International Development
Helping governments tackle complex challenges related to climate change and sustainable development
Multi-disciplinary climate change support
We are at the forefront of efforts by governments and international donors to understand the implications of climate change, and to develop effective strategies, policies and measures that make demonstrable impacts on the ground.
Working closely with international agencies, we help to deliver climate mitigation, adaptation and governance policies, as well as financial readiness design and implementation policies that help nations to realise their climate commitments and increase their ambitions.
We also assist countries in implementing their climate commitments under the Paris Agreement - Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) - including the development of NDC implementation plans, sectoral action plans (e.g. for power, transport, industry etc.), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and climate investment plans to enable countries to raise finance from public and private sources.
Projects
Under2 Coalition: Climate Footprint Project
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UK Technical Assistance Programme for LEAF
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Why I’m hopeful about Southeast Asia’s air quality challenge
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Power sector planning
Our teams have specialist expertise in the business and technical issues involved in connecting renewable and conventional energy technologies into existing energy networks - whether large hydropower schemes, conventional thermal power stations or dispersed generation projects such as wind farms and biomass-fired plants.
We provide world-leading, smart-grid solutions to optimise connections and network performance. Our power sector planning support includes:
- Least-cost generation expansion planning studies.
- Appraising heat and electricity generation projects from conventional fuels and renewable energy sources
- Electricity system planning
- Master planning/integrated resource planning (IRP) studies.
- Supply/demand forecasting
- Power system operations support - generation scheduling, automatic generation control, operating reserves, ancillary services, frequency control, under-frequency load shedding, governor control, technical training and smart grids.
- Energy investment analysis.
- Utility asset planning and optimisation.
- Rural electrification - design of funding and tariff mechanisms, and commercial arrangements.
International Development Resources
