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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 solu​tions

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

November 2016

October 2016

September 2016

  • KTH-UNECE work on the Sava River basin and the Nexus Methodology presented at the Stockholm World Water Week 2016
  • KTH-dESA builds capacity in water systems analysis in Uganda
  • Urban CLEWs work featured at the first Urban Transitions Global Summit

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