The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda poses a unique and critical challenge to the energy sector: how to scale access to clean energy to power sustainable, economic development for a growing population, while simultaneously decarbonizing global energy supply. Expanding access to clean energy...

Chapter1.Implementing the Paris Agreement: Forging Ahead Despite Challenges -- Chapter2.Storm Resilience of Chinese Cities: Ranking and Analysis -- Chapter3.Scientific Assessments of Climate Change in the Post-Paris Era -- Chapter4.Climate Change Policies of the Trump Administration and...

While the Paris Agreement provides an indispensable framework for expanding global collaboration on climate change, countries’ initial pledges are not nearly sufficient to keep climate disruption within tolerable limits. The Agreement’s mechanism to address this shortfall relies primarily on...

The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), if revised, could have a particularly important role to play, given the importance of the energy sector in relation to both contributing to global warming and providing climate change solutions.Unlike most other investment treaties and chapters in trade...

Sustainable development is basic requirement to cope up with the hazardous nature of climate change. Climate change and its consequences in our daily lives have been a universally recognized major problem since decades. We are experiencing varying weather patterns, rising sea levels, and extreme...

In this paper, we use a multi-region model of the world economy to analyze the economic and environmental outcomes that are likely to result from Paris Climate Agreement. To construct the modeling scenario, we convert the disparate emission targets for each country or region in their Nationally...

It is increasingly recognized that a transition to sustainable finance is crucial to scale up the low-carbon investments needed to achieve the global climate targets. A main barrier to portfolios' decarbonization is the lack of conclusive evidence on whether low-carbon investments add value to a...