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20-May-2020
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The Climate Challenge and Trade: Would Border Carbon Adjustments Accelerate or Hinder Climate Action? (February 2020)
Round Table on Sustainable Development 39
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27-March-2020
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Chair's Summary (February 2020)
Chair's Summary for the 39th Round Table on Sustainable Development, "The Climate Challenge and Trade: Would Border Carbon Adjustments Accelerate or Hinder Climate Action?" held at OECD Headquarters on 25 February 2020.
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21-February-2020
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The Climate Challenge and Trade: Would Border Carbon Adjustments Accelerate or Hinder Climate Action?
The political challenge of implementing border carbon adjustments is real but surmountable, on top of less fluid technical and legal challenges. BCAs would need to be considered as part of a broader policy package for a socially just transition to a low-carbon economy, which takes differentiated responsibilities of countries and corporate perspectives into account.
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13-December-2019
English
Clean Power to Fuel Europe’s Green Deal (November 2019)
The European Green Deal represents an opportunity to put in place a policy framework to deliver on the Paris Agreement, capable of promoting deep decarbonisation. This high-level round table, sponsored by Eurelectric, focussed on clean power to fuel Europe’s Green Deal, covering pathways towards net zero emissions by 2050 and enabling effective decarbonisation, innovation and just transition measures.
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22-November-2019
English, PDF, 534kb
Chair's Summary (November 2019)
Chair's Summary for the joint OECD/Eurelectric Round Table on Sustainable Development 'Clean Power to fuel Europe’s Green Deal', held in Brussels, Belgium on 5 November 2019.
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5-November-2019
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Clean Power to fuel Europe’s Green Deal (Concept Note)
The European Green Deal represents an opportunity to put in place a policy framework to deliver on the Paris Agreement, capable of promoting deep decarbonisation. This high-level round table, sponsored by Eurelectric, focussed on clean power to fuel Europe’s Green Deal, covering pathways towards net zero emissions by 2050 and enabling effective decarbonisation, innovation and just transition measures.
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15-November-2018
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Accelerating the Development and Diffusion of Low-emissions Innovations
More is needed to shift the direction and pace of innovation towards a net zero carbon economy by moving the next generation of technologies from the lab to the market, while creating markets for existing technologies.
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2-February-2018
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Integrating Climate Change-related Factors in Institutional Investment
How can institutional investors adopt ambitious yet achievable climate-aligned strategies? A look at how policy makers and industry-led initiatives such as the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures are mobilising the financial sector to help achieve the Paris Agreement and SDG goals.
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21-June-2017
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Trade and Environment Interactions: Governance Issues
Beyond 'buying green', how governments' public procurement decisions and practices can drive low-carbon innovation
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15-September-2016
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Energy Transition after the Paris Agreement: Policy and Corporate Challenges
Delivering on the Paris Agreement entails multiple challenges related to the organisation of the electricity system, the nature of low-carbon technologies, the design of electricity markets inherited from a fossil-fuel-dominated era, and the confrontation of old and new business models. A better understanding of how these challenges translate into signals for investors is critical for a successful and cost-effective transition.