SEI U.S. Center 2016 Annual Report - 1 Introduction and general center information

The use of WEAP within the Robust Decision Support approach lead to the identification of the innovative actions that were broadly acceptable to a wide group of stakeholders in the Quilca-Chili basin in Peru, the Orange River Basin in southern Africa, and the Prek Thnot basin in Cambodia. [...] Other developments of note for the fossil fuel initiative include a partnership with the equity program, which produced a paper on the equity implications of supplying the fossil fuels for a diminishing carbon budget, and a number of blogs and opinion articles, including in Carbon Brief, Climate Home, Energy Collective, and in the Seattle Times. [...] Nearly all UNFCCC Parties tabled pledges for 2020 as part of the Copenhagen/Cancun negotiations, and a broad coalition of civil society organizations have collaborated to undertake a careful science- and equity-based assessment of them, with SEI serving a core role in convening the group, providing the analysis, and preparing the report on behalf of the coalition. [...] 3.2 Policy engagement 3.2.1 How the centre has contributed to the development of SEI’s approaches to policy engagement and influence In 2016, the Center contributed to policy engagement and impact through a range of conduits: Across various projects, as highlighted in Section 2, we engaged directly with policy- makers, from advising the Governor’s staff on the design and features of Washington’s. [...] For the past three years, researchers in the SEI-US Water Group have led the development of a WEAP model that represents the mountainous watersheds that supply water to this region, the major water diverters, the Delta, and the myriad rules and regulations that control water distribution for a large portion of the State.