This report provides a global framework and recommends an integrated energy approach, defined as “systemic efficiency”, as a solution to the current environmental, economic, health, and social crises.
This handbook shows how regional governments are reaping the immediate benefits of decisive climate action while also safeguarding the future. For these governments, a collection of key actions is driving significant impacts on the economy, equity, public health, air quality, and resilience. The handbook details five transformative actions regional governments can take to limit the effects of climate change while supporting a broad range of other societal benefits.
The health of citizens is the first priority for governments responding to the COVID‑19 pandemic, but the need to limit the economic impacts of the crisis is also of great concern. Many governments are considering how to stimulate their economies once the pandemic is brought under control. In these efforts to safeguard economic stability, energy efficiency has a strong role to play in boosting jobs and economic growth while also supporting clean energy transitions around the world.
This report summarises analyses on the implication of the Paris Agreement’s temperature limit for the Mongolian electricity supply sector, considers the health impacts associated with air pollution from coal power plants, and identifies several actionable next steps to accelerate mitigation ambition in the future.
In light of the COVID-19 crisis, this report considers the links between human destruction of nature and the development of pandemics.