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Webinar: Four new tools to support Integrated Climate and Development Planning

This webinar focuses on a series of new SEI tools designed to support integrated planning for climate change mitigation and sustainable development.

View the webinar, which occurred 24 and 26 October 2023.

24 to 26 October 2023
Online only

Integrated planning is essential to achieving the urgent progress needed on climate and sustainable development, yet easily accessible planning tools allowing the comparison of different policy options quantitatively are missing. Recognizing the interconnections of climate change and sustainable development, teams at SEI have developed tools that can support long-term integrated climate and development planning using the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP)The new tools can assess economic feedback effects, air quality impacts and land use change implications of climate mitigation policies, and be used by planners and policy makers to identify policies that maximize synergies between climate mitigation, climate adaption and development.

The webinar is intended for LEAP users, planners and policy makers.

Agenda

10 min Introduction to benefits of integrated climate and development planning

Charlotte Wagner, SEI Scientist

30 min Overview of the new toolset:

  • LEAP-Macro: a new plug-in for LEAP for national scale macroeconomic modeling and integrated energy-economy analyses
  • FOLU: a tool for assessing climate mitigation benefits from forestry, and other land use and land use change
  • AgHealth: a tool for assessing health, climate, air pollution, and environmental impacts of food production in LEAP models
  • SEI Africa model: a regional energy system and climate mitigation model for Africa

Charlotte Wagner, SEI Scientist

20 min  

Q&A and open discussion with SEI experts and tool developers)

  • Eric Kemp-Benedict, Equitable Transitions Program Director and LEAP-Macro developer
  • Chris Malley, Senior Scientist and FOLU and AgHealth developer
  • Charlie Heaps, Energy Modeling Program Director and LEAP developer

 

SEI team

Women in red shirt smiling in portrait
Charlotte Wagner

Scientist

SEI US

Eric Kemp-Benedict
Eric Kemp-Benedict

SEI Affiliated Researcher

SEI US

Chris Malley

Senior Research Fellow

SEI York

Charles Heaps

Senior Scientist

SEI US

Design and development by Soapbox.