A global climate agreement is crucial in keeping global warming below the target of maximum 2 degree increase in this century. This will require enhanced ambitions by all Parties and need transformational change towards sustainable, low carbon development and green growth. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and its UNEP Risø Centre have in cooperation with the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) prepared the Perspectives 2013 to respond to this global challenge. The publication focuses on how elements of a new climate agreement can contribute to close the ‘emissions gap’. Six articles have been invited to address crucial aspects of a possible new agreement;
- framing of the global mitigation challenge,
- how to limit emissions from international aviation,
- a vision for the role of the carbon market to 2020 and beyond,
- how green growth strategies can contribute to close the emissions gap,
- how REDD+ can be designed in response to the crisis of global deforestation, and
- how Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) can be implemented with the example of Southern Africa to reconcile the gap between global mitigation objectives and local development priorities.
With Perspectives 2013 the GGGI and the UNEP Risø Centre aim to inspire policy- and decision makers to develop the elements of new climate agreement that will meet the 2°C target.