This report, Final GHG Reduction Roadmap Report: Industry Greenhouse Gas reduction to support the implementation of Thailand's climate change master plan is part of a project aimed to assist the implementation of the Thailand Climate Change Master Plan by developing a clear roadmap
As a resource-poor and heavy energy-using society, Korea faces serious environmental, economic and social threats.
The report Renewable Energy Market Analysis: The GCC Region looks at the opportunities and barriers for renewable energy deployment in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies and offers recommendations for greater integration of renewables into the regional energy mix
In December 2015, the European Commission published the new Circular Economy Package, containing a host of initiatives to reduce waste and to increase the longevity of products and materials, but it failed to set a headline target for reducing the EU’s use of resources. Such a target could help to increase political attention and visibility of the issue, stimulate long-term ambitions and streamline the action of all actors – both public and private – towards reducing the consumption of natural resources.
In order to gain political support for such a target, this CEPS Policy Brief highlights two preconditions that need to be obtained:
- The target needs to be based on an attractive vision for change shared by a majority of stakeholders (including business and industry).
- It needs to be based on robust and consistent indicators across the EU – both on the public and on the company level.
Meeting these two preconditions will considerably ease the introduction of a policy mix aimed at fostering more circular business models.
Iran as a rapidly developing country, whose economy is enriched by oil and gas exports, has to integrate Green Economy concept into its energy sector. In order to integrate environmental concerns into energy sector, an Energy-Environment Review (EER) was considered as the mainstreaming tool capable of examining the interface between energy and the environment. The results of the EER should be interpreted, in the light of the objective of the Five-Year Development Plan in Iran, to achieve fast and sustainable green growth and accelerate the transition to a market economy. The proposed actions will promote economic efficiency, use of energy resources through a proper allocation of scarce resources, including environmental resources, so as to achieve economic efficiency and environmental and social protection.
The present paper seeks to examine the ways in which current trade policies and frameworks enable or hold back the pressing need for further development of clean energy. Based on this analysis, it identifies a set of policy options for the global trade system to support the scale-up of CETs. A first set of options is related to addressing systemic issues with a view to enhancing trade governance for renewable energy and climate policies in the context of the WTO framework. These proposals include: 1- an amendment of GATT rules; 2- temporary waivers; 3- an interpretive understanding to clarify existing obligations; 4- a plurilateral agreement; 5- a moratorium on dispute settlement in the area of clean energy.