Innovation for Cool Earth Forum Prof Dr Georg

Innovation for Cool Earth Forum Prof. Dr. Georg Erdmann Chair “Energy Systems”, TU Berlin ICEF Steering Committee Member

What’s ICEF? The Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF) was launched in 2014 by the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Concept: Technological, financial, and societal innovations that may help achieving the goal of “Net Zero Anthropogenic CO 2 Emissions” Hosts of ICEF ü Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) ü New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) 2

What’s ICEF? (2) Products & Services ü Annual international meeting in Tokyo ü Annual ICEF Statement ü ICEF Technology Roadmaps ü ICEF Top 10 Innovations ü ICEF Steering Committee ü Website with blog //www. icef-forum. org 3

4 th Annual International Meeting 2017 October 3 -5, 2017 in Tokyo 1, 000 experts from ~80 countries expected Overall Theme 2017: Deepening the concept of “Net Zero Anthropogenic CO 2 Emissions” by technological, financial, and societal innovations Some Issues of Plenary Sessions ü ü Innovation possibilities and frontiers Global leader’s perspective Transformation pathways Next steps 4

Proposed Concurrent Sessions for 2017 Themes under Discussion ü Social system innovation ü Controlling energy demand supply ü ü ü ü Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Grid operation Nuclear energy Energy storage Biofuels CO 2 utilization Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Materials for Net Zero CO 2 Emissions ü Business action to tackle climate change ü Technology innovation and diffusion ü Indigenous and local knowledge / empowerment 5

ICEF Roadmap Projects Aims ü Sharing visions and facilitating discussions for the development and dissemination of innovative low carbon technologies Distributed Solar Storage (2015) ü Team of David Sandalow, Columbia University CO 2 Utilization (2016) ü Team of David Sandalow, Columbia University Zero Energy Buildings (2016) ü Dr. Atsushi Kurosawa, IAE Japan Energy Storage (2017) ü Dr. Atsushi Kurosawa, IAE Japan 6

Example: ICEF Roadmap CO 2 Utilization Challenge ü Commercialization potential of carbon dioxide utilization (CO 2 U) technologies The study ü ü www. icef-forum. org/annual_2016/outcomes/index. html Current state of CO 2 U technologies ü ~180 global technology developers ü Significant progress in the past five years (2011 -16) ü Momentum is favorable for four major markets – building materials, chemical intermediates, fuels and polymers ü 8 promising product categories, based on technological maturity, market promise, and potential impact on CO 2 mitigation 7

ICEF Top 10 Innovations Aims ü Create public awareness regarding innovations to counter global warming Four (five) categories ü R&D, pilot & startups, commercialization, policy, society & standards Iterative selection process ü ü ü ~150 candidates selected by ICEF secretariat ~25 candidates selected by WG 10 innovations selected by participants Results presented during the ICEF closing session Posted at ICEF website 8

ICEF Top 10 Innovations 2015 Category No Title 1 R&D French-German partnership achieves 46% PV conversion efficiency in the lab Researchers develop high-performance ionic-liquid-based membranes to capture CO 2 1 CETO 5 Wave Energy Farm commences operations in Australia 2 Pilot & Start-up 2 World's largest Superconducting Flywheel Energy Storage System test machine is developed 1 Toyota launched first commercial FCV, MIRAI Commercialization 2 Hybrid power plant with 600 k. W of solar power was commissioned in Berlin 3 Mazda releases most fuel efficient diesel car ever, Demio 4 MHI Vestas V 164 -8. 0 MW breaks power production record Challenging Policy and Standardization Researchers at Michigan State University develop transparent solar windows Europe creates a unified gas and electricity market 9

Members of the ICEF Steering Committee ü ü ü ü Nobuo Tanaka (Chair), Former IEA Executive Director Sally M. Benson, Stanford University Georg Erdmann, Berlin University of Technology Eija-Riitta Korhola, Consultative Commission on Industrial Change and adviser in EU affairs Reiko Kuroda, Scientific Advisory of the UN Secretary-General Hoesung Lee, Chair of the IPCC Richard K. Lester, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ajay Mathur, Director General, TERI, India Valli Moosa, Former Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism, South Africa Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Deputy CEO of IIASA David Sandalow, Columbia University Ismail Serageldin, Director, Library of Alexandria, Egypt Vaclav Smil, University of Manitoba, Canada Laurence Tubiana, Sciences Po Paris, France Kenji Yamaji, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) Itaru Yasui , National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE) 10

ICEF Website //www. icef-forum. org 11

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