Welcome to the Side Event on

High Services with Low Energy and Resource
Demand for Low-Carbon Pathways and the SDGs
Keigo Akimoto, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)The UNFCCC side event at the COP27
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This presentation is licensed undera Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International LicenseG20 Karuizawa Innovation Action Plan on
Energy Transitions and Global Environmentfor Sustainable Growth (June 2019)“We recognize the importance of quantitative analysis on better understanding futureenergy demand and supply and the role of innovation of both sides driven bydigitalization, Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and the sharing
economy. We encourage efforts made by the global scientific community andinternational organizations and frameworks to further refine and develop the fullspectrum of economy-wide scenarios for energy and climate models.”Note) This is also an annex document of the G20 Osaka Leader’s declaration.
2EDITS: Energy Demand changes Inducedby Technological and Social innovations
The EDITS project supported by Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry(METI), JapanThe terms: FY2020- (expectation: for five years and more)

Participating research institutes or researchers:
IIASA, AIT, LBNL, OECD/ITF, CMCC, Central European Univ., Univ. of Wisconsin,UCSB, UFRJ/COPPETEC, The Korean Society of Climate Change Research, The
Univ. of Tokyo, Osaka Univ., RITE, and others
ゴマーク（下段は、左から産業、建築、運輸、データ、定性的シナリオの作業部会）
Nearly 100 researchers including many IPCC lead authors will be involved in.
[Objectives]✓ To create a research community with a focus on end-use, demand-side perspectives that furthers dialogue
and cross-fertilization of research and policy analysis through the sharing of novel data, novel concepts,methodologies and policy analyses.
✓ To improve the state-of-art of demand modeling in environmental and climate policy analysis, via methods
and model intercomparisons and assisting the transfer of conceptual and methodological improvements
across disciplines, sectors, and environmental domains.
✓ To better inform policy via structured model experiments and simulations that assess potential impacts,barriers, as well as synergies and tradeoffs to other SDG objectives of demand-side policy interventions,particularly in novel fields and service provision models such as digitalization, sharing economy, or the3 integration of SDG and climate objectives in synergistic policy designs.

Response measures to climate change
Human Needs

Real human needs?
(Innovations will
also change them.)

Technology and social innovations including digitalization
have opportunities inducing to change this.

EDITS focus

Change of Society andBehavior

Human Activities
Energy・Material・Information／Human Activities

Energy Efficiency ↑Material Efficiency ↑ICT replace Ene./Mat.

CO2 Emissions／Energy・Material・Information

Low Carbon Energy
Low Carbon Material

Mitigation (Emissions reduction)＋low carbon information

CO2 Concentration／CO2 Emissions
Emission of Non CO2 GHG

Temp. Rise／GHG Concentration

Historical analyses and measures
mainly focus on:

CCS, CCU
Afforestation、DAC
Climate Control（SRM etc.）

Climate Engineering

Impact of Climate Change／Temp. Rise
Adaptation to Climate Impact

Adaptation

Residual Damage by Climate Change
4Source：Kenji Yamaji, 2006：「Theory of 3E Systems Analysis」, Iwanami-Shoten (in Japanese) + modifications

Low Energy Demand (LED) scenarios
IPCC Special Report on 1.5 C (SR15)
IPCC 6th Assessment
Report (AR6)LDLED
The IPCC reports show some scenarios of low energy
demands, but more comprehensive and quantitative
scenarios will be needed.
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SDGs and a low energy demand society
Achieving Goal 12 is well coordinated with achieving other eleven Goals
Responsible Consumption & Production:
End poverty, reduce overconsumption, minimize waste and environmental impacts

LED

Source: IIASA, LED scenario

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Deep emission reductions at affordable costs will be a key to achieving
multiple SDGs, and digitalization, and the related other innovations willcontribute to the achievement.

IPCC AR5 Ch.5 – Knowledge Gaps
Authors: Felix Creutzig, Joyashree Roy, Arnulf Grubler, Eric Masanet, and others

1. Better metric to measure actual human well-being
2. Evaluation of climate implication of the digital economy
3. Scenario modelling of services
4. Dynamic interaction between individual, social, and structural driversof change
These gaps will also be tackled in the EDITS project.

7Thank you very much for your attention!

Please also join a side-event for the EDITS
at the Japanese pavilion;
17 November, 10:30-12:00 (local time)

EDITS is an initiative coordinated by the Research Institute of
Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) and International Institutefor Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and funded by Ministry ofEconomy, Trade, and Industry (METI), Japan.

Keigo AkimotoGroup Leader of Systems Analysis Group
Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)
E-mail: aki@rite.or.jp

https://iiasa.ac.at/web/home/research/researchPrograms/Energy/Research/EDITS/EDITS.html
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