Periodic Reporting for period 1 - ECEMF (European Climate and Energy Modelling Forum)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2021-05-01 al 2022-10-31
We have been actively working to create a closer European modelling community, setting an example in terms of transparency, openness and reuse of existing standards and codes that we hope will set the standard for future efforts in this space. We have published the Diagnostic Model Comparison Protocol under an open license and will do the same with the Model Comparison Protocol on Net Zero scenarios. We have published a preliminary draft of the open teaching materials online (https://www.ecemf.eu/learn/) and will develop a course for the first of eight planned capacity-building workshops which will be held at the OpenMod workshop in March 2023. Within the project, we have adopted existing standards developed in the OpenEntrance project and further improved them, rather than creating our own.
Through the reporting and dissemination of our core research activities – with the largest model comparison effort focussing on European climate neutrality - we will present a more coherent, unified evidence base that will, in turn, form a concrete basis for action by policymakers.
We are working to improve collaboration beyond Europe, which will lead to a greater influence on global energy and climate policy. For example, we have initiated a cross-model comparison between ECEMF and Stanford EMF of North America and Europe, which will also be completed during 2023.
We are on track to create a fully open-source software ecosystem for the comparison of data, scenarios and results including toolkits, scripts and data standards to strengthen the visibility and acceptance of open science in the European energy and climate modelling community and beyond.
Finally, planning has begun to establish the stakeholder network, a Secretariat, the governance structure and supporting software infrastructure to create the forum as a permanent fixture in the European energy and climate research space.