With a deal ratified from the recent Paris Climate Conference, attention now turns to the difficult task of actually achieving national emissions reduction targets. This will involve a delicate trade-off between different policies and investments, each with varying overall welfare benefits to society and financial returns to investors. In other words, with the same potential to reduce emissions, how to select between an intervention option that is costly, but generates a substantial number of jobs; and a second one that costs less, but does not contribute to employment creation?
As governments often prioritize the former (welfare benefits to society) while markets favor the later (cost minimizing interventions), climate change and green growth policies will continue to be a battleground of competing interests. New types of data and information will be required to bridge these gaps and illuminate common ground.
The Climate Action Plan 2050 represents German’s decision to become a climate-neutral country. It describes how Germany’s national climate action goals can be achieved in line with the Paris Agreement. Areas of action include energy, buildings, transport, trade and industry, agriculture, and forestry.
This roadmap aims to describe, when possible, the main overarching goals, steps and agenda that the Building sector as a whole could share, creating the framework of a common vision for low GHG and resilient global real estate pathways.
As Uganda embarks on accelerating its economic development, the Government is taking a conscious step to ensure that growth is socially inclusive and that the protection of the environment is upheld. This study outlines the potential for green growth to support structural transformation.
The report Renewable Energy Market Analysis: Latin America offers a comprehensive review of the status and trends in the region’s renewable energy development.
The countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have been very active in promoting energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE) technologies in order to fulfil their global commitment on climate change. In the ASEAN Plan for Action for Energy Cooperation 2016-2025 (APAEC), EE and RE are key program areas to be addressed.
In this vein, examples of actions include feed-in tariffs (notably in Thailand and Malaysia) and the liberalization of the electricity market. In relation to EE, ASEAN member countries are progressively adopting Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) with EE standard and labelling programs. ASEAN member countries coordinate their energy policies through the ASEAN Energy Efficiency & Conservation Sub-Sector Network (EE&C-SSN) and the Renewable Energy Sub-Sector Network (RE-SSN). Both are composed of government agencies acting as program coordinators, and report to the Senior Officials Meeting on Energy (SOME) and the ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting (AMEM).