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Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives
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Author(s)
Moreno, Jorge
Van de Ven, Dirk-Jan
Sampedro, Jon
Gambhir, Ajay
Woods, Jem
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement are the two transformative agendas, which set the benchmarks for nations to address urgent social, economic and environmental challenges. Aside from setting long-term goals, the pathways followed by nations will involve a series of synergies and trade-offs both between and within these agendas. Since it will not be possible to optimise across the 17 SDGs while simultaneously transitioning to low-carbon societies, it will be necessary to implement policies to address the most critical aspects of the agendas and understand the implications for the other dimensions. Here, we rely on a modelling exercise to analyse the long-term implications of a variety of Paris-compliant mitigation strategies suggested in the recent scientific literature on multiple dimensions of the SDG Agenda. The strategies included rely on technological solutions such as renewable energy deployment or carbon capture and storage, nature-based solutions such as afforestation and behavioural changes in the demand side. Results for a selection of energy-environment SDGs suggest that some mitigation pathways could have negative implications on food and water prices, forest cover and increase pressure on water resources depending on the strategy followed, while renewable energy shares, household energy costs, ambient air pollution and yield impacts could be improved simultaneously while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Overall, results indicate that promoting changes in the demand side could be beneficial to limit potential trade-offs.
Date Issued
2023-01-01
Date Acceptance
2022-11-26
Citation
Global Environmental Change, 2023, 78
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/103017
DOI
https://www.dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102624
ISSN
0959-3780
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal / Book Title
Global Environmental Change
Volume
78
Copyright Statement
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
License URL
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36846829
PII: S0959-3780(22)00162-5
Subjects
IAM
Interaction
Paris Agreement
SDG
Synergies
Trade-offs
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
England
Article Number
ARTN 102624
Date Publish Online
2022-12-14
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