Emission Reduction Targets, Energy Security and Paris Agreement Goals: A Sustainable Solution Or An Illusory Promise?
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...