Center for Policy Research: Policy brief: Development and Climate Policy Synergies: Insights from Global Modelling Studies

The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) have published a policy brief titled "Development and Climate Policy Synergies: Insights from Global Modelling Studies".

India's approach to climate policy is based on amplifying synergies between sustainable development and climate outcomes, or co-benefits. However, the evidence base for the magnitude of these synergies remains limited. 

This brief summarizes the result of global models, which provide strong evidence of complementarities between climate mitigation outcomes, reduced air pollution and enhanced energy security. These results are robust across a wide range of models. They suggest there are considerable gains across multiple objectives of development policy from pursuing India's stated co-benefits approach to climate policy.

The brief is attached below and can also be accessed here.

Applications invited for Director of Sussex Sustainability Research Programme

Director, Sussex Sustainability Research Programme

Building on the success of its 50th anniversary, the University of Sussex is delivering a strategy, Making the Future 2013-18, which will reinforce our strengths as a leading research university, and provide an outstanding student experience to a growing number of students. Creative thinking, pedagogic diversity, intellectual challenge and interdisciplinarity have always been central to a Sussex education. The University has more than 14,500 students and has staff and students from over 120 countries, giving us a distinctly international perspective.

The Director of the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme is a new leadership role. An exceptional individual, of established standing and credibility in sustainability nationally and internationally, will work in partnership, initially spanning four of the University's schools of study (Business, Management and Economics; Global Studies; Life Sciences; and Law, Politics and Sociology) together with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), to develop a world-leading interdisciplinary programme in sustainability research addressing complex environmental and societal challenges related to climate and biosphere change.

Building on distinctive Sussex strengths in interdisciplinary sustainability research and policy engagement, the programme will provide a research environment in which innovative ideas, approaches and solutions develop.

The programme's activities will enhance both the understanding of complex sustainability challenges, and the approaches through which more sustainable development pathways may be negotiated.

Ideal candidates will be proven academic leaders who have internationally recognised research distinction in sustainability, across natural, applied and social sciences. Experience of attracting and managing large funds, galvanising academics across a range of disciplines and liaising effectively with external parties will be essential.

The role will be based at the University of Sussex, and the remuneration package will be commensurate with the significance of the appointment and the calibre of the successful applicant.

For more information, please visit www.minervasearch.com/sussex

To apply, please send a covering letter, cv and completed equal opportunities form to sussex@minervasearch.com by 04 September 2015.

 

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/237

Launch of Perspectives 2015: Transformational Change for Low Carbon and Sustainable Development

We are happy to announce that the 2015 edition of Perspectives Transformational Change for Low Carbon and Sustainable Development is now available for download.

The publication contributes to the understanding of how transformational change towards
low-carbon development has already taken place or is being planned in five developed and developing countries. Informed by theories of sustainability transitions, country experts from Brazil, Colombia, Denmark, Germany, and South Africa reflect on the dynamics and
challenges of processes of transformational change in the sub-sectors of wind power, renewable energy, deforestation, transport and state-owned companies.

The Perspectives 2015 publication is a result of collaboration between the NAMA Partnership Working Group on Sustainable Development (WG-SD) and the International Partnership on Mitigation and MRV. The objective of these partnerships is to enhance collaboration and the complementarity of activities by multilateral, bilateral and other organizations to accelerate support to developing countries in preparing and implementing their Low-Emission Development Strategies (LEDS), NAMAs, measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) systems and INDCs. For more information on these partnerships, visit www.namapartnership.org  and www.mitigationpartnership.net
Editors of Perspectives 2015: Karen Holm Olsen & Jørgen Fenhann, both UNEP DTU Partnership (UDP)

For download:
http://www.unepdtu.org/~/media/Sites/Uneprisoe/Publications%20(Pdfs)/Perspectives%202015%20-%20web.ashx?la=da

or
http://www.namapartnership.org/~/media/Sites/Uneprisoe/Publications%20(Pdfs)/Perspectives%202015%20-%20web.ashx?la=da

Best regards,
Mette


Mette Annelie Rasmussen
Special Advisor, Communication & Outreach
UNEP DTU Partnership (UDP)
UN City
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UNEP DTU Partnership (formerly UNEP Risø Centre) is a UNEP Collaborating Centre and a leading international research and advisory institution on energy, climate and sustainable development.

"Consensus and Global Environmental Governance" - A new book in the Earth System Governance Series

Toward the goal of a new universal climate agreement, the December 2014 Lima Climate Change Conference called for action to achieve "meaningful and regular opportunities for the effective engagement of experts from Parties, relevant international organizations, civil society, indigenous peoples, women, youth, academic institutions, the private sector, and subnational authorities nominated by their respective countries"

In a new book in the Earth System Governance series with The MIT Press: Consensus and Global Environmental Governance: Deliberative Democracy in Nature's Regime, juristic democracy is presented as an approach to include citizens in deliberations and decision-making on global climate governance.

The book is authored by Prof. Walter F. Baber (California State University, Long Beach) and Prof. Robert V. Bartlett (University of Vermont), both members of the Earth System Governance Lead Faculty.

 

In this book, Professors Baber and Bartlett explore the practical and conceptual implications of a new approach to international environmental governance. Their proposed approach - juristic democracy - emphasizes the role of the citizen rather than the nation-state as the source of legitimacy in international environmental law. Their aim is to construct a global jurisprudence based on collective will formation.

 

Building on concepts presented in their previous book, the award-winning Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence, Baber and Bartlett examine in detail the challenges that consensus poses for a system of juristic democracy. They analyze the implications of deliberative consensus for rule-bounded behavior, for the accomplishment of basic governance tasks, and for diversity in a politically divided and culturally plural world. They assess social science findings about the potential of small-group citizen panels to contribute to rationalized consensus, drawing on the extensive research conducted on the use of juries in courts of law. Finally, they analyze the place of juristic democracy in a future "consensually federal" system for earth system governance.

 

Other recent books in the Earth System Governance series with The MIT Press include:

-       Frank Biermann. 2014. Earth System Governance: World Politics in the Anthropocene.

-       Aarti Gupta and Michael Mason, editors. 2014. Transparency in Global Environmental Governance: Critical Perspectives.

-       Sikina Jinnah. 2014. Post-Treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance.

More about these new books and all our other publications can be found at earthsystemgovernance.org/publications

Contact: Earth System Governance International Project Office, ipo@earthsystemgovernance.org

Apply for a Corporate Adaptation Prize!

The 2015 ND-GAIN Corporate Adaptation Prize application is now open! Your network contains potential recipients, and I hope you will encourage them to apply.

 

Winning Corporate Adaptation Prize projects will be based in a country ranked below 60 on the ND-GAIN Country Index and will measurably decrease climate-related vulnerabilities by enhancing food security, water access, coastal protection, ecosystem services, human habitats or infrastructure resiliency or by improving government, economic or social structures.

  

Past winners of the prize include PepsiCo, Ushahidi, Centre Suivi Ecologique, Monsanto and Novartis.  

 

Applications are due July 31, and the 2015 winners will be announced at a September awards event at Climate Week New York and to the international media.   

 

Thanks for spreading the word about this great opportunity to celebrate corporate adaptation around the globe.

 

Best regards, Joyce

Joyce Coffee

Managing Director

Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index, www.nd-gain.org

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