CLEWs @KTH-dESA Newsletters
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CLEWs news in 2020
May 2020
- Second Nexus dialogue in Jordan
- A new policy brief from the H2020-DEEDs project
- New publication: a framework for assessing energy projects against the SDGs
- Serious Game Workshop - SIM4NEXUS project
March 2020
- 5th workshop in modelling CLEW systems in Nicaragua
- Second FAO Nexus dialogue in Morocco
- World Water Day 2020: “If climate change is the shark, then water is its teeth”
- SIM4NEXUS project consortium meets online for last project meeting
CLEWs news in 2019
November 2019
- Nexus Project Cluster organises workshop on “Methods, tools and data for policy support on the Nexus”
- KTH-dESA supports UfM and UNECE initiative to promote the nexus approach in the Mediterranean region
- TEDx KTHSalon: Who is responsible?
October 2019
- Energy and water implications of climatic changes on crop production in Uganda-a new publication from KTH-dESA
- Integrated CLEWs in an urban world- Lunch seminar presentation by KTH-dESA researcher
- Upcoming Nexus Cluster Workshop on Methods, tools and data for policy support on the Nexus
July 2019
- SIM4NEXUS consortium meets in Riga, Latvia, for their 4th project meeting
- A new article in Nature Sustainability investigates what climate change action means for Sustainable Development
- KTH CLEWs paper reaches 150 citations in Web of Science!
June 2019
- 2nd transboundary workshop on the nexus assessment of the North Western Sahara Aquifer System (NWSAS) was held in Tunisia
- A new KTH-dESA publication presents a framework to monitor and implement circular economy in cities
- Third CLEWs steering committee held at the ICTP in Trieste (Italy)
May 2019
- KTH-dESA at the UNECE Hard Talk in Belgrade (Serbia)
- Workshop on the SIM4NEXUS Serious Game
- Nexus dialogue of the Souss-Massa basin in Morocco
April 2019
- Climate resilience of Uganda’s Power sector- a new peer-reviewed book chapter using the CLEWs methodology
- KTH-dESA support the Libyan and Tunisian consultation workshops on the sustainable development of shared aquifer waters
- A CLEWs publication on cross-scale impacts of local decarbonisation decisions
March 2019
- Climate resilience of Uganda’s Power sector- a new peer-reviewed book chapter using the CLEWs methodology
- KTH-dESA support the Libyan and Tunisian consultation workshops on the sustainable development of shared aquifer waters
- A CLEWs publication on cross-scale impacts of local decarbonisation decisions
February 2019
- Fourth training in the CLEWs modelling framework in Bolivia
- Recent publication on the role of energy-water nexus to motivate transboundary cooperation
January 2019
- Climate resilience of power systems in East Africa-KTH researchers publish in Nature Communications
- KTH @ UNECE Hardtalk in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- KTH-dESA participates in the 2nd high-level workshop on Understanding the Water-Energy Nexus, organised by the European Commission (EC) and the US Department of Energy (DOE)
CLEWs news in 2018
December 2018
- SIM4NEXUS project meeting in Exeter
- First workshop on Resource Nexus Policy and Cluster held at EASME in Brussels
- KTH-dESA supports the Final Report of the High-Level Panel of the European Decarbonisation Pathways Initiative
- Energy Modelling Platform for Africa 2019 - application deadline 14 December 2018. Apply here.
October 2018
- KTH-dESA authors a background paper on agriculture and the CLEW nexus for the CGIAR-Independent Science and Partnership Council’s (ISPC) Science Forum
- UNECE releases an informative summary of key lessons from the implementation of the “nexus approach to transboundary cooperation - the experience of the water convention”
- SIM4NEXUS presented in the International Conference on "Agriculture Trade and Foreign Investments for Sustainable Regional Integration in the Caucasus and Central Asia"
September 2018
- SIM4NEXUS - first stakeholder consultation workshop in Azerbaijan
- Third CLEWS workshop in Bolivia
- More nexus thinking needed in urban sustainability planning, argues new paper on CLEWs impact of nature-based - and other - urban solutions
August 2018
- KTH-dESA researchers publish in Nature
- Upcoming CLEWs workshop in Bolivia
- First CLEWs steering committee meeting
May 2018
- Second training in the CLEWs modelling framework in Bolivia
- CLEWs to support the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions: workshop in Addis Ababa
- First CLEWs workshop in Ghana focuses on modelling the national energy system
April 2018
- KTH-dESA @ Second Nexus Conference at Chapel Hill in North Carolina (USA)
- Nexus Cluster event in Athens
- First stakeholder workshop on the Nexus in Sweden by Uppsala University
March 2018
- Dissemination meetings of the CLEWs analysis in Nicaragua
- Assessing the climate, land use, food, energy and water nexus of Sweden - first stakeholder workshop on April 18
- 3rd SIM4NEXUS Project Meeting held in Athens in March 2018
- World Water Day 2018 seminar organised by SIWI Swedish Water House in Stockholm
February 2018
- Summer School on Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development - OpTIMUS, 4th to 29th June, 2018. ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
- CLEWs Framework as part of a PhD course at Politecnico di Milano, Italy
January 2018
- Workshop on Modelling the Water-Energy Nexus, Zurich, 13th December 2017
- UNECE Nexus assessment report of the Drina River basin available online
- KTH-dESA takes part in FAO preliminary mission in Jordan
CLEWs news in 2017
December 2017
- KTH-dESA at the 10th meeting of the IAMC in Recife, Brazil
- CLEWs framework and the UNECE Transboundary Nexus methodology presented at WssTP meeting in Brussels
- Capacity building in CLEWs starts in Bolivia
- Lecture on integrated assessments and the CLEWs approach in collaboration with the University of Peru Cayetano Heredia
November 2017
- CLEWs at COP 23 side event on Energy Policy Trade-offs within the Broader Sustainable Development Challenge
- Furthering capacity building in CLEWs - third workshop in Nicaragua
- KTH-dESA’s analytical tools at the 5th UNECE task force meeting
- COP23 SIM4NEXUS side-event with UNIDO
October 2017
- CLEWs in the United Nation’s Acceleration Toolkit
- New publication in Energy Policy sheds light on the interlinkages between energy access and agriculture
- Save the Date: CLEWs at COP23 in Bonn on November 10th
September 2017
- Lecture on Integrated Assessment at the ISES 2017
- New publication on Discrete Optimization Modelling for the CLEWs Nexus
- Capacity building and knowledge sharing - insights from participants in the first CLEWs School at ICTP in June 2017
August 2017
- Launch of the NWSAS nexus assessment project in Algeria
- Integrated hydrological-OSeMOSYS energy model developed in collaboration with ETH, Zurich
- Cross-scale CLEWs interactions presented at the IAHS 2017 Scientific Assembly, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
July 2017
- High Level-Meeting on Modelling Tools to Inform Sustainable Development Policies
- SIM4NEXUS workshop on Greek Case study
- Transboundary river basin OSeMOSYS model presented at the Regional Round-table “Introducing and Operationalizing Water, Food, Energy and Environment Nexus in South East Europe (SEE)”
June 2017
- International CLEWs summer school started this week at the ICTP, Trieste, Italy
- MFS projects on CLEWs in 5 African countries finalized
- SIM4NEXUS Project Meeting in Trebon
May 2017
- CLEWs work featured at the 2017 EGU General Assembly
- Final workshop on Drina Nexus Assessment in Sarajevo on April 19-20
- KTH-dESA researcher Alexandros Korkovelos presents his award winning research at the 2017 World Hydropower Congress
April 2017
- Symposium on multi-dimensional policy perspectives for the Food-Energy-Water security challenge held at Punjab University, India, from 27th February - 1st March
- KTH-dESA researcher Alexandros Korkovelos wins the International Hydropower Association’s Young Researcher Award 2017
- Study on the Resilience of African Infrastructure to Climate Change identified as the 2nd most important contribution from the WBG in Africa in the last 5 years
March 2017
- Nexus assessment report of the Sava River Basin available online
- Building capacity on CLEWs analysis in Nicaragua
- SIM4NEXUS deliverable: Scientific inventory of the nexus released in February
- Award-winning city CLEWs publication available online
February 2017
- Introductory CLEWs workshop in Bangkok
- Now online - UNECE Syr Darya River Basin assessment
- Launch of North-Western Sahara Aquifer System nexus assessment project
- Workshop on modelling tools for Sustainable Development, 23-26 Jan 2017, Istanbul - Turkey
January 2017
- 3rd Prize of the Vattenfall Energy Award 2016 for KTH-dESA Master Thesis in the implementation of the CLEWs framework
- Expanding the CLEWs framework to the Santa Eulalia River basin in Peru
- 2nd nexus dialogue of the nexus assessment of the Drina River basin held in Belgrade in November 2016
- Job Opening at the UNDESA - Senior Economic Affairs Officer
CLEWs in 2016
December 2016
- SIM4NEXUS workshop in Barcelona
- Global Workshop on the Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystems Nexus
- KTH-dESA at the NASA's International Workshop on Environment & Alternative Energy
November 2016
- Keynote presentation at the International School on Energy Systems (ISES) 2016
- Syr Darya nexus assessment findings presented at the 7th International Forum on Energy for Sustainable Development
- KTH-dESA at the DPAD/DESA and UNDP General Assembly
October 2016
- Best paper award at the 4th International Conference on Sustainable Development
- CLEWs research work on Bolivia presented at the 1st International Conference on "New Trends for Sustainable Energy", Alexandria (Egypt)
- KTH-dESA privileged to contribute to US-EU cooperation meeting focusing on the water-energy nexus
September 2016
August 2016
- Upcoming workshop on modeling tools for sustainable development 22-26 August 2016, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Recent World Bank publication on the Water-Energy Nexus in Southern Africa
- New position announcement at KTH: Assistant Professor in Energy Systems Analysis
July 2016
- Horizon 2020 project-SIM4NEXUS kick off meeting
- Expanding CLEWs to the global scale
- New position announcement at KTH: Assistant Professor in Energy Systems Analysis
June 2016
- Assessing the potential of the ocean economy of Mauritius with CLEWs
- KTH-dESA at the International Energy Workshop 2016
- CLEWs Country case studies: Kenya and Bolivia
- Swedish institutions on big data, advanced computing and models for the SDGs
May 2016
- Africa Climate Resilient Infrastructure Summit (ACRIS II, Ethiopia, April 2016)
- First participatory workshop of the UNECE nexus assessment of the Drina River basin
- Integrated approach for assessing the urban water-energy nexus presented at EGU General Assembly 2016
April 2016
- New UNECE nexus assessment: studying nexus interlinkages of the Drina River basin
- KTH-dESA contributes to the UNECE publication on reconciling resource uses in transboundary basins
- KTH partners in the H2020-Water project SIM4NEXUS
March 2016
- KTH-dESA collaborates with UNDESA and IAEA to develop a single framework CLEW model of Mauritius
- KTH-dESA builds capacity in water systems analysis in Nicaragua
- New publication: A methodology to assess the nexus in transboundary river basins
CLEWs in 2015
June 2015
- OECD Workshop on Decision Support Tools for Policy Dialogues on the Nexus
- UNDESA - Expert Group Meeting for the Global Sustainable Development Report
- UNECE Nexus Assessment in Isonzo-Soca river basin
May 2015
- Prize at the 7th World Water Forum, Daegu, South Korea
- Presentation at the 4th Thai Student Academic Conference
- New publication in assessing the possibility of hydrogen production to reduce the dependence on gasoline fuel used in road transport sector of Sweden.
April 2015
- Presenting CLEWs work in China
- Nexus Dialogue on Water Infrastructure Solutions, Beijing, China
- International Water and Energy Conference, Lyon, France
February 2015
- New Publication discusses policy responses to the water and energy nexus across borders
- Transnational Syr Darya River Basin Workshop
- Task Force on the Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystem nexus in Geneva