessing the energy situation and
laying out the path forward to a sustainable energy system
Project
NAMAs
• Individual projects within a sector

Finance: GCF
An example of “spending
wisely?”
• Create the conditions for the
development of the sector
• Leveraging private finance

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