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  • Lack of transparency in EU national strategies leads to risks of inconsistency
    7Gen is proud to have supported the European Climate Neutrality Observatory (ECNO) in their latest assessment of EU countries’ National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs). In their NECPs, EU countries are required to describe their climate and energy targets and objectives as well as policies to achieve them. The assessment looked at five draft NECPs (Hungary, Italy, … Read more
  • Custom-built time registration and analysis system for Brot fĂŒr die Welt international offices
    7Gen conceived, designed and implemented a custom MS Excel based tool suite for Brot fĂŒr die Welt, the globally active development and relief agency of the Protestant Churches in Germany. The tool set was conceived and designed by taking the organisation’s current practices and unmet needs into account and translating these into the most efficient … Read more
  • Sustainable transport revolution protects the climate and improves health outcomes
    For the Liechtenstein Erasmus programme’s ‚Green Brunch‘, Yvonne gave an introductory lecture on the impact our transport choices have on the climate. She reminded the audience why we need to cut our emissions by >50% by 2030 and >90% by 2050 to avoid the worst impacts of climate heating. She then showed the implications for … Read more
  • 7Gen speaking on panel discussing the Climate Transparency Implementation Check during New York Climate Week
    2023 is the year of the first global Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement. With the threat of overshooting the 1.5°C limit looming ever larger, countries need to raise their game. But ambitious targets are not sufficient on their own – policies need to be implemented now to ensure 2030 targets are reached. 7Gen, in … Read more
  • The role of wind energy in the future Liechtenstein power system
    As part of an information event by the local renewable energy association, Yvonne gave an introductory presentation on wind energy. In it, she took the audience through the Liechtenstein energy system and in particular the electricity sector. She showed how the future electricity system should be designed and which role wind power could play. The … Read more
  • Launching an open access data portal to the climate data disclosed by the world’s companies
    This week saw the long awaited launch of the CDP Corporate Environmental Action Tracker which 7Gen has been creating with CDP over the course of the last two years.  The open access, interactive data portal gives companies, investors and civil society access to an aggregated data set based on climate disclosures by 20’000 companies through CDP. … Read more
  • Interview: How useful are CO2 offsets?
    At the request of the Liechtensteiner Landesspiegel, Yvonne gave a short interview on the topic of carbon offsets.In it, she explained that offsets only make sense if two important requirements are met: Offsets should only ever be used as the last step within a zero emissions strategy, and even then only for truly technically unavoidable … Read more
  • Liechtenstein’s 8th official climate report under the UN Climate Convention
    7Gen is proud to have supported the Liechtenstein government in creating the 8th National Communication under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. These reports, published every 4 years by all countries under the Convention, summarise each country’s climate mitigation and adaptation strategies and document progress towards climate targets.7Gen joined the existing reporting team, consisting … Read more
  • Climate Policy Implementation Check launched
    Climate Transparency have launched the Implementation Check Framework we developed for them earlier this year.The full manual is now available for download at Climate Transparency. The tool is designed to create an early assessment of the strength of implementation of a country’s stated climate mitigation policies, enabling timely course correction.It is now being used by Climate Transparency on … Read more
  • Key note lecture on climate policy in Liechtenstein
    Where does the international community stand in the fight against the climate crisis and what is a fair contribution from Liechtenstein in this fight? Yvonne explored these and other questions in a keynote speech at a conference of the Association of Liechtenstein’s Charitable Foundations and Trusts (VLGST). After a brief introduction to the rules of … Read more
  • Are they walking the walk? Assessing countries’ implementation of stated climate policy goals.
    In partnership with AG Energy & Climate Ltd in the UK, we have developed a policy implementation check framework for the Climate Transparency project, with support from the World Bank.The framework aims to evaluate whether countries are taking credible action on the ground to implement 1.5°C compatible policies across nine key policy areas.It consists of a six-step … Read more
  • Supporting the EU in developing their hydrogen network
    We supported the European Commission in defining its new market rules for hydrogen which were published on 15 December as part of the EC’s new ‘Decarbonisation Gas Markets Package’ proposal under the ‘Fit for 55 Package’, also known as the European Green Deal. Together with hydrogen and gas market experts from Guidehouse, Frontier Economics and … Read more
  • Creating access to the world’s foremost corporate emissions dataset
    7Gen is supporting CDP, the world’s foremost corporate environmental disclosure platform, in creating their new tracking system.The system is intended to make the vast information in CDP’s reporting system available to a wider audience in an open access portal. In the initial analysis, launched in October 2021, we find that 13% of total global GHG … Read more
  • En-ROADS Klimarollenspiel fĂŒr den Umweltlehrgang 2021
    7Gen wird am 27. November 2021, anlĂ€sslich des Umweltlehrgangs des Fördervereins Akademie fĂŒr Angewandte Politik in Liechtenstein, den zertifizierten En-ROADS Workshop „Klimagipfel der Vereinten Nationen“ durchfĂŒhren. Wie laufen internationale Klimaverhandlungen ab? Was sind dabei die Positionen der verschiedenen Interessensgruppen? Und welche Stellhebel haben wir ĂŒberhaupt, an denenwir wirklich ansetzen mĂŒssen, um das Pariser Klimaziel zu … Read more
  • India can claim climate leadership through green COVID-19 recovery
    India can become a climate leader and save a quarter of a million lives by greening its COVID recovery: Take a look at our new study! We find that by retiring coal plants over 18 years of age and rethinking its coal pipeline, India could reduce emissions below its current policy pathway by up to … Read more
  • How companies setting SBTs can help the UK get to net-zero
    Today saw the launch of our report for WWF UK on the impact of corporate climate targets on UK emissions. We have analysed the impact that UK companies have when they set and meet science-based emission reduction targets. We also answer the question of how much additional emission reductions can be expected from more companies … Read more
  • New tool to explore domestic emissions pathways compatible with the Paris Agreement’s goals
    7Gen is excited to see the launch of the Japan and India country pages in the global 1.5°C national pathway explorer of Climate Analytics. The explorer allows the user easy and intuitive access to country level emissions pathways that are consistent with the goal of the Paris Agreement. The explorer is based on cutting-edge science … Read more
  • Erste MIT En-ROADS Klimagipfelrollenspiele im Rheintal
    AnlĂ€sslich der regionalen Bildungskonferenz im Bereich Energie und Klima hat die 7Gen erstmals im Rheintal den zertifizierten En-ROADS Workshop ‚Klimagipfel der Vereinten Nationen‘ durchgefĂŒhrt, der auf dem Energie-und Klimasimulationsmodell En-ROADS basiert. Das Modell wurde vom think tank Climate Interactive in Zusammenarbeit mit MIT gebaut. Im Mai fĂŒhrten wir insgesamt vier dieser Workshops in abgeĂ€nderter Form … Read more
  • Scenarios for US and China’s increased climate ambition
    We published a major new report today with the Asia Society Policy Institute and Climate Analytics showing that President-elect Biden could table a new U.S. emissions target under the Paris Agreement of somewhere between a 38-54% reduction below 2005 levels by 2030. The report is the first attempt to model comprehensively the possible range in … Read more