The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s SDG Knowledge Hub provides an update on mitigation efforts globally. Mitigation Update: Countries Progress Towards Renewable Energy Targets, CDM Enhances Access for Electricity Projects Investments in renewable energy can be a way to simultaneously achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on affordable and clean energy (SDG 7) and … Continue reading Latest developments in mitigation
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Reviewing latest developments in global mitigation efforts
Virginia Wiseman, for the International Institute for Sustainable Development has provided an update of activities related to mitigation. This is part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Knowledge Hub that IISD has created. No doubt we will be hearing more in the lead up to the climate conference (COP 22) in Morocco in early November. … Continue reading Reviewing latest developments in global mitigation efforts
No time to delay
Richard Chirgwin writes in The Register about a new study by IIASA in Austria about the significant cost increase if there are delays in mitigating GHG emissions. Delay climate mitigation, escalate the costs: study Costs would escalate five-fold in next seven years Which would hurt less: a global carbon price of $US20 now, or … Continue reading No time to delay
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