Investigation of the potential impact of the Paris Agreement on national mitigation policies and the risk of carbon leakage; an analysis of the Irish bioenergy industry

Abstract Approaches that root national climate strategies in local actions will be essential for all countries as they develop new nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement. The potential impact of climate action from non-national actors in delivering higher global ambition is significant. Sub-national action in the United States provides a test for how such actions can accelerate emissions reductions. We aggregated U.S. state, city, and business commitments within an integrated assessment model to assess how a national climate strategy can be built upon non-state actions. We find that existing commitments alone could reduce emissions 25% below 2005 levels by 2030, and that enhancing actions by these actors could reduce emissions up to 37%. We show how these actions can provide a stepped-up basis for additional federal action to reduce emissions by 49%—consistent with 1.5 °C. Our analysis demonstrates sub-national actions can lead to substantial reductions and support increased national action.

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Designing Border Carbon Adjustments for Enhanced Climate Action

The American Journal of International Law ◽

10.1017/ajil.2019.22 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 113 (3) ◽

pp. 433-481 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Michael A. Mehling ◽

Harro van Asselt ◽

Kasturi Das ◽

Susanne Droege ◽

Cleo Verkuijl

Keyword(s):

International Trade ◽

Climate Policy ◽

Comprehensive Analysis ◽

Paris Agreement ◽

Carbon Leakage ◽

Trade Law ◽

International Trade Law ◽

Climate Action ◽

International Climate ◽

Environmental Considerations

AbstractThe Paris Agreement advances a heterogeneous approach to international climate cooperation. Such an approach may be undermined by carbon leakage—the displacement of emissions from states with more to less stringent climate policy constraints. Border carbon adjustments offer a promising response to leakage, but they also raise concerns about their compatibility with international trade law. This Article provides a comprehensive analysis of border carbon adjustments and proposes a way to design them that balances legal, administrative, and environmental considerations.

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Accounting for all territorial emissions and sinks is important for development of climate mitigation policies

Carbon Balance and Management ◽

10.1186/s13021-021-00173-8 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Anders Lindroth ◽

Lars Tranvik

Keyword(s):

Carbon Sink ◽

Paris Agreement ◽

Climate Mitigation ◽

Running Waters ◽

Mitigation Policy ◽

Sources And Sinks ◽

Global Inventory ◽

Rich Countries ◽

Climate Mitigation Policies ◽

Mitigation Policies

AbstractThe Paris agreement identifies the importance of the conservation, or better, increase of the land carbon sink. In this respect, the mitigation policies of many forest rich countries rely heavily on products from forests as well as on the land sink. Here we demonstrate that Sweden’s land sink, which is critical in order to achieve zero net emissions by 2045 and negative emissions thereafter, is reduced to less than half when accounting for emissions from wetlands, lakes and running waters. This should have implications for the development of Sweden’s mitigation policy. National as well as the emerging global inventory of sources and sinks need to consider the entire territory to allow accurate guidance of future mitigation of climate change.

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Mitigation Policies for the Paris Agreement: An Assessment for G20 Countries

IMF Working Papers ◽

10.5089/9781484373842.001 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18 (193) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ian Parry ◽

Victor Mylonas ◽

Nate Vernon

Keyword(s):

Paris Agreement ◽

Mitigation Policies

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Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America

The Journal of Economic Inequality ◽

10.1007/s10888-021-09501-x ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Guido Neidhöfer ◽

Nora Lustig ◽

Mariano Tommasi

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

Household Income ◽

High School Completion ◽

Income Shocks ◽

School Closures ◽

Secondary Schooling ◽

Potential Impact ◽

Low Educated ◽

Latin American Countries ◽

Mitigation Policies

AbstractThe shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual exercise we project the effects of school closures and other lockdown policies on the intergenerational persistence of education in 17 Latin American countries. First, we retrieve detailed information on school lockdowns and on the policies enacted to support education from home in each country. Then, we use these information to estimate the potential impact of the pandemic on schooling, high school completion, and intergenerational associations. In addition, we account for educational disruptions related to household income shocks. Our findings show that, despite that mitigation policies were able to partly reduce instructional losses in some countries, the educational attainment of the most vulnerable could be seriously affected. In particular, the likelihood of children from low educated families to attain a secondary schooling degree could fall substantially.

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