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14 December 2016
Research

Towards a Green Energy Economy? Steering an Effective Transition

Luis Mundaca, Lena Neij

What is a ‘Green Energy Economy’ (GEE)?

February 2019

1.5-Degree Lifestyles: Targets and options for reducing lifestyle carbon footprints

Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
This report, 1.5-Degree Lifestyles: Targets and options for reducing lifestyle carbon footprints, analyses the carbon footprint of household lifestyles and how changes can contribute to meeting the ambitious 1.5-degree aspirational target envisaged by the Paris Agreement on climate change. It analyses scientific emission scenarios and case studies from Finland, Japan, China, Brazil, and India, and proposes long-term targets for individuals’ lifestyle carbon footprints by 2030-2050, as well as low-carbon options that citizens and society can adopt.
August 2019

Reducing Food Loss and Waste: Setting a Global Action Agenda

World Resources Institute (WRI)
This report lays out a Global Action Agenda for reducing the rate of food loss and waste and thereby achieving SDG 12.3.
November 2017

The Emissions Gap Report 2017

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment)
The UN Environment Emissions Gap Report 2017 presents an assessment of current national mitigation efforts and the ambitions countries have presented in their Nationally Determined Contributions, which form the foundation of the Paris Agreement.
2 December 2020
Projects News

GO4SDGs is bringing the Little Book of Green Nudges to five regions

As part of the GO4SDGs initiative in cooperation with UNEP Youth and Education Alliance, the The Little Book of Green Nudges offers simple and easy ways for students and staff at universities worldwide to adopt more sustainable practices.
15 March 2018
Online

OECD Green Talks LIVE - Leveraging the smart grid to optimise energy consumption

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
On 15 March 2018 (11:00 EST), the OECD is holding a webinar on "Green Talks LIVE - Leveraging the smart grid to optimise energy consumption".
May 2019

Measuring Fossil Fuel Subsidies in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), OECD, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
This report Measuring Fossil Fuel Subsidies in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals provides methodological guidance for measuring fossil fuel subsidies in the context of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 12.c.1: “Amount of fossil fuel subsidies per unit of GDP (production and consumption)”.
March 2017

The Environmental Goods Agreement: How Would US Households Fare?

International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)

The Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA), initiated in 2014, is intended to reduce tariffs on a list of goods by the signatories, after which concessions will be extended to all WTO members based on the most-favoured-nation principle.

May 2010

Priority Products and Materials: Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and Production

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), International Resource Panel (IRP)

The environmental and health sciences have brought important insights into the connection of environmental pressures and ecosystem damages.

3 March 2021

The benefits of a circular economy for effective climate action and society

Janez Potočnik, Julia Okatz
"The only chance of reaching the 2030 and 2050 global climate goals is to deploy all possible measures possible to defy the business-as-usual scenario. This is where natural resources management, and the circular economy, as an important instrument, comes into play," said Janez Potocnik, Co-Chair of the International Resource Panel, and Julia Okatz, Associate at SYSTEMIQ.

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