Africa Climate Resilient Infrastructure Summit (ACRIS II, Ethiopia, April 2016)

KTH-dESA director Prof. Mark Howells and researchers Georgios Avgerinopoulos and Vignesh Sridharan participated in a high level Climate Change summit at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The summit involved the dissemination of World Bank’s study on Resilience of African Infrastructure to Climate Change. KTH-dESA had developed detailed power pool models using OSeMOSYS for this study and linked them with water systems management models of the main River Basins on the African continent. Ministers and state representatives from different energy and water ministries were part of this summit reiterating the need for robust infrastructure planning inclusive of the impacts of the changing climate. KTH researchers along with partners from Industrial Economics Inc, Boston, conducted a one day workshop on energy systems model building using OSeMOSYS and on the importance of energy-water linkages to assess the impacts of Climate Change.