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Economies around the world have been severe­ly affect­ed by the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic. Sub­stan­tial polit­i­cal efforts will be need­ed to sta­bi­lize employ­ment mar­kets and relieve pres­sure on health sys­tems. Renew­able ener­gy gen­er­a­tion can pro­vide impor­tant stim­uli for efforts to achieve these goals.

Dur­ing the first week of the COP25 in Madrid, the COBENEFITS team co-organ­ised and par­tic­i­pat­ed in diverse dis­cus­sions and pan­els. How can co-ben­e­fits be active­ly mobi­lized for ambi­tious and ear­ly action? How can just tran­si­tion mea­sures be effec­tive­ly includ­ed into NDCs? Through dis­cus­sion with local prac­ti­tion­ers, diverse NGO rep­re­sen­ta­tives and COP25 atten­dants, the mile­stones for more ambi­tious cli­mate action were defined as the sci­en­tif­ic local research on the social and eco­nom­ic oppor­tu­ni­ties of cli­mate action and the effec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion of these co-ben­e­fits. More…

In addi­tion to cli­mate pro­tec­tion, there are many oth­er good argu­ments for opt­ing against coal and for renew­able ener­gies: That’s what Sven­ja Schulze, Fed­er­al Min­is­ter for the Envi­ron­ment, Nature Con­ser­va­tion and Nuclear Safe­ty, point­ed out in a press brief­ing on Just Tran­si­tion at COP25 in Madrid on Decem­ber 12, 2019. Sven­ja Schulze and her team, includ­ing Karsten Sach, Direc­tor Inter­na­tion­al and Euro­pean Pol­i­cy at BMU, high­light­ed the remark­able social and eco­nom­ic oppor­tu­ni­ties of decar­boniz­ing the pow­er sec­tor and referred to assess­ment results of the COBENEFITS project in South Africa.

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