Integrated reporting:

Opportunities and challenges regarding climate and energy projections and policies and measures

Justin Goodwin, Katrina Young (Aether)

Mihai Tomescu (EEA)

11 September ǀ joint Eionet meetings: ‘Energy and environment’ and ‘Climate change mitigation’

This presentation builds on the 2017 report on Integrating Climate and

Energy Projections in Practice.

Expanding the concepts to Projections and Policies and Measures.

• This builds on:• 15+ years of GHG data compilation and reporting,

evolution of reporting frameworks and National Systems• Detailed energy statistics/data and energy measures

have always been a core component -> this community understands energy data

Our Utopia!

• Available, Clean Energy for all.

– Available: affordable, bountiful, transferrable.

– Clean: Low/Zero/Negative emissions; Zero lifecycle environmental impact.

Underpins EU’s “clean growth” & protects/enhances our human and natural environments.

Navigating to Utopia: !Data needed!

UTOPIA: Available,

Clean Energy for

all.

Expensive energy

Damaged climate

Damaged

Environment

Social

Exclusion

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No Data

No

Evidence

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With strong evidence (Good data) you stand a better chance to succeed:

• Find the best options.

• Engaging the best stakeholders.

• Implement them in the best way.

• Check they are working.

• Adjust them if necessary.

• Gain public support

• Energy Union Reporting is an opportunity to supply transparent high quality data to decision makers.

• Data engages wider stakeholders and drives collaborative action.

– Support and underpin messages on progress and ambition: Trends, Projections, Actions, Indicators, Co-benefits.

Themes and actions are linked: Integration is necessary

Energy Climate Environment

Reduce demand for and waste of energy

(Energy Efficiency)+ + + (-)

Clean, sustainable energy production

(Renewables & Decarbonisation)+ + + (-)

Improve energy sharing and security of

supply (Security, Markets &

Interconnectivity)

+ + (-) (+) (-)

Regular, Reliable data is needed to mobilise decisive action across this and track progress.

Themes

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Why are we integrating reporting?

• Maximising the synergies and minimising the trade-offs of action

• Reason 1: Joining up national decision making on actions

• Reason 2: Improved awareness, trust and understanding through comparable, analysable, transparent reliable reporting.

• Reason 3: Reducing the administrative burden (duplicative) of reporting

Perspective: Lessons learned from GHG reporting

• Existing successes (UNFCCC & EU Monitoring Mechanism Regulation)

• GHG examples of outputs from regular structured reporting.• Trends and Projections• Policies and Measures

Regular, detailed, structured GHG reporting: Benefits

• Regular trusted policy advice through transparent compilation and reporting• Identify/communicate/re-enforce messages on progress with key policy areas• Engage stakeholders• Support target assessments and feasibilities

• Standard templates, data structures/nomenclatures and updatable indicators.

• National Systems:• Pools of expertise regularly compiling data, improving data, providing ad-hoc advice

to decision makers, regular stakeholder engagement.

• Understood and constantly improving data quality

Trends and Projections

GHG Policies and Measure Reporting

Integrated reporting development and learning

• 10 – 15 years of detailed climate reporting (UNFCCC, EU Monitoring Mechanism)

• 20+ years EEA/Topic Centre work on environmental data reporting, QA/QC and indicator development: • Climate, Air, Ecosystems; Industry, Transport, Energy, Agriculture, Waste.

• New ideas for Paris Agreement Transparency (Article 13)

Reporting -> Data flow -> Data quality -> Analysis -> Decisions

Emerging good practice: Paris Agreement (hopefully)

• Narrative: The story of ambition and progress.

– Engages, Inspires, calls to action.

– “Talanoa Dialogue”

– Cannot stand without the Evidence!

• Evidence: The detail beneath the story. Builds trust and understanding.

– Tabular/Structured data: (trends, targets, actions, progress). Can be combined, analysed re-produced.

– Transparent Methodologies: Research and analytical approaches.

– Needs the Narrative for decision makers to engage

The Narrative

EEA/ETC: Experimental templates: Work in progress

• A.1: Overview:– Narrative of progress and ambition e.g. Talanoa Dialogue

• A.2: National Objectives and Targets– Tabular data. “New concept to test”

• A.3: Policies and Measures– Tabular data. “New expansions to test”. Building on MMR

PAMs & Commission templates 09-08-2018

• B.4: Current situation and projections– Tabular data: GHG Inventories, NREAP and NEEAP reporting &

parameters, MMR GHG Projections & parameter templates. “Further testing needed.”

• B.5: Impact assessment: “Further testing needed.”

Concepts for Integrated, Streamlined Energy and Climate reporting for COM (2016) 759

A.2: Objectives and Targets

• Objectives

• Targets

• Trajectories

• Structure

• Nomenclature

• Across Dimensions– Decarbonisation

– Energy Efficiency (final demand)

– Energy Security

– Internal Energy Market

– Research, innovation and competitiveness

A.3: Policies and Measures

• Building on GHG PAMs, NAPCP PAMs and non-binding templates circulated by the Commission 9-08-2018

• Description, Categorisation, status, links

• Objectives

• Impacts (Ex-post and Ex-ante)

• Across Dimensions• Decarbonisation

• Energy Efficiency (final demand)

• Energy Security

• Internal Energy Market

• Research, innovation and competitiveness

Conclusions• Action to improve European climate response, energy systems and environment is

desperately needed.

• Actions on climate, energy (and environment) are very strongly linked with many co-benefits and some conflicts.

• Good quality integrated reporting will help to engage stakeholders around action, maximise benefits and avoid conflicts.

• Common structures, templates and nomenclatures will enhance the quality and usability of reported data for decision making.

• We have seen good evidence for this with international climate mitigation action via the UNFCCC.

• EU has an opportunity to develop valuable data to support decision making on climate, energy and environment through the Energy Union reporting.

• The EEA is starting to consider the details of integrated reporting and the value and use of the reported data to decision makers.

The challenge

• To create a system where we collect and report data in a single flow and can use it for many purposes?

Pollution factors

Climate factors

Economic

Energy: Renewables, Efficiency

Data Decisions

Pollution factors

Climate factors

Economic Energy: Renewables, Efficiency

Thank you

Thank you for your attentionJustin.goodwin@aether-uk.com

Justin Goodwin

Katrina Young