Dr Abbas is an Energy and Climate Researcher at theDepartment of Business Development and Technology. Aarhus University Denmark. His current research is focused on technology innovation across the domains of energy systems (including fossil fuel and low-carbon sources), transport (including mixed modes such as passenger vehicles, rail, freight, and aviation), climate change (including adaptation, resilience, geoengineering and climate engineering), industrial decarbonisation (including Distributed generation/co-generation, Process emissions, Industrial feedstocks, Industrial carbon capture storage and utilization (CCUS) and Energy storage). Currently, working with Professor Benjamin Sovacool. He has previously work at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) University of Sussex, UK and Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC) Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. He is a low-carbon development specialist with extensive experience in Climate Change and Energy policy in Africa. He holds an MSc. in Environmental Resource Management from Nasarawa State University Keffi Nigeria and MSc. Energy Policy at the University of Sussex United Kingdom. He co-founded the Africa Green Mini-Grid Community of Practice (AfGMG) and the African Partnership in Low Emission Development Strategies (AfLEDS).

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He is a low-carbon development specialist with extensive experience in Climate Change and Energy technology Innovation in Europe. He focuses primarily on low-carbon transition (electricity generation), mainly from renewable energy and non-renewable resources (gas).
He is working as a research fellow on the EU project INNOPATHS. The project INNOPATHS will resolve uncertainty in countries and regions to understand the full economic, social and environmental implications of the deep decarbonisation to which the global community is now committed. To the extent possible, the uncertainty will characterise and provide a quantification of the uncertainty that remains. It will describe in great detail a number of possible low-carbon pathways for the EU, together with the economic, social and environmental impacts to which they are likely to lead. These pathways will be co-designed with 23 stakeholders from different sectors who have already provided letters of support to INNOPATHS. INNOPATHS will suggest through this analysis how the benefits of these pathways, such as new industries, jobs, and competitiveness, may be maximized and how any negative impacts, such as those on low-income households or carbon-intensive sectors, may be mitigated. INNOPATHS will communicate its insights through the normal scientific channels and make substantial contributions to the scientific literature but will go well beyond this in terms of interactions with stakeholders, building on the co-design processes in the project to reach out to stakeholder networks of businesses, NGOs, local and national policymakers. INNOPATHS will create four innovative online tools to explain its pathways, technological transitions, and policies to different constituencies. Through these tools and other dissemination and communication mechanisms, INNOPATHS will substantially impact the climate and energy policy debates up to and beyond 2020, increasing the probability that decisions in this area will be taken in an informed and cost-effective way.
He is also currently part of the research team at the UK industrial decarbonisation research and innovation centre (IDRIC); industrial clusters' decarbonisation is critical to the UK’s ambitions of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. IDRIC is a £20m research grant until 2024 for multidisciplinary research and innovation of whole systems approach to accelerate industrial decarbonisation.