@inproceedings{ThemaSuerkemperThomasetal.2016, author = {Thema, Johannes and Suerkemper, Felix and Thomas, Stefan and Teubler, Jens and Couder, Johan and Mzavanadze, Nora and Bouzarovski, Stefan and {\"U}rge-Vorsatz, Diana and Chatterjee, Souran and Below, David von}, title = {Widening the perspective : an approach to evaluating the multiple benefits of the 2030 EU energy efficiency potential}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-65683}, year = {2016}, abstract = {The European Horizon 2020-project COMBI ({"}Calculating and Operationalising the Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency in Europe{"}) aims at estimating the energy and non-energy impacts that a realisation of the EU energy efficiency potential would have in the year 2030. The project goal is to cover the most important technical potentials identified for the EU27 by 2030 and to come up with consistent estimates for the most relevant impacts: air pollution (and its effects on human health, eco-systems/crops, buildings), social welfare (including disposable income, comfort, health and productivity), biotic and abiotic resources, the energy system and energy security and the macro economy (employment, economic growth and the public budget). This paper describes the overall project research design, envisaged methodologies, the most critical methodological challenges with such an ex-ante evaluation and with aggregating the multiple impacts. The project collects data for a set of 30 energy efficiency improvement actions grouped by energy services covering all sectors and EU countries. Based on this, multiple impacts will be quantified with separate methodological approaches, following methods used in the respective literature and developing them where necessary. The paper outlines the approaches taken by COMBI: socio-economic modelling for air pollution and social welfare, resource modelling for biotic/abiotic and economically unused resources, General Equilibrium modelling for long-run macroeconomic effects and other models for short-run effects, and the LEAP model for energy system modelling. Finally, impacts will be aggregated, where possible in monetary terms. Specific challenges of this step include double-counting issues, metrics, within and cross-country/regional variability of effects and context-specificity.}, language = {en} }