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Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement are the two transformative agendas, which set the benchmarks for nations to address urgent social, economic and environmental challenges. Aside from setting long-term goals, the pathways followed by nations will involve a series of synergies and trade-offs both between and within these agendas. Since it will not be possible to optimise across the 17 SDGs while simultaneously transitioning to low-carbon societies, it will be necessary to implement policies to address the most critical aspects of the agendas and understand the implications for the other dimensions. Here, we rely on a modelling exercise to analyse the long-term implications of a variety of Paris-compliant mitigation strategies suggested in the recent scientific literature on multiple dimensions of the SDG Agenda. The strategies included rely on technological solutions such as renewable energy deployment or carbon capture and storage, nature-based solutions such as afforestation and behavioural changes in the demand side. Results for a selection of energy-environment SDGs suggest that some mitigation pathways could have negative implications on food and water prices, forest cover and increase pressure on water resources depending on the strategy followed, while renewable energy shares, household energy costs, ambient air pollution and yield impacts could be improved simultaneously while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Overall, results indicate that promoting changes in the demand side could be beneficial to limit potential trade-offs. ; This research is supported by the Basque Government through the BERC 2018–2021 and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness MINECO through BC3 María de Maeztu excellence accreditation MDM-2017-0714. Jorge Moreno, Dirk-Jan Van de Ven, Ajay Gambhir and Mikel González-Eguino acknowledge financial support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 820846 (PARIS REINFORCE project). ...
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement are the two transformative agendas, which set the benchmarks for nations to address urgent social, economic and environmental challenges. Aside from setting long-term goals, the pathways followed by nations will involve a series of synergies and trade-offs both between and within these agendas. Since it will not be possible to optimise across the 17 SDGs while simultaneously transitioning to low-carbon societies, it will be necessary to implement policies to address the most critical aspects of the agendas and understand the implications for the other dimensions. Here, we rely on a modelling exercise to analyse the long-term implications of a variety of Paris-compliant mitigation strategies suggested in the recent scientific literature on multiple dimensions of the SDG Agenda. The strategies included rely on technological solutions such as renewable energy deployment or carbon capture and storage, nature-based solutions such as afforestation and behavioural changes in the demand side. Results for a selection of energy-environment SDGs suggest that some mitigation pathways could have negative implications on food and water prices, forest cover and increase pressure on water resources depending on the strategy followed, while renewable energy shares, household energy costs, ambient air pollution and yield impacts could be improved simultaneously while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Overall, results indicate that promoting changes in the demand side could be beneficial to limit potential trade-offs. ; This research is supported by the Basque Government through the BERC 2018–2021 and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness MINECO through BC3 María de Maeztu excellence accreditation MDM-2017-0714. Jorge Moreno, Dirk-Jan Van de Ven, Ajay Gambhir and Mikel González-Eguino acknowledge financial support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 820846 (PARIS REINFORCE project). ...
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives
Moreno Membrillera, Jorge (author) / Van de Ven, Dirk-Jan Petrus Adrianus (author) / Sampedro Martínez de Estívariz, Jon (author) / Gambhir, Ajay (author) / Woods, Jem (author) / González Ruiz de Eguino, Miguel (author) / European Commission
2023-01-01
doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102624
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
IAM , synergies , synergies Trade-offs , SDG , Interaction , trade-offs , Paris agreement
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