Resources tagged "low carbon development"
27 results.
Low-carbon Africa: leapfrogging to a green futureThis report demonstrates the considerable potential Africa has to achieve the win goals of tackling poverty and the threat of climate change by pursuing a low-carbon development pathway. The report argues that it is possible to lift Africa out of energy poverty without increasing Greenhouse Gases emissions. It gives examples of the potential for low-carbon energy in six sub-Saharan African co...
Progressing towards post-2012 carbon marketsThis publication discusses the role of carbon markets in contributing to low carbon development and new mechanisms for green growth. It explores how carbon markets at national, regional and global levels can be developed and up-scaled to sustain the involvement of the private sector in leveraging finance and innovative solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Ten authors with a backgroun...
Development without Carbon: Climate and the Global Economy through the 21st CenturyMost climate economics models used to guide policymakers assume very little economic growth in the poorest countries. This report examines the implications of that assumption and finds that, taking developing countries' right to future emissions as a given, economic growth in the poorest countries would require their richer neighbors to reduce their own emissions far more sharply and also pro...
Energy Trends in Developing Asia: Priorities for a Low-Carbon FutureThis report follows up on the 2007 report by examining the most recent data and trends related to primary energy supply, final energy demand, electricity generation and demand, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and clean energy investment, as well as associated policies and targets. It focuses primarily on Asia's six largest developing countries in terms of energy consumption-China, India, Indo...
Understanding Climate Change, Part 10, Low Carbon DevelopmentThis info-sheet explains the concept of low-carbon development, challenges and opportunities facing developing countries which pursue Low Carbon Development Strategies (LCDS). The info-sheet then explains in more detail Guyana's LCDS which is notable as it provides a framework for how interim payments and future REDD+ payments could be used to realign the country’s economy along a low carbo...
From REDD+ to Low Carbon Growth Strategy: An opportunity for Provincial ActionsA presentation outlining the organizational structure of the Indonesian National Council on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol and Copenhagen Accord and Indonesia's emission profile from 2000 to predicted values in 2020. The presentation then looks at deforestation in Indonesia, before detailing a framework for a Low Carbon Growth path where REDD+ fits into the CO2 mitigation area. Finally th...
Harvesting Knowledge on REDD+: Early lessons from the FCPF Initiative and BeyondThe FCPF initiative is a performance-based pilot of REDD+: this working paper reports lessons learnt so far by the FCPF's Facility Management Team in implementing, financing and managing REDD+ projects in various countries. The relevance to low carbon development can be found on p.17 which contains a useful diagram linking REDD+ strategies to low carbon development based on experience in the ...
Ghana Goes for Green Growth: National engagement on climate changeA report produced under the guidance of the National Climate Change Committee(NCCC) outlines how climate change is impacting Ghana, the NCCC's objectives of achieving low carbon growth, climate change adaptation and social development in Ghana, the supporting pillars to achieve these objectives and the next steps Ghana needs to take. It explains REDD+'s role in providing funding and how Ghana...
Policy Brief: Low carbon growth for GhanaThis policy brief is part of the Technical Assistance to the Ghanaian National Climate Change Policy Framework (NCCPF). It details how low carbon growth could be pursued in Ghana and the steps Ghana can take to identify the short term benefits of low carbon growth and how REDD+ fits into this.
The Natural Fix?: The Role of Ecosystems in Climate MitigationThis Rapid Assessment Report describes the vital contributions which ecosystems can and must make to improve large cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases. It presents carbon capture and storage through a Green Economy lens, outlining the potential in terms of natural systems are being depleted at an alarming rate. This authoritative report underlines a far greater potential across a wider suit...