Circular Carbon Economy (CCE) Index – Regional Launch and Workshop

Rim Berahab, Senior Economist at the Policy Center for the New South, will participate in a workshop titled “Circular Carbon Economy (CCE) Index – Regional Launch and Workshop”. This workshop is sponsored by KAPSARC at Expo 2020 Dubai as a part of the Saudi Energy event series. The workshop will be held on Thursday, March 17, 2022, at 9:00 am – 2:00 pm in the Dubai Exhibition Center (Expo), Dubai, UAE.

This workshop, convened by KAPSARC’s Circular Carbon Economy Index project, aims to bring together energy and climate change policy researchers and practitioners from the Gulf region and beyond to discuss net-zero transitions through the lens of the circular carbon economy (CCE).  

The CCE concept provides a holistic framework for assessing options countries have to reduce atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, to ultimately reach carbon circularity by mid-century. The CCE Index is a tool for energy and climate policy stakeholders to benchmark and compare how countries are performing on the circular carbon economy at present and how they are positioned to make progress towards net-zero, circular carbon economies in the future.

The workshop will draw from insights from the CCE Index to focus discussions in three areas:

·         Countries’ climate and energy policies examined through the CCE lens

·         Holistic pathways and roadmaps to net-zero emissions by countries and companies

·         Finance, technology and policy enablers for CCE transitions in diverse contexts