10 points to save the climate – New Technology

The climate can be saved without growth and jobs are threatened. That is the conclusion of a new international report. But the next 15 years will be critical. Ten steps are needed.

     Koldioxod levels need to be lowered. Photo: Charlie Riedel / AP / TT
     

The much-publicized Stern report, which came eight years ago, compared the cost of doing or not doing something about climate change. This week presents the sequel. The project is the New Climate Economy, with Environment Minister Lena Ek as the initiator, shown in a new report that it is possible to reduce greenhouse gases while maintaining growth.

But it’s a rush. The investments made over the next 15 years will be critical for global warming should stop at two degrees. In the report “Better Growth, Better Climate” urged leaders to ten steps:

• Let all financial decisions permeated by climate change.
• Negotiating a new, long-term, global climate agreement .
• Phase out subsidies for fossil fuels. According to the report, they are six times higher than the global subsidies for renewable fuels.
• Put a predictable price for carbon.
• Reduce the cost of investments that reduce carbon emissions.
• Bet three times more on research and development in renewable energy today.
• Building denser cities with well-developed public transport.
• Stop all deforestation by 2030.
• Restore at least 500 million hectares of lost forest and agricultural land by 2030.
• accelerate decommissioning of coal power.

– It should be remembered that this is a global action list. Various decisions in various countries, says Per Klevnäs, project manager at the Stockholm Environment Institute, one of six research institutes in the world who participated in drafting the report.

The additional cost to select technologies that reduce climate risk is estimated to be 4.5 percent. At the same time got a number of positive effects as less traffic congestion and better air quality.

More and more countries are discovering the high costs of air pollution, writes report authors. Of the 15 countries that burn the most fossil fuels are estimated at more than four per cent of GDP.

– The price rises continuously to do not do something about the climate, said Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s former President and Chairman of the Commission who is behind the report.

He hopes that both politicians and business leaders will get the message that there is still an opportunity to build long-term growth while climate risks decrease.

Read report here: newclimateeconomy.report