Aligning the Energy Transition with the Sustainable Development Goals
This open access book brings together concrete analyses from around the world, spanning various scales, that shed light on strategies for implementing essential energy and climate transitions within the broader context of UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) imperatives. Specifically,...
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TRANSIENCE – TRANSItioning towards an Efficient, carbon-Neutral Circular European industry
The need to approach climate action, resource efficiency, and circularity performance as integrated, economy-wide, cross-cutting issues is growingly gaining attention in the policy world, stimulating the development of new industrial policies in Europe and worldwide. Currently, however, there is...
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Boon and burden: economic performance and future perspectives of the Venice flood protection system
Sea-level rise (SLR) and flooding are among the climate change stressors challenging human society in the twenty-first century. Many coastal areas and cities are implementing innovative solutions to mitigate flood risks and enhance resilience. Venice has recently developed a...
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Does Global Warming Worsen Poverty and Inequality? An Updated Review
The paper offers an updated and comprehensive review of recent studies on the impact of climate change, particularly global warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies consistently find...
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CRiceS – Climate Relevant interactions and feedbacks: the key role of sea ice and Snow in the polar and global climate system
The Arctic and Antarctic regions are experiencing rapid and unprecedented changes due to polar and global climate change, clearly caused by anthropogenic activities. 21st century projections show substantial decrease of sea ice in both Arctic and Antarctic, which are...
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WILIAM – Within Limits Integrated Assessment Model
The WILIAM model (Within Limits Integrated Assessment Model) is a new IAM in the final stage of development within the H2020-LOCOMOTION project. WILIAM is a system dynamics developed model that has been designed based on MEDEAS models to address constraints in the field of IAMs....
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Coal transitions—part 2: phase-out dynamics in global long-term mitigation scenarios
A rapid phase-out of unabated coal use is essential to limit global warming to below 2 °C. This review presents a comprehensive assessment of coal transitions in mitigation scenarios consistent with the Paris Agreement, using data from more than...
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Global Energy System Transitions
Energy systems power the world’s economies. They are pivotal to providing sustained economic prosperity that provides the goods and services that humans desire. Climate change is intimately linked with energy systems because CO2 from fossil fuel use is the most...
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Advancing participatory energy systems modelling
Energy system models are important tools to guide our understanding of current and future carbon dioxide emissions as well as to inform strategies for emissions reduction. These models offer a vital evidence base that increasingly underpins energy and climate policies in...
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UPTAKE – Bridging current knowledge gaps to enable the UPTAKE of carbon dioxide removal methods
UPTAKE aims to facilitate the sustainable upscaling of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods by developing a set of robust strategies through technical, theoretical, and practical analysis accompanied by interactive dialogue within a CDR stakeholder forum. As a result, UPTAKE...
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