Global roll-out of comprehensive policy measures may aid in bridging emissions gap.

ABSTRACT: Closing the emissions gap between Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and the global emissions levels needed to achieve the Paris Agreement's climate goals will require a comprehensive package of policy measures. National and sectoral policies can help fill the gap, but success stories in one country cannot be automatically replicated in other countries. They need to be adapted to the local context. Here, we develop a new Bridge scenario based on nationally relevant, short-term measures informed by interactions with country experts. These good practice policies are rolled out globally between now and 2030 and combined with carbon pricing thereafter. We implement this scenario with an ensemble of global integrated assessment models. We show that the Bridge scenario closes two-thirds

SUBMITTER: van Soest HL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8571395 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature