Venezia, Italy – Regular Spring Workshop

The spring 2001 meeting of ETSAP was held in Venezia, Italy, following an invitation from the Italian participant in the activity, ENEA, and was hosted by the local industrial federation Unindustria Venezia. The venue was considered as particularly appropriate in light of the vulnerability of the island city of Venezia with respect to sea level rise, an important aspect of climate change. The Kyoto Club constitutes a group of industrialists within Unindustria Venezia concerned with business opportunities arising from more sustainable economic activities. To underline the relevance of exchanges between the various levels of science, policy analysis, business and (local) authorities, a joint seminar was held in the afternoon of Tuesday 15 May. The latest IPCC reports were presented as the background against which activities like ETSAP are conducted. Representatives of the Kyoto Club and the local government presented practical examples of the kind of actions stakeholders at these levels can and actually do undertake in response to the challenges posed by climate change problems. During the regular internal ETSAP Workshop, various novel methodological developments were presented, including enhanced learning representations, Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis, time-stepped optimization and different approaches towards multi-pollutant strategies. Updates were given on the good progress made on the TIMES model and the user interfaces MESAP, ANSWER and VEDA. Furthermore several applications of the MARKAL model were presented, both in member countries and other parts of the world (Estonia, China).

System for the analysis of global energy markets: SAGE-Time stepped 
Goldstein, A. Kydes

European energy Data Exchange Network (EDEN) 
Schlenzig

Goal programming with US MARKAL: Multi-pollutant strategy development 
Goldstein

Interaction between local air pollution and global warming policy and its policy implications 
Van Regemorter