CIREG

The consortium consists of climate scientists, physicists, hydrologists, economists and sociologists from Europe and West Africa. PIK – Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Germany) leads the project, and models water resources and hydropower via a NEXUS approach. WASCAL – West African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adapted Land Use is in charge of the science-policy interface and stakeholder engagement, climate modelling, technical field work, and social media. The VUB – Free University of
Brussels (Belgium) works on the energy meteorology, power mix modelling and hydrological modelling. SEI – Stockholm Environment Institute (Sweden) works on the science-policy interface, and leads the organisation the training schools. DTU, the Technical
University of Denmark, performs socio-economic modelling and is in charge of setting up an SDG framework. ZEF – Center for Development Research from the University of Bonn (Germany), is in charge of socio-economic field research. Stakeholders involved in the project and/or using its products include West African power utilities, (e.g. SONABEL, NIGELEC), river basin authorities (Volta Basin Authority, Niger Basin Authority), and policymaking bodies (e.g. Burkina Faso’s Energy Ministry, Ghana’s Energy Commission).