Dr Ted Christie: Environmental Dispute Resolution and Sustainable Solutions

  KEY WORDS: Paris Agreement; emission reduction targets; energy security; affordable energy; renewables;  equity; sustainable development; SDG13; scientific-round-table; ETS 1.0    To achieve the Paris Agreement goals, effective integration between energy security and action for climate change to reduce GHG emissions is crucial - but remains problematic. 2.0      The UN’s 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goal 13 for “ Climate Action ” requires climate change measures to be integrated into national plans, policies, and strategies. 3.0      A national plan for energy security and sustainable development should not only represent a power system that is affordable, reliable, and secure - but also have the optimum balance between renewables and other feasible and viable climate action options to achieve emission  reduction targets, sustainably. 4.0   A pathway for a national plan that integrates energy security, emissions reduction, and sustainable development is described. RE

KEY WORDS:  Paris Agreement;  emission reduction targets;  energy security; power systems; dispatchability;  predictability; illusory promise; national plans; equity; sustainable development; SDG13; multi-objective analysis 1.0      Commitments by governments for reducing emissions in their NDCs, to date, fall far short of what is required.  2.0      A national plan should not only represent a power system that has the optimum balance between renewables and other climate action option(s) to reduce emissions sustainably and equitably; but also the plan should lead to a commitment that can be implemented.  3.0      W ithout a national plan on how to implement emission targets into climate action to achieve Paris goals and its binding obligations, there is a risk that the targets pledged could prove to be an “illusory promise” i.e., a promise made which is uncertain, indefinite, vague or impossible to fulfil. READ MORE...

  TAGS: Energy security; sustainable development; multi-objective analysis; methodology; scenarios; objective criteria; innovation; diffusion; adoption Climate action national plans relied on to achieve emission reduction targets must be made in accordance with the Paris Agreement’s binding obligations. A problem-solving pathway based on multi-objective analysis methodology is outlined which enables sustainable solutions for energy security and climate action to be found. The methodology would facilitate the preparation of viable national plans to reduce emissions as they would be made “on the basis of equity and in the context of sustainable development” - and so comply with the Paris Agreement.   READ MORE...