Building New Alliances – Seizing Opportunities – Raising Climate Ambitions in the new energy world of renewables

In col­lab­o­ra­tion with nation­al knowl­edge part­ners in India, South Africa, Viet­nam and Turkey, the project elab­o­rates coun­try-spe­cif­ic co-ben­e­fits of cli­mate poli­cies, with empha­sis on the oppor­tu­ni­ties pre­sent­ed by renew­able pow­er gen­er­a­tion. With its polit­i­cal part­ners in gov­ern­ment depart­ments and agen­cies, COBENEFITS con­nects the social and eco­nom­ic oppor­tu­ni­ties of renew­able ener­gies to cli­mate change mit­i­ga­tion strate­gies. The COBENEFITS project con­tributes to build­ing strong alliances and low­er­ing polit­i­cal bar­ri­ers to revis­it and effec­tive­ly imple­ment Nation­al­ly Deter­mined Con­tri­bu­tions (NDC) to the 2015 Paris Agree­ment on Cli­mate Change.  The COBENEFITS project con­tributes to build­ing strong alliances and low­er­ing polit­i­cal bar­ri­ers to revis­it and effec­tive­ly imple­ment Nation­al­ly Deter­mined Con­tri­bu­tions (NDC) to the 2015 Paris Agree­ment on Cli­mate Change. COBENEFITS enables inter­na­tion­al mutu­al learn­ing and capac­i­ty build­ing among pol­i­cy mak­ers, knowl­edge part­ners and mul­ti­pli­ers on seiz­ing the social and eco­nom­ic co-ben­e­fits of cli­mate change mit­i­ga­tion, through Coun­try-spe­cif­ic assess­ment reports of social and eco­nom­ic co-ben­e­fits of renew­able pow­er gen­er­a­tion Train­ing mate­ri­als, online cours­es and face-to-face train­ings on seiz­ing co-ben­e­fits of renew­able pow­er gen­er­a­tion Pol­i­cy dia­logue ses­sions on enabling polit­i­cal envi­ron­ments and over­com­ing bar­ri­ers to seize the co-ben­e­fits Strate­gies to con­nect­ing co-ben­e­fits of cli­mate change mit­i­ga­tion with cli­mate action plans, the Paris Ambi­tion Mech­a­nism and MRV schemes to sup­port nation­al NDC implementation.

Year of publication
2017

Quote
Hel­gen­berg­er, S., Gürtler, K., Bor­bonus, S., Okun­lo­la, A., Jänicke, M. (2017): Mobi­liz­ing the co-ben­e­fits of cli­mate change mit­i­ga­tion: Build­ing New Alliances – Seiz­ing Oppor­tu­ni­ties – Rais­ing Cli­mate Ambi­tions in the new ener­gy world of renew­ables. — COBENEFITS Impulse (Pol­i­cy Paper), Novem­ber 2017.DOI:
DOI: 10.2312/iass.2017.021

Link
http://publications.iass-potsdam.de/pubman/item/escidoc:2892889:9/component/escidoc:2892890/IASS_COBENEFITS%20Impulse_2892889.pdf

IASS Authors
Dr Sebas­t­ian Helgenberger
Prof Dr Mar­tin Jänicke
Dr Sylvia Borbonus
Kon­rad Gürtler
Ayo­de­ji Okunlola