Qatar TIMES - Embedding the model in the national climate policy-making process

The proposal builds on the QNRF grant NPRP13S-0204-200250 “Developing an energy systems model of Qatar as a tool to support national energy-environmental policy analysis”, led by QEERI in collaboration with Imperial College London and Kahramaa. The grant has so far produced a fully-functioning national energy systems model called Qatar TIMES. In the final year of the project, the team will conduct stakeholder workshops to define policy-relevant scenarios and share the insights generated with the model. This will demonstrate the relevance of the model to the national stakeholders, however it will not provide a mechanism for the model to become embedded in the climate policy-making process. The present proposal therefore aims to fill the gap between having a fully functioning Qatar TIMES model that can potentially be used to support the MoECC and other stakeholders, and enabling its continuous use as part of the national climate policy-making process. This will be achieved by a three-pronged approach: a) Capacity building: run workshops for the MoECC and other stakeholders, to equip them with the knowledge needed to interact with the model in full; b) Scenario development: continue to work closely with the MoECC and other stakeholders to build policy-relevant scenarios that can directly feed into the national policy-making process; c) Model advancement: continue to develop and improve the model as required by the selected scenarios.

Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU)