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Overview
The Center on Global Energy Policy is committed to independent and nonpartisan research that meets the high standards of academic integrity and quality at Columbia University.
What We Do
We advance smart, actionable, and evidence-based energy and climate solutions through research, education, and dialogue.
Our Team
Meet our staff and senior energy experts from government, academia, industry, and nongovernmental organizations.
The Energy Systems Modeling and Analytics (ESMA) Platform is building data-driven investment decision and engineering analytics tools.
These tools provide the evidence base to cut the ambition-reality gap from policy pledges and work toward an energy transition to actual robust engineering and investment-grade decision analytics.
The ESMA Platform conducts data-rich mathematical modeling research to inform CGEP research initiatives and programs, government, investors, utilities, and stakeholders. The research informs decision-making on future pathways and scenarios of the US and global energy system.
Mission
The ESMA team ensures world-class institutional knowledge is stored in CGEP models. Earth observation specialists gather energy and environment data, data engineers and scientists build data pipelines, and communications data visualization experts craft participatory engagement with stakeholders.
The ESMA platform delivers energy system analytics to decision-makers in a timely and participatory manner that best fits their needs.
Goals
We aim to correct the gaps and uncertainties in the current generation of techno-economic analytical models and improve the robustness of the future narratives and dialogue of the energy transition.
The ESMA platform will provide research on:
The Paris Agreement included two particularly crucial innovations for supporting greenhouse gas emissions reductions: a voluntary, bottom-up nationally determined contribution (NDC) and a ratchet mechanism.
Climate change is one of the central challenges of the 21st century. Building and linking the policies, technologies, financial systems, and markets needed to achieve climate goals is key to addressing this challenge.
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CGEP provides independent, balanced, data-driven analysis to help policymakers navigate the complex world of energy — how to provide billions more people with reliable, affordable, secure access to energy supplies, enable more rapid rates of economic growth, and sustain the planet.
To meet this goal, we produce cutting-edge analysis; convene leaders from finance, industry, government, research firms, think tanks, NGOs and academia; and inform these communities and the public about the events, trends, and policy options facing the global community.
For more information, contact Jodi Garner, Senior Director of Development at (646) 477-1776 or [email protected]
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