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Global Decarbonization Resources

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Deadline 2020: How Cities Will Get the Job Done

Deadline 2020 was written for C40, a network of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climate change. The report presents a detailed pathway of what C40 cities need to do to play their part i...

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World Bank Report, Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future

Decarbonizing Development looks at what it would take to decarbonize the world economy by 2100 in a way that is compatible with countries’ broader development goals. It emphasizes that countries must:...

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Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in Brazil

Following the publication of Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States, on which the ModelClimateLaws.org project was based, the Model Climate Laws team has encouraged foreign lawyer...

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Report, Mission Possible: Reaching Net-Zero Carbon Emissions from Harder-to-Abate Sectors by Mid-Century

The Energy Transition Commission’s 2018 report, Mission Possible: Reaching Net-Zero Carbon Emissions from Harder-to-Abate Sectors by Mid-Century, outlines the possible routes to fully decarbonize ceme...

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2020: The Climate Turning Point

Mission 2020’s Climate Turning Point report, co-authored by a broad array of climate advocates and researchers, surveys the necessity of peaking global emissions by 2020 in order to meet Paris Accord ...

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Report, Net-Zero Energy Systems

This research paper, originally published in Science, reviews what it would take to achieve energy system decarbonization, including parts of the energy system that are particularly difficult to decar...

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Limiting Global Warming to 2C: Policy Findings from the Durban Platform Scenario Analyses

This report presents a number of key outcomes of the LIMITS project, which was born out of the UNFCCC Durban COP in order to formulate international climate policies in the context of the 2°C target. ...

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ExxonMobil’s 2019 Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040

ExxonMobil’s 2019 Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040 includes a section, “Pursuing a 2C Pathway,” which utilizes third-party, peer-reviewed work coordinated by the Energy Modeling Forum at Stanford Un...

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Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project

The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) is a global collaboration of energy research teams charting practical pathways to deeply reducing greenhouse gas emissions in their own countries. It i...

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Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonisation in Australia

Following on the publication of Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States, the groundbreaking text on which the LPDD project was founded, our team has encouraged legal experts from o...

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Project Drawdown

Project Drawdown is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “Drawdown”— the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadi...

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Report, How To Make Europe’s Energy System Climate-Neutral Before 2050

This 2020 Solar Power Europe and LUT University report provides an assessment demonstrating the lowest cost feasible energy mix with the transitioning of the power, heat, and transport sectors towards...

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Perspectives for the Energy Transition: Investment Needs for the Low-Carbon Energy System

The IEA’s 2015 report sheds light on the essential elements of an energy sector transition that would be consistent with limiting the rise in global temperature to “well below 2°C,” as set out in the ...

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Shell’s Sky Scenario

An emissions scenario (called Sky) developed by Shell International examines the challenge of moving to an energy system with net-zero CO2 emissions and gradually eliminate emissions from deforestatio...

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Tracking Clean Energy Progress: Informing Energy Sector Transformations

The IEA’s Tracking Clean Energy Progress reports assess the status of 45 critical energy technologies and sectors and provides recommendations on how they can get ‘on track’ with the IEA’s Sustainable...